- Ph.D. in History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.
"A Cultural History of Radiation and Radioactivity in America, 1895-1945," Ph.D. dissertation,
- Master of Arts in History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.
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"From ‘Philosopher-Kings’ to ‘Socrates on a Meter’: The Evolution of the American Bioethics Community," MA Thesis
- Post-baccalaureate study, History of Science and Philosophy: 1999-2000, Harvard Extension School.
- A.B., Music, summa cum laude: 1997, Kenyon College.
GRANTS AND HONORS
At the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin:
William Coleman Dissertation Fellowship, 2007.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Teaching Assistant of the Year, Integrated Liberal Studies Department, 2007.
Research Award for Graduate Student Instructors, History of Science Department, 2007.
David C. and Greta J. Lindberg Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, 2006.
L&S Teaching Fellow Award, College of Letters and Sciences, UW-Madison, 2006.
University Fellowship, UW-Madison, 2000.
External research grants:
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2007.
Visiting Research Fellowship, The Bakken Museum of Electricity and Life, 2006.
At Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio:
David B. Perry Music Prize, Kenyon College, 1997.
Phi Beta Kappa, Kenyon College, 1997.
Teaching Experience, UW-MADISON
History of Science Department, Lecturer:
100: Great Scientists (Spring 2007)
History of Science Department, Teaching Assistant:
201: The Origins of Scientific Thought (Spring 2002)
202: Making of Modern Science (Spring 2004, Spring 2005)
203: Science in the Twentieth Century (Fall 2003, Fall 2004)
Integrated Liberal Studies Program, Teaching Assistant:
201: Western Culture: Science, Technology, Philosophy I (antiquity-17th century) (Fall 2001, Fall 2005)
209: Introduction to Global Cultures (Fall 2002)
202: Western Culture: Science, Technology, Philosophy II (17th-19th centuries) (Spring 2003, Spring 2006)
History of Science Department, Guest Lecturer:
“Standardization and the development of the American physics tradition,” April 2006.
“Mutation, transmutation, and nuclear fear: Gojira and Godzilla,” March 2006.
“Us vs. Them! Cold War politics and film,” March 2006.
“Detecting new phenomena: X-rays, radiation, and electrons,” April 2005.
“The Rise of American Physics,” March 2005.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE, KENYON COLLEGE
Music Department, Music Theory Lab Instructor, Fall 1995-Spring 1997. Taught basic and advanced keyboard and aural exercises for Music 11-12, Introduction to Music Theory.
RESEARCH POSITION
Research Assistant, Prof. Eric Schatzberg, UW-Madison, Summer 2003. Assisted in cataloguing scholarly archive. Researched Congressional records and automotive trade publications for an ongoing project on Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
“‘Radiumac Does Wonders, Contains No Radium’: Radon-Infused Water and Early American Nuclear Culture,” November 2007, History of Science Society Annual Meeting.
“That Healthy Glow: Patient Perspectives on Early Clinical Encounters with X Rays,” February 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science Colloquium Series.
“Science Fiction and the Fear of Science,” August 2006, presentation at the Bakken Museum of Electricity and Life and the Minneapolis Humanities Council.
“Radium Tonics Revisited: The Brief Half-Life of the Eben Byers Story,” April 2006, presentation to the Midwest Junto Conference.
“The Post-Mortem Construction of the Iconic Einstein,” February 2005, presentation to the Joint Atlantic Seminar on the History of the Physical Sciences (JASHOPS).
“‘Trashy’ Histories of Science,” April 2005, presentation to the History of Science Department weekly meeting, UW-Madison.
“Towards a Cultural History of Radiation in America,” April 2004, presentation to the History of Science Department weekly meeting.
“International Crane Foundation,” Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Ohio State, 2007).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
History of Science Society
American Historical Association
SELECTED ACADEMIC INTERESTS
- The history of ionizing radiation in American nonscientific culture (dissertation)
- Chess-playing computers and the evolution of machine learning strategies
- Science popularization and the American press, 1920-1930
- Institutional and professional history of bioethics in America
- History of games and American culture
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