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University of North Carolina Wilmington |
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Education
University of Minnesota. Ph.D., Program in History of Science and Technology, 2002. Dissertation: “Numbers and Things: Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy.” Supervisor: Alan Shapiro. University of Chicago. A.M., Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences, 1996. Supervisor: Allen G. Debus. Carleton College. B.A., magna cum laude, with Distinction in History, 1994. Academic Positions
University of North Carolina – Wilmington Assistant Professor of History, 2006 - Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2002 - 2006 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002 - 2004 Fellowships and Awards National Science Foundation STS Scholars Award. PI for major grant (SES-0523123) to fund research project “The Renaissance of Evolutionary Paleobiology, 1970-1985,” 2005-08 Charles L. Cahill Award for Faculty Research and Development. UNC Wilmington, 2007. FESR Investigator Fellow. UNC Wilmington, 2006-07. Mead-Swing Fellow in the History of Science. Oberlin College, Spring, 2005 Grant-in-Aid. Research and Development Committee, Oberlin College, award for faculty research support, Summer 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Department of History, Oberlin College, 2002-04 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. All-University Competitive Grant, University of Minnesota, 2000-01 Graduate School Fellowship. All-University Award, University of Minnesota, 1997-98 Publications Books Re-reading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline Chicago: University of Chicago Press, under contract. The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the History of Recent Paleontology Editor, with Michael Ruse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy New York and London: Routledge, 2007. Journal Articles and Book Chapters “The ‘Delayed Synthesis’: Paleobiology in the 1970s.” In Descended from Darwin: Insights into American Evolutionary Studies, 1925-1950, Joe Cain and Michael Ruse, eds. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2009. “Evolutionary Paleontology and the Fossil Record: A Historical Introduction.” In the 2008 Paleontological Society Short Course Proceedings, Where We Are Going — Major Research Topics and New Research Across Paleontology. Paleontological Society of America, 2008. “The Emergence of Paleobiology.” In The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the History of Recent Paleontology, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. “The Origin and Early Reception of Punctuated Equilibrium.” In The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the History of Recent Paleontology, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. “Macroevolution.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology, Michael Ruse, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. “Stephen Jay Gould: Iconoclasm and the Fossil Record.” In Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, Oren Harman and Michael Dietrich, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. “Stephen Jay Gould, Jack Sepkoski, and the ‘Quantitative Revolution’ in American Paleobiology” In Journal of the History of Biology 38, no. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 209-237. “Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy” In Historia Mathematica 32, no. 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 33-59. Other Publications Book Review. Review of Daniel Lord Smail, On Deep History and the Brain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007). Isis, 2008, 99: 820–821. “Steven Stanley,” “David M. Raup,” “David Jablonski,” “J. John Sepkoski, Jr.” In Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, Michael Ruse and Joe Travis, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. “Stephen Jay Gould.” In Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, Russell M. Lawson, ed. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2008. Book Review. Review of Mark Isaak, The Counter-Creationism Handbook (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005). Journal of the History of Biology 40:4 (2007). Book Review. Review of Seth Shulman, Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006). Isis, 98:4 (2007), pp. 877–878 Book Review. Review of Martin J.S. Rudwick, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26, No. 6 (2007), pp. 35-6. Essay Review: “Worldviews in Collision: Recent Literature on the Creation-Evolution Divide.” Review of Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA, eds. William A. Dembski and Michael Ruse (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Euginie C. Scott, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (University of California Press, 2004); Michael Ruse, The Evolution-Creation Struggle (Harvard University Press, 2005); Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism, eds. Matt Young and Taner Edis (Rutgers University Press, 2005). Journal of the History of Biology 39 (2006), pp. 607-615. Book Review. Review of Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science (New York: Basic Books, 2005). Isis 97:4 (2006), pp. 590-91. Book Review. Review of Anne E. Moyer, The Philosopher’s Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001). Isis, 95: 4 (2004), pp. 697-699. Book Review. Review of Peter R. Anstey, The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (London: Routledge, 2000). In Newsletter of HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 8 (2004), pp. 12-14. Selected Presentations
Invited Talks “Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge, and the ‘True’ History of Punctuated Equilibria” To be presented as a History of Science and Technology Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, January, 2009 “The Paleobiological Revolution?” Presented as a History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium Series Talk, University of Toronto, September, 2008 “The Place of Paleontology in the History of Modern Science” Presented at the 2008 Paleontological Society Short Course, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, October, 2008 “Paleobiology—What’s in a Word?” Presented as a joint Paleobiology/History & Philosophy of Science and Technology Colloquium, Stanford University, April 2008. “The Growth of Paleobiology” Presented at annual Werkmeister Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Florida State University, March 2008. “Discarding Design?: Consequences for Modern Scientific Thought” Presented as the Mead Swing Lecture in Science and Society, Oberlin College, 2005 “Macroevolutionary Alternatives to Neo-Darwinism in the 1970s” Presented as a joint Geology/Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, January, 2005 “The Delayed Synthesis: Paleobiology in the 1970s” Presented at the American Philosophical Society symposium Descended from Darwin: Insights into American Evolutionary Studies, 1925-1950, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2004 “Catastrophe and Discontinuity in the Modern Natural Sciences” Presented as a Case Western Reserve University History Department Colloquium, Cleveland, OH, February, 2004 “Theories of Mass Extinction and Global Catastrophe in the Natural Sciences, 1670-1990: Some Historical Considerations” Presented as an Oberlin College Geology Departmental Talk, Oberlin, OH, April, 2003 Conference Papers “The ‘Species Concept’ and the Growth of Paleobiology” Presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008. “Darwin's Dilemma: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Paleontology, 1859-1945” Presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2007. “Why Not ‘Palaeobiology’?: The Comparative Success of Evolutionary Palaeontology in the U.S. and Britain” Presented at the British Society for the History of Science Annual Meeting, Kent, UK, 2006 “Countering Creationist Claims about Macroevolution” Presented at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, North-Central Section, Akron, OH, 2006 “Building the Discipline of Paleobiology: Tom Schopf as Community Architect” Presented at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November, 2005 “Paleobiology in the 1970s: Punctuation, Mass Extinction, and Quantification” Presented at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November, 2004 “Walter Charleton, Physico-Theology, and 17th Century English Natural Philosophy” Presented at History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA, November, 2003 “Catastrophe and the ‘Order of Nature’ in the Natural Sciences” Presented at the Columbia History of Science Group Annual Meeting, Friday Harbor, WA, March, 2003 “Catastrophism in Natural History, 1650-1800” Presented at the Mellon Foundation Meeting for Postdoctoral Fellows and Mentors, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, October, 2002 “Mathematization and the ‘Language of Nature’ in the 17th Century” Presented at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November, 2001 – Session Organizer: “Mathematization Reconsidered: What to Do with Mathematics in the Scientific Revolution?” “Sympathy and Identity: Walter Charleton and the Epistemological Roots of the Mechanical Philosophy” Presented at the Midwest Junto for the History of Science Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April, 1998 |
