BSFS, Georgetown University; MA, PhD, Indiana University

MBH 216, 863-1595

Web Site: www.southwestern.edu/~greenmue

I joined the department in the fall of 1999 to teach the three subjects I love best: history of science, British and European history, and gender studies.

With my students and colleagues, I hope to establish connections across the often-artificial divide between the humanities and the sciences. I view history as an especially useful tool for doing this, and for jarring our complacent ideas about ourselves. In different ways, studying the histories of Britain and its empire, of the sciences, and of gender politics allows us to look critically at our own seemingly normal lives, and to grow from understanding the lives of those unlike ourselves.

I am working on two books. One uncovers how the Africans and Europeans who populated colonial South Africa thought about nature. African ideas about nature have received very little attention from historians, and I want to show that that knowledge is just as interesting as European science. My second book is an anthology of primary documents on gender and science issues. Past and current Southwestern students are contributing to this anthology.

I completed my Ph.D. in Indiana University's Department of History and Philosophy of Science. I spent the spring of 1999 as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. At Oklahoma, I began writing a book, titled Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in the Industrial Age, about how 18th- and 19th-century British scientists connected their own nervous disorders with social issues facing the sciences and the nation. This research has brought me grants from the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution (declined).

My publications include "The Governor and the Telegraph: Mental Management in British Natural Philosophy," in Bodies/Machines, ed. Iwan Rhys Morus (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002); "Local Colour: John Dalton and the Politics of Colour Blindness," History of Science 38 (2000): 401-24; "Swords into Ploughshares: John Herschel's Progressive View of Astronomical and Imperial Governance," British Journal for the History of Science 31 (1998): 419-36; and "Science as a Landed Activity: Scientifics and Seamen aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition," in Surveying the Record: North American Exploration to 1900, ed. Edward Carter (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999).

First-Year Seminar: At the Frontiers of Masculinity, Women in World History, Early Modern Europe, History of Science, British History since 1688, Women in World History, Topics in British Culture, Research Seminar: Crossing Cultures, Gender & Science, History of European Women

Free School: Basic Knitting

CONTACT:
Department of History
Daniel Castro, Jr., Chair
Southwestern University
P.O. Box 770
Georgetown, TX 78627