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ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD
Assistant Professor of History, Southwestern University, 1999-present
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, 1999
CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Bernadotte E. Schmitt grant, American Historical Association, 2002
National Endowment for the Humanities six-month fellowship, 2001
Texas Council for the Humanities Community Project Grant, 2000
National Science Foundation graduate student fellowship, 1995-1998
RESEARCH AREAS
history of science, Britain and colonial South Africa, 18th and 19th centuries
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"Plant Knowledge at the Cape: A Study in African and European Collaboration," International Journal of African Historical Studies, forthcoming
"Using Structured Debate to Achieve Autonomous Student Discussion," History Teacher, forthcoming
"The Governor and the Telegraph: Mental Management in British Natural Philosophy," in Bodies/Machines, ed. Iwan Rhys Morus (Oxford and NY: Berg Publishers, 2002)
"Local Colour: John Dalton and the Politics of Colour Blindness," History of Science 38 (2000): 401-424
"Swords into Ploughshares: John Herschel's Progressive View of Astronomical and Imperial Governance," British Journal for the History of Science 31 (1998): 419-436
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