Course syllabi
 

Fall 2006	Spring 2007
Early Modern Europe Gender and Science Topics in History of Science/Medicine: Evolution & Intelligent Design	Science and Technology in World History
Other course syllabi	Courses taught infrequently
British History since 1688 Introduction to Feminist Studies Topics in British Culture: Victorian Britain, Ireland, and Empire Topics in British Culture: Early Modern England	First-Year Seminar: At the Frontiers of Masculinity Research Seminar: Microhistories

Below: Bone-tired (ha!) after a day of research in the Natural History Museum, London.

Research

Current projects

• writing a book about how various cultures in colonial South Africa understood nature, ca. 1750-1850
• preparing to launch a monthly podcast on the history of science aimed at a popular audience

• Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in the Industrial Age (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006).
• “What the Dogs Knew: Intelligence and Morality in the Cape Colony,” in Canis Familiaris: A Dog History of Southern Africa, ed. Lance van Sittert and Sandra Swart (forthcoming from Brill).
  
• “Using Structured Debate to Achieve Autonomous Student Discussion,” The History Teacher 37 (2004): 335-349.
• “Worlds Displaced: Projecting the Celestial Environment from the Cape Colony,” Kronos: Journal of Cape History (special issue on environmental history) 29 (2003): 64-85.
  
• “Plant Knowledge at the Cape: A Study in African and European Collaboration,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 36 (2003): 367-392.
• “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.
• “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 L. Carter (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999).
• “Swords into Ploughshares: John Herschel’s Progressive View of Astronomical and Imperial Governance,” British Journal for the History of Science 31 (1998): 419–36.

Other activities

History of Science Society (the professional organization in which I am most active)
North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa (a conference in which I regularly participate and for which I am web organizer)
Phi Alpha Theta (I advise the Southwestern chapter.)
Free School knitting course (I occasionally teach a free summer course on knitting for staff, students, and faculty.)
National Register of Archives (database of major archival material in Britain)
Georgetown Voice (where I spent way too much time as an undergraduate)
Jack Green Musselman’s home page (my partner’s web page at St. Edward’s University)

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