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Congratulations:
Matthew Aberman and Eric Boyle passed their M.A. exams.
Jake Hamblin received his PhD in June 2001, ending his student days with a dissertation entitled "Oceanography and International Cooperation during the Early Cold War." He is a research fellow at the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris during 2001-2002.
Jason Kelly passed his PhD qualifying examinations and received funding for archival research in England.
Peter McDermott was "hooded" by Anita Guerrini at UCSB Commencement.
Greg Whitesides passed his PhD qualifying exams and is working on a dissertation on modern American science, religion and bioethics. He also received a grant from the NSF for travel and expenses to Mexico City in July, 2001.
Evan Widders and family celebrated the birth of daughter Ellie.
Awards and Appointments:
Sandra Dawson, whose paper on breast cancer and body image is now out for review, won a travel award for research in England where she will investigate dissertation topics. Her summer is filled with clinical duties and with teaching classes on childbirth, CPR, and neonatal resuscitation.
Anita Guerrini received a mini-grant for her new Environmental Studies course on Disease and the Environment. She also won a $25,000 grant (with Jenny Dugan and Ann Plane) from the Pearl Chase fund for an environmental and cultural history of the UCSB West Campus area.
Jason Kelly won the 2000 Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies graduate student prize for the best paper given at their meeting. Jason's paper was entitled "Sex, clubs, and Etruscan bowls: The Society of Dilettanti and public opinions in Eighteenth-Century Britain."
Mike Osborne received a mini-grant to revise the history of the life sciences series. He was assisted in this task by Matthew Aberman and Jake Hamblin.
David Schuster, studying with Professor Mary Furner, spent the last two quarters convincing an entire graduate seminar that they suffered from neurasthenia. He is now on a fishing expedition investigating physician and spa entrepreneur, S. Weir Mitchell, and the cultural construction of neurasthenia. He received a pre-ABD grant from the UCSB College of Letters and Science to investigate this topic and during July he may be found either on the Smith River in Oregon or in the manuscripts room at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia.
Vincent Spenlehauer, director of the Department of Evaluation and Accident Research at the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research, in Paris, spent winter quarter 2001 here. He was supported by an exchange fellowship created by the CNRS and the UCSB College of Letters and Sciences, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. Dr. Spenlehauer examined the recent history of the American policy sciences and how French scholars have adopted and used these ideas.
Ben Zulueta, fast approaching his degree, completed a grand slam of sorts. He won dissertation fellowships from the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the prestigious Social Science Research Council for 2001-2002. He also won but declined a UC Faculty Fellows appointment to UCSB's Asian American Studies Department.
Publications: Book Reviews
Badash wrote a review of John Campbell, Rutherford: Scientist Supreme, for Endeavour, 24 (Dec. 2000), 178.
Anita Guerrini reviewed Ferdinando Abbri and Marco Segala, eds., Il ruolo sociale della scienza (1789-1830), Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, forthcoming; Richard C. Allen, David Hartley on Human Nature, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74: 3 (fall 2000), 602-3; Liliane Bodson, ed., La sépulture des animaux, Anthrozoös, forthcoming; Anne Borsay, Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath: A Social History of the General Infirmary, c. 1739-1830, The Scriblerian, forthcoming; David Gentilcore, Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy, Canadian Journal of History, forthcoming; Roy Porter and G. S. Rousseau, Gout: the Patrician Malady, The Scriblerian, forthcoming; and R. A. Houston, Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Albion, forthcoming.
Mike Osborne sent off Liliane Bodson, ed., Ces animaux que l'homme choisit d'inhumer. Contribution à l'étude de la place et du rôle de l'animal dans les rites funéraires, Anthrozoös, 13 [3] (2000), 247-248; Christian Topalov, ed., Les laboratoires du nouveau siècle: La nébuleuse réformatrice et ses réseaux en France, Isis, 2001, in press; Bertrand Taite, Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the making of Modern France, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 76 [1] (2002), in press; Richard Drayton, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the "Improvement" of the World, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 32 [3] (2001), in press; and Patrice Bret, ed., L'expédition d'égypte, une entreprise des Lumières, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, in press.
Peter Neushul reviewed Andrew Russell, E. J. Sobo and M. S. Thompson, eds., Contraception Across Cultures: Technologies , Choices, Constraints, Technology and Culture, in press.
Publications: Articles
Lawrence Badash published "Science and McCarthyism," Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning, and Policy, 38 (2000), 53-80; and "Nuclear winter: Scientists in the political arena," Physics in Perspective, 3 (2001), 76-105. Soon to appear are "Ernest Rutherford," New Dictionary of National Biography, forthcoming; "Ernest Marsden," New Dictionary of National Biography, forthcoming; "Anti-nuclear movement," Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, forthcoming; "Discovery of radioactivity," Elementary Particle Physics, forthcoming; "Ernest Rutherford," Elementary Particle Physics, forthcoming.
Rick Fogarty returned from research in France and taught "War and Society" during the UCSB Summer Session. He is now back at work on his dissertation and recently completed revisions on Richard Fogarty and Michael A. Osborne, "Constructions and functions of race in French military medicine, ca. 1830 to 1920," in Tyler E. Stovall and Susan Peabody, eds., The Color of Liberty: A History of Race in France (Duke University Press), forthcoming.
Anita Guerrini's publications included articles on "Lady Elizabeth Hastings (1682-1739)" and "James Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton (1702-1768)" for her last contributions to the New Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford, 2004). Also in press or published are "A Scotsman on the Make: The Career of Alexander Stuart" in The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation, ed. Paul Wood (University of Rochester Press, 2000), 157-176; "Anatomizing the Renaissance" [essay review], Early Science and Medicine, 6:1 (February 2001), 35-38; "The Rhetorics of Animal Rights" in Applied Ethics in Animal Research, ed. John Gluck and Barbara Orlans (Purdue University Press, in press 2001), 55-76; and "The Burden of Procreation: Women and Preformation in the Work of George Garden and George Cheyne" in Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. Charles Withers and Paul Wood, Tuckwell Press, forthcoming, 2002.
Jake Hamblin published "Visions of International Scientific Cooperation: The Case of Oceanic Science, 1920-1955," in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 38:4 (2000), 393-423. Appearing next year will be "The Navy's 'Sophisticated' Pursuit of Science: Undersea Warfare, Strategic Planning, and the Utility of Basic Research, 1945-1956," in Isis: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influences, forthcoming, June 2002.
Mike Osborne saw into print "The geographical imperative in nineteenth century French medicine," Medical History, Supplement 20 (2000), 31-50; and "Acclimatizing the world: A history of the paradigmatic colonial science," Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influences, 15 (2000): 135-151.
Greg Whitesides, eschewing sleep while studying for his PhD exams, sent off six biographies for the Salem Press Nobel Prize Winners Encyclopedia (2000 Physics - Kroemer, Alferov & Kilby; 2000 Chemistry - Heeger, Shirakawa & McDiarmid). In addition he composed and sent off four entries for Scribner's Dictionary of American History on Bioethics, Genetics, Genetic Engineering, and Euthanasia.
Publications: Books (or almost books):
Anita Guerrini, Animal and Human Experimentation: A History (The Johns Hopkins University Press), forthcoming 2002.
Peter Neushul, along with Greg Graves of UCSB, continue work on two book manuscripts for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers which will include histories of the Galveston and Tulsa Districts. Neushul continues to refine his book manuscript entitled "Arsenal of Democracy: Science and Technology on the Home Front."
Mike Osborne, A Medicine of Place and Race: French Naval Medicine and the Emergence of Tropical Medicine, in progress.
Meetings / Invited Lectures:
Three UCSB students read papers at the West Coast History of Science Society meeting held at UCLA's Clark Library in April 2001. They were Eric Boyle, "Widening the divide between orthodox and alternative medicine: The Flexner Report of 1910;" Matthew Aberman, "Nuclear-pulse propulsion: Cold War fantasy and Cold War casualty;" and Greg Whitesides, "Science, scientists, and secularization: The development of bioethics."
Larry Badash read "Science and McCarthyism," to the Science, Technology, and Society Program, UCSD, 5/01.
Anita Guerrini delivered "Your Show of Shows: Entrepreneurs and Anatomists in Early Eighteenth-Century London," History and Philosophy of Science colloquium, Indiana University, 10/00; "The Burden of Reproduction," Gender History Brownbag series, UCSB, 09/00; "Animals and Public Anatomy in the Early Eighteenth Century," Boston Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, Boston University, 02/01; and "Duverney's Skeletons," Keynote lecture, De Bartolo Conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of South Florida, February 2001.
She also delivered comments at the following venues: Conference on Society, Politics, and the Scientific Revolution, UCLA, 11/00; Roundtable on Health Care in America in conjunction with the Tanner lecture, UCSB, 01/01; Roundtable on Anne Vila, Enlightenment and Pathology, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, 04/01; and Alan Wallace, "The Intersubjective Worlds of Science and Religion," Templeton lecture series on "Science, Religion, and the Human Experience," UCSB, 06/01.
A number of current and former UCSB History of Science Program scholars attended the XXIst International Congress of History of Science, Mexico City, July 2001. These included Anita Guerrini, Jake Hamblin, Michael Osborne, Zuoyue Wang, and Greg Whitesides. Hamblin contributed "American Scientists and Cooperative Oceanography: The Asian Context, 1958-1965," and Osborne read a paper on "French Naval Medicine and the Burdens of Empire" to the Science and Empire Commission and chaired sessions of the International Commission on the History of Oceanography and The Pacific Circle. Prior to SCUBA diving in Veracruz, Whitesides delivered a well-received "Reflections of the Tiangong Kaiwu: Science, Technology and Society in the Late Ming Period."
Ben Zulueta delivered "Forging a Model Chinese American Citizenry: Chinese Immigrant Intellectuals, American Science, and the Cold War, 1949-1960" at the Association for Asian American Studies, Toronto, Canada, 4/01.
Professional Activities:
Larrry Badash serves as a consultant to "The Alsos Library," a NSF-funded effort to create a digital library centered on the Manhattan Project. He attended the History of Science Society Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, 11/00, a workshop on the development of fusion weapons by the US, UK, and USSR, Stanford, 4/01, and another workshop on nuclear policies organized by the Los Alamos and Livermore labs and the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSD, 5/01.
Anita Guerrini served on the Clifford Prize committee (for best article) for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. As her reward she will chair the committee next year. She also organized and chaired a session on "Animals in the Eighteenth Century" at the ASECS annual meeting. Closer to home, and beginning 1 September 2001, she will Chair UCSB's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. She continues as co-book review editor of Early Science and Medicine.
Peter Neushul's research on the history of industrial hygiene is in great demand by the legal profession. This year he has visited the National Archives and National Library of Medicine and done a number of interviews involving the history of science and technology, the historical epidemiology of asbestos, the history of packaging, and the careers of Wilhelm Hueper, Alice Hamilton, and Harriet Hardy.
Mike Osborne reviewed John Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor's Reconstructing Nature for the Templeton Foundation's UCSB faculty seminar. He also chaired the session "Biological Invaders, Scientific Defenders: Entomologists and Exotics, 1776-1968" at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., 11/00, and was elected to the Council of the Earth and Environment Forum. While in Mexico City in July, he received the astounding news of his appointment as a review editor for Science, Technology, and Society. Less unexpected was his election as Vice-president for the Northern Hemisphere for the Commission on the Pacific Circle, and election as Secretary for the Commission on Science and Empire.
HOS Program Activities: Colloquia
John Cloud (Fellow, Peace Studies Program, Cornell University), "The Sword behind the Global Database: Exploring the Roots of Contemporary Earth Systems Science in Cold War Era: Secret Military and Intelligence Research," co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's Humanities and the Environment Research Focus Group, 02/01.
Martin Sherwin (Tufts University), "Oppenheimer Riddles: Love, Loyalty, and Communism," co-sponsored by the History Department's Cold War History Group (COWHIG), the Global and International Studies Program, the Global Peace and Security Program, and the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), 03/01.
Vincent Spenlehauer (CNRS-UCSB Exchange Fellow), "Studying the History of Policy Science: French Public Planning in the Post-War Period," 04/01.
Lorna Arnold, OBE (UK Atomic Energy Authority), "Coming Third: Britain and the H-Bomb," 04/01.
Keith Benson, (University of Washington), "Science, Salmon, and the Environment: The Need for a Robust Environmental Ethic," 05/01. Professor Benson also gave a lunch time seminar on public history and the history of science which was co-sponsored by the UCSB Program in Public Historical Studies.
Peter Neushul, (UCSB), "A History of Lead Pollution in our Environment,", co-hosted with the Environmental Studies 190 speaker series, 05/01
Other News:
In Fall 2001 Larry Badash will be avoiding the California energy crisis and also trying to avoid monsoons while trecking in Nepal.
Patrick J. O'Dowd, who recently completed a term as President of the UCSB History Associates, is again locked in combat with his dissertation.
Professor Lynne Stark of Santa Barbara City College spent a part of the summer with a volunteer work party on the Pacific Crest Trail in the Trinity Alps. She notes that while her history of science background continues to be of immeasurable value in teaching SBCC students, she learned the true value of Archimedes during the four hours she spent changing an oversize truck tire in the middle of the wilderness.
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