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My research involves the idea of social improvement and the way that plans for idealized futures are crafted from a blend of ideas about science, technology, personhood, and history. My dissertation concerns Robert Owen's communities in Britain (1800-1830s) and how these social experiments illustrate his position in both post-Enlightenment Scottish intellectual culture and debates about Scotland's cultural identity.


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Education
  • BA in Biology (Salem College, 1998)
  • MA in History (University of Florida, 2001)
  • Research, (Centre for Environmental History and Policy, University of St. Andrews, 2001-2)
  • Interests
  • History of the life and human sciences
  • History of the family
  • Modern European history, especially British history, 1707-present
  • Technology and the body
  • Natural theology, Protestantism, and Evangelicalism
  • Uses of history, memory, and nostalgia
  • Publications
  • Review of Susan Reverby, ed. Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Florida Historical Quarterly vol. 80:2, pages 260-262.
  • Review of Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. British Journal for the History of Science vol. 35:3, pages 375-376.
  • Presentations
  • "'Looked on as Hottentots': Robert Owen and the Anthropology of the Farm," Colloquium Series, History of Science Department, University of Oklahoma
  • "A New View of Robert Owen: Putting Owenite Socialism in Anthropological Perspective" at Southern Host
  • "Making Robert Owen Interdisciplinary," at the meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 24 February, 2007, Tulsa, OK
  • "'I Should Like to Know all about these Curious Things': Locke, Linnaeus and the British Child, 1790-1825" at Education and Culture in the 18th Century, 9 September 2005, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.
  • "James Watt: Barometer of Juvenile Talent" at Images of Scientific Genius JASHOPS, 4 February 2005, University of Notre Dame.
  • "Slate or Sage? The Child In Nineteenth Century British Juvenile Science Literature" at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, 27 February 2004, Augusta, GA.
  • "Bee is for Benevolence: Natural Theology in Nineteenth Century British Insect Science Texts for Children" History of Science Society, 22 November 2003, Cambridge, MA. Abstract.
  • Teaching
  • HSCI 3023: "History of Science Since Newton," Spring 2007, University of Oklahoma
  • HSCI 3550: "Science and the Holocaust," December Intersession 2006; August Intersession 2007, University of Oklahoma
  • Teaching Assistant, Department of the History of Science, Fall 2004 -present.
  • Adjunct Instructor in World History (University of South Carolina-Aiken, 2002-2004).
  • Service to Profession
  • Author of the History of Science Society's annual employment survey report, 2004-2006
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