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History of Science Program: Recent Alumni

 

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Terry Christensen - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2006

Theoretical Physics Takes Root in America: John Archibald Wheeler as Student and Mentor. Download pdf version here

Terry Christensen is currently working toward a PhD in the History of Science at Oregon State University.
In 2007-08 he is a fellow at the Philadelphia Area Consortium for the History of Science (PACHS) and holds a fellowship at the American Philosophical Society.

Erik Ellis - PhD in History of Science, 2006

Dixy Lee Ray, Marine Biology, and the Public Understanding of Science in the United States (1930-1970).






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Melinda Gormley - Master's Degree and PhD in History of Science, 2003/2006

Master's Thesis: It's in the Blood: The Varieties of Linus Pauling's Work on Hemoglobin and Sickle Cell Anemia (2003).

PhD Thesis: Geneticist L.C. Dunn: Politics, Activism, and Community (2006). Download pdf version here

Melinda Gormley is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Willamette University.

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Kristine C. Harper - PhD in History of Science, 2003

Boundaries of Research: Civilian Leadership, Military Funding, and the International Network Surrounding the Development of Numerical Weather Prediction in the United States

Kris Harper is currently Assistant Professor of History at New Mexico Tech (in 2007-08: NEH fellow and Tanner Humanities Center fellow, University of Utah).

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J. Christopher Jolly - Master's Degree and PhD in History of Science, 1998/2003

Master's Thesis: Science, Service, and Specialized Agriculture: The Re-Invention of the Maraschino Cherry (1998)

PhD Thesis: Thresholds of Uncertainty: Radiation and Responsibility in the Fallout Controversy (2003)

 

jensenErica Jensen - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2007

"Hyterical preservationists" and "gouge-and-run bulldozer boys": the land-use controversy in Idaho's White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972
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Tulley LongRachel Koroloff - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2007

The beginnings of a Russian natural history: The life and work of Stephan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711-1755)
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Tulley Long - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2005

The Forest and the Mainframe: The Dynamics of Modeling and Field Study in the Coniferous Forest Biome, 1969-1980
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Tulley Long is currently working toward a PhD in the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University.


Kristin Johnson - PhD in History of Science, 2003

Karl Jordan: A Life in Systematics

Kristin Johnson is currently an assistant professor in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound.

 

Leslie McCabe - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2004

The Light Within Us: Quaker Women in Science

 

 


 

Leandra Swanner - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2006

The Role of Competition, Community and Priority in the Discovery of the Tau Lepton
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Leandra Swanner is currently working toward a PhD in the History of Science at Harvard University.

 

Katie Morris Zimmerman - Master's Degree in History of Science, 2006

Disciplining the Reception of Darwin: the Botanical and Sociological Work of Lester Frank Ward

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