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Department of History and Philosophy
Michael S. Reidy
Associate Professor
(PhD, University of Minnesota, 1999)
Science and Technology; Modern Britain; History of Exploration
Office: Wilson 2-170
Phone: 406-994-5252
E-Mail:
mreidy@montana.edu
Fall 2009
Courses Hist 499R; Hist 500
Office Hours: TW 1-3pm
HSTR 282
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HSTR 499
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Research Areas:
History of Science and Technology; History of Mountaineering; History of the Oceans
Recent Publications:
Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty’s Navy. (University of Chicago Press, February 2008)
Exploration and Science. Co-authored with Erik Conway and Gary Kroll. (ABC-CLIO, December, 2006)
Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2002) Co-authored with Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon.
Supervising Editor, “Associate Laborers,” Dictionary of Ninetheenth Century British Scientists, 4 vols., edited by Bernard Lightman (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004).
“Introduction,” pp. 1-14 in Helen M. Rozwadowski and Keith R. Benson (eds.) Extremes: Scientists, Oceanography, and the Poles (Science History Publications, 2007).
“Gauging Science and Technology in the Early Victorian Era,” in Helen M. Ozwadowski and David K. van Deuren, eds., The Machines in Neptune’s Garden: Historical Perspectives on the Marine Environment (Science History Publications, 2004)
Articles, Grants, Activities
College of Letters and Science, Outstanding Teaching Award, 2004-2005
National Science Foundation, Small Grant in Training and Research, Science and Technology Studies. Co-PI, “Mile High, Mile Deep: Imagining and Modifying Topographical and Subterranean Environments,: March 2004. $300,000.
National Science Foundation, Arctic Social Science Program, Co-PI, “Maury Workshop in th History of Polar Oceanography, April 2004. $35,000.
Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, May 2003.
National Science Foundation EPSCoR Grant, February 2001
Mellon Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, May 1999
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses: Science, Technology, and Society; History of Modern Science; History of Exploration: Western Civilization; British History; European Intellectual History; Darwinian Revolution; Contemporary Issues in Science; LS Seminar; SETS Common Experience; History of the Oceans
Graduate Courses Historical Methods; Topics in the History of Science and Technology; Victorian Scientific Travelers; Writing History
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