Science and Society Conference Papers
All papers are for conference discussion purposes only. Do not cite or circulate.
Vaughn Scribner (University of Central Arkansas) "Devastation Nation: Emotional Suffering among Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War”
Adam Bridgen (University of Oxford) "Naval Medicine and Abolitionism: The Contexts and International Influence of Thomas Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)”
Steve Walton (Michigan Technological University) "Founding the Cannon of a Nation: State sponsorship and heavy military industries in the Revolution”
Ellen Cohn (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin) "The Beginnings of American Botany"
Michael Guenther (Grinnell College) "Tale of Two Jacobins: Scientific Networks and Revolutionary Politics in the 1790s”
Anna Toledano (Los Altos History Museum) “Shipping and Statecraft: Valentín de Foronda, Guinea Grass, and the Decline of Spanish Colonial Power in the Americas”
Jessica Lepler (University of New Hampshire) “Dreams of Canals and Climate Change: Citizen Science at the end of the Age of Revolutions”
Mary Ashburn Miller (Reed College) “Restoring the ‘Apparently Dead’ to Life: Anti-Drowning Measures and Public Health in the Late Eighteenth Century”
Clare Tonks (Yale Center for British Art) “The Teeth Trade: Dentures and Dental Disease in the Age of Revolutions”
Holly Gruntner (George Washington's Mount Vernon) “Thy Industrious Neighbor:” Kitchen Gardens, Horticultural Knowledge, and Local Circulation Networks'
Cameron Strang (University of Nevada, Reno) “Pursuits of Knowledge and Happiness: Revolutionary Black Explorers”
Diego Pirillo (University of California, Berkeley) “Museums, Antiquarians and Indigenous Dispossession”
Laura Clerx (Boston College) “The Science of Settlement: Western Land Companies and Eastern Scientific Societies in the early national United States”
Sean Silver (Rutgers University) "Edward Bancroft’s Drab Revolution”
Caroline Douglas (Royal College of Art) “Edinburgh to Philadelphia: Elizabeth Fulhame and the Chemical Networks of Early Photography”
Al Coppola (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) "Science, Farce, and Fictionality: The Wonders of Katterfelto”
Mary Richie McGuire (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) “View down James river from Mr. Nicholson’s House above Rocketts: Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Observations of the Chesapeake Rivers, 1796-1801”