American Intellectual History
History of Modern Science
History of Technology
Advisor(s):
Daniel Rodgers
Dissertation Topic:
Science and the Culture of Capitalism: Life Insurance in the United States, 1850-1950
Degrees:
B.S., Computational Mathematics (Michigan State University)
Courses Taught:
AMS 201: American Places
Publications:
"Knowledge of Leviathan: Charles W. Morgan Anatomizes His Whale," with D. Graham Burnett, Journal of the Early Republic 28, no. 3 (2008): 433-466.
Presentations:
“Scientific Capitalism/Capitalist Science: ‘The Science of Life Insurance’ in the Early Republic,” History of Capitalism in the United States Graduate Conference, Harvard, 2008
“The Scientific Valuation of American Lives: Mathematicians and the Foundations of Commercial Society,” History of Science Society, 2007
“The Migrating Jersey Birds: The Study and Control of Salt Marsh Mosquitoes,” History of Science Society, 2006
“’With One Voice’: Michigan State University and the DDT Controversy,” Agricultural History Society, 2004
