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Mark Aaron Largent, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director of the Science, Technology, Environment & Public Policy Specialization James Madison College of Public Affairs, Michigan State University
[email protected] • (517) 355-3441 EDUCATION Ph.D., 2000, History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota. Advisor: Sally Gregory Kohlstedt. Dissertation: ‘These are Times of Scientific Ideals:’ Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Scientific Activism, 1890-1930 M.A., 1995, History, University of North Texas. Emphasis in African-American History B.A., 1992, Political Science, Minnesota State University, Moorhead TEACHING EXPERIENCE Michigan State University, James Madison College of Public Affairs Assistant Professor (2005-2010) and Associate Professor (2010-Present) MC/FW/LB 181: Introduction to STEPPS MC 201: Introduction to the Study of Public Affairs MC 281: Immigrants, Minorities and American Pluralism MC 350: Evolution and Society MC 351: Science and Social Policy MC 375: Contemporary Issues in American Politics MC 378: Society and the Law MC 459: STEPPS Capstone Course MC 498: Senior Seminar: U.S. Science Policy MC 498: Senior Seminar: Public Health Policy UGS 200H: Honors Research Seminar: The State of Science UGS 200H: Honors Research Seminar: Popular and Professional Debates Over Vaccines University of Puget Sound, Science, Technology & Society Visiting Assistant Professor (2001-2005) STS 121: Evolution and Creationism in America HST 153: American History Since 1877 STS 202: Introduction to Science, Technology and Society: 1800 to Present SCXT 320: Science and Racial Prejudice SCXT 330: The Idea of Evolution SCXT 348: Strange Realities: The History of Modern Physics STS 354: Comparative Eugenics Movements Oregon State University, History of Science Visiting Assistant Professor (2000-2001) HSTS 415: Theory of Evolution and the Foundation of Modern Biology HSTS 419: Studies in Scientific Controversy HSTS 412: Scientific Revolution HSTS 425: History of the Life Sciences HSTS 507: Science & Christianity HSTS 507: Professional Development for Historians of Science HSTS 507: The Professionalization of Science
MONOGRAPHS Don’t Give Them Aspirin: Reye’s Syndrome and the Invention of a Public Health Triumph. In contract with Bellevue Literary Press (expected submission December, 2013). Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. Rutgers University Press, 2008. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS “Post-Darwin America,” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge University Press, in press (expected December 2012). “STAR-METRICS and the Science of Science Policy,” co-authored with Julia Lane. Review of Policy Research 29 2012): 431-438. “Darwin’s Analogy between Artificial and Natural Selection in the Origin of Species,” in the Cambridge Companion to the “Origin of Species.” Cambridge University Press, 2009. “The So-Called Eclipse of Darwinism,” in Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970. American Philosophical Society, 2009. “The Nazi Eugenics Exhibit in America, 1934-1943,” co-authored with Robert Rydell and Christina Cogdell for Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and Mass Culture in the Thirties, edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell. Ohio University Press, 2006. “Zoology of the Twentieth Century:” Charles Davenport’s Prediction for Biology,” APS Library Bulletin (Fall 2002). “‘The Greatest Curse of the Race:’ Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon, 1909-1983,” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Summer 2002). “Introduction,” The Benevolent Hand: Darwinism and Theology in America, 1850-1930, edited by Frank X. Ryan. Thoemmes Press, 2002. “Bionomics: Vernon Lyman Kellogg and the Defense of Darwinism, 1890-1910.” Journal of History of Biology (2000). EDITED VOLUMES Editor of Studies in Modern Science, Technology and the Environment with Rutgers University Press. • The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day by Gordon Patterson (2009) • Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security by Mark R. Finlay (2009) • Knowing Global Environments edited by Jeremy Vetter (2011) • Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine by Jill Fisher (2011) • Making a Green Machine: The Infrastructure of Beverage Container Recycling by Finn Arne Jorgenson (2011) • Overpotential: Fuel Cells, Futurism and the Making of a Power Pancea by Matthew N. Eisler (2012) • The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism by Thomas Robertson (2012)
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Co-Editor with Prof. Christian Young of The Evolution/Creation Debate: A Documentary and Reference Guide. Greenwood Press, 2007. Editor of the Rutgers University Press reprint of the Science and Society Series. Volumes include: • Science, Race and Ethnicity by John Jackson and Nadine Weidman (2006) • Science and Gender by Suzanne Sheffield (2006) Editor of Science and Society for ABC-Clio. Volumes include: • Science, Race and Ethnicity by John Jackson and Nadine Weidman (2004) • Science and Gender by Suzanne Sheffield (2004) • Science and the Environment by Christian Young (2005) • Science and Literature by John Cartwright and Brian Baker (2005) • Science and Exploration by Michael Reidy, Gary Kroll, and Erik Conway (2006) • Science, Imperialism, and Colonialism by George Vlahakis (2006) History of Evolution Sourcebook: Primary Documents in the History of Evolutionary Science, 1800-Present. Kendall/Hunt Publishers, 2002. Revised, 2004. SHORT ARTICLES AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES “STAR METRICS.” Co-authored with Julia Lane and Rebecca Rosen. NCURA Magazine (March/April 2012). “Sterilization,” in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History. Oxford University Press, 2012. “Eugenics,” in Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science. M.E. Sharpe, 2008. “Sterilization,” in Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science. M.E. Sharpe, 2008 “Johann Gregor Mendel,” in Plant Sciences for Students. Macmillan, 2001. “Social Darwinism” in Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Impact of Scientific Discovery, edited by Neil Schlagel. Gale, 2000. “Rudolf Carl Virchow” in Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Impact of Scientific Discovery, edited by Neil Schlagel. Gale, 2000. “Archives and Published Resources on Vernon Kellogg.” Mendel Newsletter 8 (1999). “Enhancing History,” co-authored with Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Eric Boyles. Organization of American Historians Newsletter 26 (1998). BOOK REVIEWS “James Lander’s Lincoln and Darwin: Shared Visions of Race, Science, and Religion for Isis (2012). “Edward J. Larson’s The Creation Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives,” Reports of the National Center for Science Education 30 (2010). “Ian Dowbiggin’s The Sterilization Movement and Global Fertility in the Twentieth Century,” Society for the History of Medicine 21 (2008).
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“William H. Tucker’s The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund,” Journal of History of Biology 37 (2004). “Jim Phillips’s and Rosemary Gartner’s Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell,” Oregon Historical Quarterly (2004). “Jeffrey Moran’s The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents,” Journal of History of Biology 36 (2003). “Elof Axel Carlson’s The Unfit: The History of a Bad Idea,” Journal of History of Biology 35 (2002). “Ken Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution,” Journal of History of Biology 34 (2001). “Essay Review of Steven Selden’s Inheriting Shame and Nancy Gallagher’s Breeding Better Vermonters,” Journal of History of Biology 33 (2000). PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS “Reye’s Syndrome and the Invention of a Public Health Triumph,” at the American Association for the History of Medicine, April 28, 2012. “The Modern American Vaccine Debate,” with Paul Offit and Jason Schwartz at the Philadelphia Science Festival, April 24, 2012. “Breeding Contempt,” at “Governing Science: Technological Progress, Ethical Norms, and Democracy,” at Princeton University, April 13, 2012. “Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America,” at the University of Notre Dame, April 10, 2012. “Vaccine Anxieties: The Modern American Vaccine Debate,” Arizona State University, November 18, 2011. “The Modern American Vaccine Controversy,” University of Utah, March 11, 2011. “When History Hurts: How Historical Memory Shapes Public Policy Debates,” MSU History Department Colloquium Series, December 11, 2009. “Disability in the History of Eugenics,” Roundtable Discussant and Invited Speaker, Eugenics and Disability: History and Legacy in Washington, University of Washington Disability Studies Program, October 9, 2009. “Vaccines, Autism, and Anxieties: Public Resistance to Compulsory Vaccination in the United States,” University of Puget Sound Invited Lecture, October 8, 2009. “Vaccines and Autism: The Scientific Debate and Popular Belief that Vaccines Have Caused an Autism Epidemic,” Bruce and Sally Kantar Lecture, Co-Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and History of Medicine Department, University of Minnesota, September 22, 2008. “Before and Beyond Buck: The Evolution of American Compulsory Sterilization Laws,” at the ELSI Research Project symposium on “The History of State and Local Eugenic Practices in the United States,” Indiana University School of Medicine, April 13, 2007. “Variation Under Domestication,” William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Conference “On the Origin of Species,” at Florida State University, March 23, 2007.
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“The Evolution of Antievolutionism in the United States,” MacMurray College Annual Blair Lecture, October 5, 2006. “Beyond Eugenics: The Uses of Coercive Sterilization in Twentieth-Century America,” Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences Brown Bag Series, Michigan State University, December 1, 2005. “When and Why Did ‘Eugenics’ Become a Derogatory Term?” at the Thompson Hall Math and Science Seminar at the University of Puget Sound, April 28, 2005. “The Origin and Meaning of the ‘Eclipse of Darwinism,’” at “Descended from Darwin: Insights into American Evolutionary Studies, 1925-1950” at the American Philosophical Society, October 22, 2004. “The Fix: Sterilization as the Solution for Oregon’s Woes,” American Association of the History of Medicine Meeting, April 29, 2004. “The Fix: Sterilization as the Solution to Oregon’s Woes,” History of Science Society Meeting, November 22, 2003. “Beyond Eugenics: Coercive Sterilization in the United States,” Montana State University, April 25, 2003. “Nipping It in the Bud: The Seductive Promises of Eugenics,” University of Puget Sound Mortarboard Society Last Lecture Series, April 2, 2003. “Bringing History of Science to Traditionally Black Colleges and Universities,” NSF-Sponsored Seminar, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 6-7, 2002. “William Jennings Bryan’s Critique of Evolutionary Biology: A Useful Constructivist Narrative?” History of Science Colloquium, University of Washington, May 13, 2002. “Anti-Evolutionism in American Society,” Science Colloquium Series, Emporia State University, March 13, 2002. “Kansas Boys Roamed Like Wild Young Mammals: The Lives and Works of Vernon Kellogg and His Best Friend, William Allen White,” The John J. Zimmerman Memorial Lecture at Emporia State University, March 13, 2002. “The Menace of Darwinism: William Jennings Bryan and American Anti-Evolutionism,” Science and Math Colloquium, University of Puget Sound, October 4, 2001. “The Eugenic Persuasion: Biologists in the American Eugenics Movement, 1900-1940,” Department of Biology, University of Delaware, May 16, 2001. “Eugenic Sterilization in Oregon, 1909-1983,” Holocaust Memorial Week Featured Lecture, Oregon State University, April 19, 2001. “William Jennings Bryan’s Critique of Evolutionary Biology,” Zoology Department, Oregon State University, February 19, 2001. “Biological Justifications for Progressive Reforms,” History of Science Society Meeting, Vancouver, November 3, 2000. “The Human Harvest: American Biologists and Peace Eugenics, 1910-1918,” Wangensteen Historical Library, University of Minnesota, April 13, 2000.
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“‘Capturing Burbank for Science:’ Luther Burbank and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1905-1910,” Columbia History of Science Group, March 4, 2000. “Integrating the WWW into a History of Science Course,” International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April 16, 1999. “Vernon Kellogg and the Science of Bionomics, 1900-1915,” History of Science Society Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, October 25, 1998. Co-organized session. “Enhancing a Course Using the WWW,” in “Teaching History of Science with New Technologies” Session, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, October 22, 1998. “Vernon Kellogg’s Darwinism To-Day and the Eclipse of Darwinism,” Midwest Junto History of Science and Technology Annual Meeting, April 17, 1998. “War as a Eugenic or a Dysgenic Activity: Vernon Lyman Kellogg at the International Eugenics Congresses,” Midwest Junto Annual Meeting, April 15, 1997. “Science, Pseudo-Science, and Black Nationalism: The Role of Scientific Racism in the Struggle for Equality,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, April 22, 1995. GRANTS AND AWARDS • 2012 Humanities and Arts Research Program Grant, Michigan State University • 2011-12 American Association for the Advance of Science, Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Science Foundation • 2006-2007 Faculty Development Grant, James Madison College, Michigan State University • 2004 Burlington Northern Curriculum Development Grant • 2004 U.P.S. Alpha Kappa Psi Teacher of the Year • 2004 History of Science Society, Committee on Education Grant to offer History of Science Seminars to Tacoma School District Math and Science Teachers • 2002-2003 Joel Palmer Award for the Best Article in Oregon Historical Quarterly • 2000-2001 American Philosophical Society Research Fellowship • 1998-1999 Edwin T. Layton Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, University of Minnesota • 1999 History of Science Society, Travel Grant for Conference on College Teaching & Learning • 1998 Technology Enhanced Learning Award from University of Minnesota • 1997 Dayton-Wilkie Natural History Research Travel Grant • 1996-97 History of Science and Technology Program Graduate Fellowship PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP • Secretary of Section L: History and Philosophy of Science of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012-Present • Election to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2012 • Co-Organizer (with Christian Young) of the 2011 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah • Book Review Editor, Journal of the History of Biology, 2006-2011 • Untenured Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees, Michigan State University, 2008-2010 • Chairman of the Steering Committee, Forum on American Science, History of Science Society, 2003-06 • Co-Founder of the Program in Science, Technology & Society at the University of Puget Sound, 2003 • Member, Ethics Committee, Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, Washington, 2003-2005 • Executive Secretary, Columbia History of Science Group, 2002-2010
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• Program Coordinator, Columbia History of Science Group, 2002-04 • Organizer, MEPHISTOS International Graduate Student Conference in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, September, 1998 • Representative, Council of Graduate Students, University of Minnesota, 1997-98 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS • American Association for the Advancement of Science • Forum on American Science, History of Science Society • International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology • Columbia History of Science Group • History of Science Society
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