Richard A. Jarrell
| Degrees: | M.A., PhD,
University of Toronto A.B., Indiana University |
| Current Position: | Professor (Pure & Applied Science) Editorial Board Social Studies of Science member of historical committees of the American Astronomical Society Canadian Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| Recent Publications: | Roy M. MacLeod
and Richard A. Jarrell, eds., Dominions Apart: Reflections on the
Culture of Science and Technology in Canada and Australia 1850-1945
(Toronto: Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, 1995)
"The Formative Years of Canadian Radio Astronomy" Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 91 (Feb. 1997): 20-27 "Some Aspects of the Evolution of Agricultural and Technical Education in Nineteenth-Century Ireland", in Peter J. Bowler and Nicholas Whyte, eds., Science and Society in Ireland. The Social Context of Science and Technology in Ireland (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1997): 101-17 "Visionary or Bureaucrat?: T.H. Huxley, the Department of Science and Arts and Science Teaching for the Working Class" Annals of Science 55 (1998): 219-40 |
| Courses taught recently: | History
5810.06: Science, Technology and Canadian Development History 6080.06: History of Science, Health and Environments/Social Sciences |
| Research Interests: | Canada,
History of Canadian science,
especially astronomy, science and education and science and the state;
19th century Irish and British scientific/technical education |
