Bernie Lightman
| Degrees: | Ph.D., Brandeis
University M.A., York University B.A. (Honours), York University |
| Current Position: | Professor (Humanities) Society
Editor, History of Science Society and Editor of Isis
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| Recent Publications: | "’Knowledge’
Confronts ‘Nature’: Richard Proctor and Popular Science Periodicals."
Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media, eds. Louise Henson, Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth and Jonathan R. Topham. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 199-210. "Scientists as Materialists in the Periodical Press: Tyndall’s Belfast Address." Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals. Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Eds. Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 2004, 199-237. "Interpreting Agnosticism as a Nonconformist Sect: T. H. Huxley’s 'New Reformation.'" Science and Dissent in England, 1688-1945. Ed. Paul Wood. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004, 197-214.* General Editor. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists. 4 vols. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. [American edition co-published by Thoemmes Continuum and University of Chicago Press, to be published in January 2005] General Editor, Science Writing by Women, Ed. Bernard Lightman. Second Set of Popular Science in the Nineteenth Century. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2004, 7 volumes. [includes my introductions to the set and to the Kirby and Giberne volumes] |
| Courses taught recently: | History 5830.06 Contexts of Victorian Science |
| Research Interests: | Great
Britain, Victorian
science, religion, and gender; popularization of science,
science and visual
culture |
| Awards/Grants: | 2004:
Co-Investigator, SSHRC Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants,
"Science and Technology Studies/History and Philosophy of Science,"
Fall 2004. 2004:
Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Program, Three year grant 2005-2008
for Isis.
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