Gregg Mitman

Education

Ph.D., 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of History of Science. Dissertation: "Evolution by Cooperation: Ecology, Ethics, and the Chicago School, 1910-1950. "Advisor: William Coleman.

M.A., 1984 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of History of Science. Thesis: "Complementarity and Phage Genetics: The influence of quantum physics on the early development of molecular biology. "

B.Sc., 1981 Biology, Dalhousie University (with Distinction).

Professional Experience

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor, Department of History of Medicine, Department of History of Science, Science Studies, and Institute for Environmental Studies, 2001-.

University of Minnesota, Program in History of Science and Technology, Visiting Professor, 2000-2001.

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Scholar, 1999- 2000.

University of Oklahoma. Department of the History of Science, Professor, 1999- 2000 Associate Professor, 1995-1999; Assistant Professor, 1991-95.

Princeton University, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Visiting Fellow, 1997-1998.

University of Oklahoma, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment Program, Co-ordinator, 1996-1997.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of the History of Science, Visiting Associate Professor, 1995-1996.

University of Minnesota. Program in the History of Science and Technology, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1990-1991.

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Department of the History of Science, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1989-1990.

University of Oklahoma. Department of the History of Science. Rockefeller Fellow in the Humanities, 1988-1989.

Honors and Awards

Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Book Prize from the History of Science Socitey, 2000.

Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools, 1994

Fellowships and Grants

John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2005-2006.

Glaxo-Smith-Kline Senior Fellow at the national Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, 2004-2005.

American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Research Fellowship, 2004-2005.

Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research Fellowship, 2004. (Declined)

Oregon Center for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 2004 (Declined)

National Library of Medicine Research Fellowship, 2003.

National Science Foundation, “Environment, Health, and Place in Global Perspective: A Conference Proposal.” Principal Investigator. With Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers, Co-Principal Investigators, 2002.

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Research Fellowship, 1999-2000.

National Science Foundation, "Breathing Space: A History of Asthma and the Environment."Principal Investigator, 1999-2002.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1999.

National Science Foundation, "Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. Exploring the Oceanic Frontier: American Naturalists as Amateur Conservationists."Principal Investigator. With Gary M. Kroll, Co-Principal Investigator, 1998-1999.

National Science Foundation, "Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. Cold War Conservation: International Science, National Resources and Reproductive Limits."Principal Investigator. With Maureen A. McCormick, Co-Principal Investigator, 1998-1999.

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship, Princeton University, 1997-1998.

University of Oklahoma, Presidential International Travel Fellowship, 1997.

National Science Foundation Research and Training Grant, "Nature, History, and the Natural Historical Sciences in the Twentieth Century."Co- Principal Investigor. With John Beatty, Principal Investigator and James Collins, Co-Principal Investigator, 1996-1998.

National Science Foundation, "Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant. "Harlow Shapley, Cosmography, and Culture in 1950's and 1960's America."Principal Investigator. With JoAnn Palmeri, Co-Principal Investigator, 1996-1998.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science: Historical Intersections of the Biological and Social Sciences. Director, 1994-1999.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Leadership Opportunity in Science and Humanities Education Grant, "Conceiving the Commons: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Literacy."Principal Investigator. With M. V. Rajeev Gowda, Zev Trachtenberg, and Linda Wallace, Co-Principal Investigators, 1994-1997.

National Science Foundation, "Cinematic Nature: Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the Science of Animal Behavior, 1920-1960. "Principal Investigator, 1993-1996.

University of Oklahoma Research Council Grant, 1993.

Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 1992.

National Science Foundation, "From Museums, to Movies, to Marineland: W. D. Burden, G. K. Noble and the Marketing of Animal Behavior Research. "Principal Investigator, 1990-1992.

WARF Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987-1988

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1986-1987

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1986-1987.

University of Wisconsin Travel Fellowship, 1986-1987

Articles Published in the Last 10 Years

"Geographies of Hope: Mining the Frontiers of Health in Denver and Beyond." Osiris 19, (forthcoming, 2004).

"Pachyderm Personalities: The Media of Science, Politics and Conservation."In Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism, edited by Gregg Mitman and Lorraine Daston. New York: Columbia University Press, (forthcoming, 2004).

"Natural History and the Clinic: The Regional Ecology of Allergy in America."Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 34 (2003): 491-510.

"Hay Fever Holiday: Health, Leisure, and Place in Gilded Age America."Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 77 (2003): 600-635.

"When Pollen Became Poison: A Cultural Geography of Ragweed in America."In The Moral Authority of Nature, edited by Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, pp. 438-465. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003

"Life in the Field: The Sensuous Body as Popular Naturalist’s Guide."In Primate Encounters: Models of Science, Gender, and Society, edited by Shirley C. Strum and Linda M. Fedigan, pp. 421-435. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

"Cinematic Nature: Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture, and the American Museum of Natural History,"Isis 84 (1993): 637-661. Reprinted in The Scientific Enterprise in America, Readings from Isis, edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Charles E. Rosenberg, pp. 203-227. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

With Ronald L. Numbers. "Evolutionary Theory."In Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century, edited by Stanley I. Kutler, vol. II, pp. 859-876. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996.

With Anne Fausto-Sterling. "Whatever Happened to Planaria?: C. M. Child and the Physiology of Inheritance."In The Right Tools for the Job: At Work in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences, edited by Adele E. Clarke and Joan H. Fujimura, pp. 172-197. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Reprinted in La Matérialité des Sciences: Savoir-faire et Instruments dans les Sciences de la Vie. Translated by Francoise Bouillot with the collaboration of Émilie Hermant, pp. 227-257. Paris: Synthélabo Groupe, 1996.

“When Nature is the Zoo: Vision and Power in the Art and Science of Natural History. " Osiris 11 (1996): 117-143.

"Defining the Organism in the Welfare State: The Politics of Individuality in American Culture, 1890-1950."Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 18 (1994): 249-280.

With Timothy F. H. Allen and Thomas W. Hoekstra. "Synthesis Mid- Century: J. T. Curtis and the Community Concept."In John T. Curtis: Fifty Years of Wisconsin Plant Ecology , edited by James S. Fralish, Robert P. McIntosh, and Orie L. Loucks, pp. 123-144. Madison: Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993.

With Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr., "Struggling for Identity: The Study of Animal Behavior in America, 1930-1950."In The Expansion of American Biology, edited by Keith R. Benson, Ronald Rainger, and Jane Maienschein, pp. 164-194. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

"Evolution as Gospel: William Patten, the Language of Democracy, and the Great War. "Isis 81 (1990): 446-463.

"Dominance, Leadership, and Aggression: Animal Behavior Studies During the Second World War."Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 26 (1990): 3-16.

Current Research Projects/Interests

Current book project, Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America, brings together historiographic and methodological approaches drawn from cultural history, environmental history and the history of medicine. Focusing upon the relationships between illness and place, this book investigates how allergy has transformed the natural and built environment in America, and the ways in which environmental and landscape change have in turn shaped the experience, understanding, and treatment of allergy as a disease.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• 353: History of Ecology and Environmentalism [syllabus]
• 394: Science in America
• 513: Environment and Health in Global Perspective [syllabus]

Graduate

• 713: Environment and Health in Global Perspective [syllabus]
• 901: Geographies of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• 919: Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine