Curriculum Vitae |
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Work Address: Program in Science, Technology & Society, Penn State University, 202 Old Botany Bldg.University Park, PA 16802 USA
Home Address: 328 E. Lamb St., Bellefonte, PA 18623
Phone: (814) 863-9526 (work) (814) 863-3047 (fax) E-mail: saw23[at]psu.edu
Education
Degree |
University |
Subject |
Date |
Ph.D. |
University of Toronto |
Hist. of Science & Tech. |
1999 |
M.A. |
University of Toronto |
Hist. of Science & Tech. |
1994 |
M.S. |
California Inst. of Technology |
Mechanical Engineering |
1992 |
B.S. |
Cornell University |
Mechanical Engineering |
1991 (with distinction) |
Thesis (Ph.D.): The Art of Gunnery in Renaissance England Advisor: Bert S. Hall.
Note: full thesis avialble via Theses Canada.
Thesis (M.A.): Engineering the Body: Mechanical Men & Animals and the Mechanistic Philosophy, 1500-1800 Advisor: Bert S. Hall.
Recent Publications & Presentations
Publications principal works ( sent out; in process)
Steven A. Walton (ed.), Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance, (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS Press, 2006) submitted April 2006.
C.T. Currelly and the Origins of the Arms & Armour Collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, submitted to the Journal of the History of Collections, March 2006.
Founding A Foundry: Gouverneur Kembles Diary of the Setting-Out of the West Point Foundry, June 6July 1, 1817, accepted for IA: Industrial Archaeology. Special Issue on the West Point Foundry, forthcoming, 2006.
The Object of North American Armor Collections, c.1850-1914, in Acta of the 17th Conference of the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Arms and Military History, Organized under the theme The Storyline in Arms and Military Museums (Ottawa: National Defense, 2006), pp. 20-33.
Steven A. Walton (ed.), Instrumental in War: Science, Research, and Instruments Between Knowledge and the World, History of Warfare 28 (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2005).
includes:"Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Scientific Military Gentleman, pp. 17-46.
Robert Bork, Steven A. Walton, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, and Scott Montgomery (eds.), De Re Metallica; Studies in Medieval Metals, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art 4 (Ashgate, 2005).
The Classification of Arms: Henry Percys Ramist ideas of weaponry, Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, 18.1 (March 2004): 25-39.
The Bishopsgate Artillery Garden and the First English Ordnance School, Journal of the Ordnance Society 15 (2003): 41-51
Recent reviews ( in process)
The Armour Research Society Journal, vol.1 (2005), under review for De ReMilitari [online].
John Langdon, Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300-1540 (Oxford, 2004) under review for The Journal of Economic History.
David Kunzle, From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672, History of Warfare 10 (Lieden: Brill, 2002) under review for De Re Militari [online]
Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland (eds.), The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment, Dibner Studies in the History of Science 8 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005) forthcoming in Technology&Culture.
Wolfgang Lefvre (ed.), Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004) in Isis.
Roger B. Manning, Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos of the Three Kingdoms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) in Sixteenth Centuries Studies XXXX
John Landers, The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) in Technology & Culture 47.1 (January 2006): XXX.
Recent Presentations
What did they know and when did they know it? Scholastic Architecture [with Tom Boothby], 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 4-7 May 2006 (organizer: general session)
The Military-Industrial-University Complex 80 Years too Early: The Naval Torpedo Station, 1869-1885, SHOT/HSS, Minneapolis, MN, 3-6 November 2005 (Organizer: open session).
Proto-Scientific Revolution or Cookbook Science? Early gunnery manuals in the craft treatise tradition, Craft Treatises and Handbooks: the Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, Cordoba, Spain, 6-8 October 2005 (Organizer: Ricardo Cordoba de la Llave).
Getting Inside Military Mathematical Practitioners Heads, International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science (IUHPS/DHS), Beijing, China, July 24-30, 2005 (Organizer: Lesley Cormack).
Mortice or Tenon: Medieval Woodworking in Craft Treatises, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 7-11 July 2005 (Organizer: Katherine C. Eagleton).
C.T. Currelly and the Origins of Arms and Armor at the ROM/ The Object of North American Armor Collections, 1850-1914, ICOMAM, Ottawa, Canada, 11-14 June 2005.
The Impetus of Being Earnest: Aristotle, Ballistics, and Late Medieval Artillery, 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 2005 (organizer: Kelly DeVries)
Modeling Reality: Daniel Santbechs Triangular Trajectories, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 28-31 October 2004 (organizer: Bruce Janacek)
Holy Dovetails!: St. Joseph and the Illustration of Medieval Woodworking, 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 2004 (organizer: Steven A. Walton).
Making a Hybrid Career between Science and the Humanities, WISE Scholars, Penn State University, 4 December 2003 (organizers; Martin Pietrucha and Dean Snow)
Administrative Experience
Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator: Science, Technology, & Society Program, PSU, 2007- (www.engr.psu.edu/sts)
Colloquium Coordinator: Science, Technology, & Society Program, PSU, 2003-07 (www.engr.psu.edu/sts)
Vice President: AVISTA society (www.avista.org) [webmaster until end of 2005]
Book Review Editor, De Re Militari society (www.deremilitari.org), 2003-present
Webmaster: Science, Technology, & Society Program, PSU, 2002-2007 (www.engr.psu.edu/sts; archive backup of my final site here)
Recent Article Reviews for Technology & Culture and Feminist Science.
Organizer, sessions on Ars practica, 40th Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 6-9 May 2004.