Antarctica and the Global Environment- A Study Abroad Experience
Research Interests
U.S. science and technology during the Cold War
U.S. space and Antarctic exploration
U.S. military recruitment and education
U.S. veteran commemoration and memorialization
SUNY Brockport School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2023.
SUNY Brockport Honors College Faculty Teacher of the Year, 2023.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellow, 2022, 2019.
American Council on Education Fellow, 2016-17.
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004.
Presidential Library Foundations Research Grants: George H.W. Bush (2003); Lyndon B. Johnson (2002); and Gerald R. Ford (1997).
Smithsonian Institution Research Fellowship, 1996-1997.
History of Science Society’s Schuman Prize, 1996.
Jacob Javits Fellow, 1991-1996.
“The Plattsburgh Movement and Military Preparedness,” in Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets eds., Beyond the City: Re-Placing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SUNY University Press, forthcoming).
“America’s ‘Space Frontier’ in the Era of Space Tourism,” in Rodney Hill and J.B. Bennington eds., One Giant Leap: Political and Cultural Impacts of the Race to the Moon (Univ Florida Press, 2023).
“American Science during the Cold War,” in Timothy Kneeland ed., The Routledge History of American Science (Routledge, 2022).
“International Science in Antarctica,” in Hugh Slotten ed., Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context. (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Frontiers for the American Century: Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
“Scientific Exploration in Antarctica as an Analogy for American Spaceflight,” Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space Politics & Policy (October 2014).
“Nostalgia for the Right Stuff: Astronauts and Public Anxiety about a Changing Nation,” in Michael Neufeld ed., Spacefarers: Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight (Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2013).
“Radiant Cuisine: The Commercial Fate of Food Irradiation in the United States,” Technology and Culture, October 2004.
“This is War! : Network Radio and World War II Propaganda in America,” Journal of Radio Studies, June 2004.
“The United Service Organizations (USO) Since World War II,” USO Battlefields to Home Front, Roosevelt House, New York City, January 2025.
“Racism and Anti-Immigration in 1920s America,” Brighton Public Library Society, January 2024.
“Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in 20th Century America,” Rochester Public Library Society, October 2023.
“Fifty Years since the First Lunar Landing,” Batavia Public Library, June 2019.
“Fifty Years of Space Exploration,” NASA History Office professional workshop, July 2019.
“The Long Demise of the ‘Space Frontier,’” Apollo @ 50 conference, Hofstra University, April 2019.
“Immigration Reform and the Politics of Security, Economics, and National Character,” Strong Museum AP History Conference, March 2017.
“American Cold War Internationalism,” National University of Ireland, Maynooth, March 2016.
“FDR and New Deal Politics,” Livingston Great Depression Symposium, September 2015.
“Promoting American Spaceflight,” Future in Space Operations Telecom Series, March 2015.
“Superpower Politics, Energy, and America’s Long Road through 9-11,” Strong Museum AP History, March 2014.
“America’s High-Tech Arsenal of Democracy,” Strong Museum AP History, March 2013.
“20th Century U.S. South Polar Exploration,” American Studies Association, November 2012.
“Technologies of Exploration,” Society for the History of Technology, November 2011.
“Changing Sentiments about American Exploration,” Organization of American Historians, March 2008.
“Outer Space, Antarctica and Changing Sentiments about American Exploration,” Organization of American Historians Conference, March 2008.
“The Greatest Legacy of the IGY: Antarctic Science as a Force for Peaceful Internationalism,” The International geophysical Year: A 50-Year Retrospective (part of the IUGG Conference), July 2007.
