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David I. Spanagel

Assistant Professor

Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 239
Phone: +1-508-831-6403
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
spanagel@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Great Problems Seminars

Educational Background

• B.A. Oberlin College
• M.S.Ed., University of Rochester
• Ph.D., Harvard University

Research & Teaching Interests

History of American science and technology; North American environmental history; History of the earth and environmental sciences

IQP Advising Interests

History; History of technology; History of science

Recent Publications

• Recent Conference Presentations: “Imperialism, Piracy, and Science Upon the High Seas in the 1700s,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Nov. 2, 2007.

• "Review of David Dobbs, Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral," Journal of the History of Biology (in press).

• "Review of Mark Monmonier, Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 37 (2006): 427-428

• Early Russian Pedology. International Union of Soil Sciences Newsletter (February 2004): 24-29.

• "Review of Gail Fisher, Journeys Through Paradise: Pioneering Naturalists In The Southeast," The Quarterly Review of Biology 78 (2003): 351-352.

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