Past Students

• Matt White, PhD (2016), The Ecology of Science Museums
  in Philadelphia
• Stewart Kreitzer, PhD (2013), Worldviews in Collision:
  The Debate between John Greene and Ernst Mayr.
• Adrian Morse, MA (2006). A History of Invasion Biology
• Allison Riggs, MA (2006). Mediating Botanical Authority:
  Harry Marshall Ward, Daniel Morris, and the Coffee Rust
  Epidemic in Ceylon (1879-1892)
• Stewart Kreitzer, MA (2006). Ernst Mayr: Darwin of the
  Twentieth Century
• James McCain, MA (2005). Representations of Stephen
  Hawking in American Popular Culture
• Ayne Terceira, MA (2004). The Wilting of the Goose
  Tree: The Fall and Rise of Botanical Practice
• Amy Levitt, MA (2001). Patenting Life: The Influence of
  Patent Law in the Emergence of Biotechnology
• Cornelia Lambert, MA (2001). The Child and the Bee.
  Natural Theology and Insect Science in Children’s Literature,
  1825-1855
• Christopher Koehler, PhD (1998). Sexual Biology:
  Thomas Hunt Morgan, Richard Goldschmidt and the
  Problem of Sex Determination in America and Germany
• Mark Lesney, PhD (1997). Emerging Edens: The Rise
  of the Biotechnology Industry in America.
• Frederick Davis, MA (1996). Archie Carr: Naturalist,
  Herpetologist, Ecologist and Conservationist. The
  Early Years (1932-1960)
• Neal Andrew Doran MA (1994). The Metaphysical
  Foundations of the Punctuated Equilibrium Controversy

As member of graduate committee: Matt Adkins, Jeff Brautigam,
Isabelle Fleming, Tom Fischelschweiger, Eric Urbanc, Wendy Lynch,
Paul Wagner and Gary Weisel for history of science. Leslie Poole,
Daniel Simone, Bridget Bihm-Manuel, Misty Stills, Nancy Engle,
Marcus Harvey, Gary Kroll, David McCally in American history
and environmental history. Nicholas Dorn in European history.
Andrea Amaya and Julienne Obadia in Latin American history.
Kearsely Stewart in African History. Vann Riley Anderson, Venus
Freeman, Tom Kenney and Raina Jones in English. Eric L. Thomas
in Religion. Gayle Brown, Eva Kort, Kathy Kanuck and Ivana Simic
in Philosophy. William Jawde in Sociology. Charles Grapski in
Political Science. Angela Bremmer in Entomology. External
Member of PhD committee: David Steffes, University of Oklahoma.

Undergraduate Honors Theses: Michael Kinney, Amanda
Hoffman, Eugene Usow, Meredith Henry, Athena Thanos,
James McCain, Glenn Hanna, Julie Ryal, Afroditi Petridis
(University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Giannis Grivas
(University of Athens, Athens, Greece)