Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Citizenship: United States of America

Scholarships and Academic Awards

Publications & Presentations

• "The Mathematical and Military Sciences in Renaissance England," Endeavour Jan. 2001 issue.
• "Theophrastus on Lyngurium ­ Medieval and Renaissance Lore from the Classical Lapidary Tradition," Annals of Science (accepted July 2000; revisions complete Dec. 2000).
• "Medieval Science, Technology and Health" (With Bert S. Hall) inMedieval Life, Gale publishing group (MS submitted Dec. 2000).
• Thomas Harriot's Ballistics and the Patronage of Military Science, Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar Occasional Paper no. 30 (Durham, 1999) [ISBN 1 870268 73 3]
  
• "The Virtuousness of Technology: The Battle of Brunanburh and Anglo-Saxon Sword Manufacture," Technology and Culture vol. 36, no. 4 (Oct. 1995): 987-99.
  
• "Canadian Aesthetics of Early Reinforced Concrete," IA: the Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology 21 (1995): 1-14.
  
• "An Index of Harriot Manuscripts from the notes of the Late Professor John W. Shirley," working title of ongoing project (to be published by the Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar).

• "An Unnoticed Praise of Harriot's Contribution to Mathematics," The Harrioteer (Durham, UK), forthcoming (submitted August 2000).
• Entries for John Bate (fl. 1630), John Robins (c1500-1558), John Muller (1699-1784), and Sir Robert Gordon (1647-1784) in the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford), in press for 2002 (submitted 1999).
• Review of Pinella Travaglia, Magic, Causality and Intentionality. The Doctrine of Rays in al-Kindi (Simsel, 1999) in The Medieval Review, issue TMR 00.09.02, at http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
• Review of Maurice Keen (ed.), Medieval Warfare: A History (Oxford, 1999), in Technology & Culture, forthcoming (submitted May 2000)
• Review of James L. Cooper, Artistry and Ingenuity in Artificial Stone: Indiana's Concrete Bridges, 1900-1942 (Greencastle, IN, 1997), in Technology and Culture 40.3 (1999) 715-716 .
  
• Review of Joel Kaye, Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought (Cambridge, 1998) in The Medieval Review, issue TMR 98.09.04, at http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/

• "Of Course Leather Tanning is Scientific: the Rhetoric of Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto before the Depression," 11th Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association (CSTHA) Meeting, Kington, Ontario, 2 October 1999 (organizer: Alain Canuel)
  
• "Preserving the Past and Inventing the Future: Clues to Technology Transfer in Tudor Gunnery Manuals," 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 8 May 1999 (organizer: Kelly DeVries).
  
• "Thomas Harriot's Ballistics and English Renaissance Warfare," The Thomas Harriot Seminar, Durham, England, 15 December 1998 (organizer: G.R. Batho).
  
• "The Integration of Artillery into Early Modern England: On the impetus and loci for technological change," Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 17 October 1998 (presider: Terry Reynolds).
  
• "To Baghdad with Pride: Dark Age Sword Trade Reconsidered," 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 1997 (organizer: Kelly DeVries).
  
• "'The Bell-Tower' and 'Die Automat': The Scientific Prehistory of 19th Century Science Fiction," Science/Fiction and Popular Culture, York University, 1 November 1996 (presider: Geoff Bunn).
  
• "Tools in Service of the Lord: The Iconography of Medieval Woodworking and the Joseph the Carpenter," Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, 21 October 1995 (presider: Jonathan Coopersmith).
  
• "Fascination, Fear, and Failure: Automata and Other Simulations of Life," Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History Colloquia Series, Washington, DC, 18 July 1995 (organizer: Nancy Matthews).
  
• "The Fear and Failure of Technology: The Case of Enlightenment Automata," Ontario-Quebec Exchange, Toronto, Ontario, 28 October 1994 (organizer: Janis Langins).
  
• "Clarence Richard Young and the Aesthetics of Early Reinforced Concrete," Society for Industrial Archaeology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, 4 June 1994 (organizer: E. Phyllis Rose).
  
• "An Introduction to the Mechanical Arts in the Middle Ages," 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1993 (organizer: W.T. Swejkowski).

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References

• Bert S. Hall, Associate Professor, IHPST, University of Toronto.
  
  E-mail: bhall@chass.utoronto.ca
  
  Ph.: (416) 978-4945
  

  Terry Reyolds, Department Chair, Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University.
  

  E-mail: treynolds@mtu.edu
  

  Ph.: (906) 487-2113
  

  Janis Langins, Associate Professor, IHPST, University of Toronto.
  

  E-mail: jlangins@chass.utoronto.ca
  

  Ph.: (416) 978-4940
  

  Kelly DeVries, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Loyola College, Baltimore.
  

  E-mail: devries@loyola.edu

  Ph.: (410) 617-2326