Teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (History of Technology and History of Civilization I)
Working on a translation and edition of an early fifteenth-century history of invention.
Writing an article on the organization of Hugh of St. Victor's mechanical arts.
Writing book reviews.
On June 9th, 2006, I graduated from my PhD at the University of Toronto. My dissertation is entitled "The Memory of Medieval Inventions, 1200-1600: Windmills, Spectacles, Mechanical Clocks, and Sandglasses".
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting
Lisbon. Portugal. October 11-14, 2008.
History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Conference
Pittsburgh, PA. USA. November 6-9, 2008.
British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS)
University of Reading. UK. March 27-29, 2008.
The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI. USA. May 7-10, 2009.
I am organizing two sessions for AVISTA for this conference, entitled "Book Technologies I: Production" and "Book Technologies II: Use". Please contact me before the end of August if you're interested in presenting in either of them.
I am also co-organizing a session entitled "Weblogs and the Academy: The scope of the professional and boundaries of the personal in open, pseudo-anonymous, and anonymous
blogging" with Elisabeth Carnell for this conference. Please contact either of us if you're interested in presenting a paper for this session.
International Medieval Congress
Leeds. UK. July 13-16, 2009.