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Who Cares Who Made the Map? La Carta del Cantino and its anonymous maker
(2017)This paper explores the authorship of the anonymous La Carta del Cantino through an analysis of design signatures. Using high resolution digital copies of charts in ArcGIS, La Carta del Cantino is compared to contemporaneous ... -
Challenges and Considerations Related to Studying Dementia in Blacks/African Americans
(2017)Blacks/African Americans have been reported to be ∼2–4 times more likely to develop clinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) compared to Whites. Unfortunately, study design challenges (e.g., recruitment bias), racism, mistrust ... -
Beyond Failure: Rethinking Confederate State Policies on the Western Frontier
(2015-08-01)This paper was delivered at the Remaking North American Sovereignty conference held in Banff, Canada, July 30-August 1, 2015. -
Drilling Down: Can Historians Operationalize Koselleck’s Stratigraphical Times?
(2015)According to Reinhart Koselleck, in every moment a congeries of “temporal strata” are effectively co-present, but not necessarily coherent, hence the “simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous.” Contrast this with the notion of ... -
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
(2015)In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, ... -
Water and Social Space: Using georeferenced maps and geocoded images to enrich the history of Rio de Janeiro's fountains
(2014)Water infrastructure is essential to any city, but especially so in the history of Rio de Janeiro. Historically, Rio de Janeiro lacked easy access to fresh water. Not only was it not situated along a river but it was ... -
Elusive Neutrality: Christian Humanitarianism and the Question of Palestine, 1948-1967
(2014)This article examines the history of Protestant humanitarian interventions on behalf of Palestinian refugees between 1948 and 1967. Deeply concerned with Arab suffering, Protestant churches organized under the World Council ... -
Remembering Henry: Refugeed Slaves in Civil War Texas
(2014)These are the prepared remarks for a talk at the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting in Atlanta, originally entitled "Refugeed Slaves and the Confederate Rehearsal for Reconstruction." The paper was part of a panel on New Perspectives ... -
Santa Barbara, Physics, and the Long 1970s
(2013-09)The adaptations of a group of Southern California physicists to the trying conditions of the 1970s anticipated some of the important 21st-century trends in the discipline. -
From Materials Science to Nanotechnology: Institutions, Communities, and Disciplines at Cornell University, 1960-2000
(2013)During the last several decades, interdisciplinary research centers have emerged as a standard, powerful tool for federal funding of university research. This paper contends that this organizational model can be traced to ... -
'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford
(2013)Stanford, more than most American universities, transformed in the early Cold War into a research powerhouse tied to national security priorities. The budgetary and legitimacy crises that beset the military- industrial- ... -
Failures to Compute
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Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map
(2012)Is the anonymous painted map of the world, dated c. 1506 in the Bavarian State Library, also known as the "Four Finger" world chart, or as the Kunstmann II, authored by Amerigo Vespucci? The map was a privately-held, highly ... -
How the Book of Changes Arrived in the West
(2012)In several respects the transmission of the i ching (or book of changes) to the West parallels the process by which Buddhism and Daoism traveled to Europe and the Americas. In each case Western “missionaries” played a part ...
