PUBLISHED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

(2023) “Marrying the radical, the conventional, and the mystical: Mathematics, gender and religion in the lives of William Kingdon and Lucy Lane Clifford,” Endeavour n.s. 47(4): 100901-100901. In special issue Calculating Couples: Domesticity and Gender in the Making of Mathematical Careers, edited by David E. Dunning and Brigitte Stenhouse.

(2020) with Bernard Lightman and Parandis Tajbakhsh “From Conflict to Complexity: Historians and Nineteenth Century Public Perceptions of Science and Religion” in Identity in a Secular Age: Science, Religion and Public Perceptions, ed. Fern Elsdon-Baker and Bernard Lightman, University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 13-29.

(2019) “Darwin’s Publisher: John Murray III at the intersection of science and religion” in Rethinking History, Science and Religion: An Exploration of Conflict and the Complexity Principle, ed. Bernard Lightman, University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 110-128.

(2015) “Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co.” in Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Maria Zack and Elaine Landry (eds), New York: Birkhauser, p. 121-137.

(2013) “Referees, Publisher’s Readers and the Image of Mathematics in Nineteenth Century England” winner of the Peter Isaac Essay Prize, Publishing History 71: 27-67.

(2013) “Taking a Stand: Exploring the role of the scientist prior to the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, 1957” Scientia Canadensis 36: 63-87.

(2008) “Russell, Clifford, Whitehead and Differential Geometry” with Nicholas Griffin, Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. 28: 20-38.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

(2023) W.K. Clifford’s Philosophical areligion informs his Algebra and Geometry (invited), Special Sessions on the History of Mathematics, Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, Boston

(2022) Calculating Couples: W.K. and Lucy Clifford (invited), School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

RESEARCH & TEACHING PUBLICITY

My student won a prize! Shane Wang, who was my student in HPS411 Conceptual Foundations of Mathematics and HPS390 Mathematics up to 1700 got second place in the HOM-SIGMAA student paper contest! His work will be published in the Mathematical Association of America’s Convergence.Rread more about this achievement in “Undergraduate student Shane Wang wins second place in prestigious mathematics contest” by Dr. Pamela Fuentes Peralta, Recent News from IHPST, 21 August, 2024.

Science journalist Dan Falk wrote about my research into John Murray III, the man who published Origin of Species as well as many of Darwin’s other works. One might assume Murray was a naturalist looking to displace natural theology as the dominant worldview, but I contend this was not the case. “Darwin’s publisher didn’t believe in evolution, but sold his revolutionary book anyway,” by Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, February 12, 2020. An amateur geologist himself, Murray wrote a very interesting anonymous book under the pseudonym Verifier, the title being Skepticism in Geology and the Reasons for It. In this book he argued that so-called modern causes (those justifying Lyell’s uniformitarian view of geology, for instance) have no validity. He did not embrace the modern scientific worldview, and in fact, worked against the public adoption of this worldview in his publication ventures.

EDITORIAL PROJECTS

(2020-2023) Editor, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics Bulletin. Responsible for writing, collecting and assembling member and society news, editorials and event listings pertaining to history of mathematics for this biannual publication.

(2014-2017) Editorial Assistant, The Correspondence of John Tyndall (University of Pittsburgh Press). John Tyndall was an English experimental physicist, scientific naturalist, public figure and popularizer of science, avid glacier explorer and mountain climber in the nineteenth century. Among the 7000 letters published in this multi-volume, multi-year editorial project, I transcribed and edited more than 400. Attending bi-weekly editorial team meetings, I helped shape the project’s digital strategy, managed research assistants, wrote scripts about the Tyndall project and edited images for vols. 2-5.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS

(2014-2017) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum, under the direction of co-Principal Investigators Bernard Lightman and Fern Elsdon-Baker