2004 WHEATS Meeting
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presenters:
Etienne S. Benson (MIT), "Cyborg Wildlife: Radio-tracking and the American Relationship to Wild Animals, 1955-1980"
Richard M., Mizelle, Jr. (Rutgers), "Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood Disaster, Race, and the Remaking of Regional Identity, 1900-1930"
Lauren Nauta (University of Pennsylvania), "Fighting Disease with Disease: Social Struggle and the Making of Prophylactic Practice in the Punjab Plains, 1870-1930"
Clare M. Norcio (Brandeis), "Maps and Memoirs: The Ordnance Survey and Land Use in Ulster, 1824-1840"
Jamie L. Pietruska (MIT), "Every man his own weather-clerk!’: Weather Information Systems, Local Communications Technologies, and a National Weather Service for Agriculture, 1870-1891"
Hanna Rose Shell (Harvard), "Casting Life, Recasting the Environment: Bernard Palissy’s Occupation Between Maker and Nature"
Brian Shillinglaw (Yale), "Epistemological Change and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century England"
Jeremy Vetter (University of Pennsylvania), "Aridity, Agricultural Science, and American Expansion: Founding and Developing the North Platte Station in the U.S. Central Plains, 1904-1920"