Curriculum Vitae

Jennifer Tucker

Department of HistoryWesleyan University

Middletown, CT 06459

E-mail: abox8p@r.postjobfree.com

Office Phone: 860-***-****

Website: http://jtucker.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Current Position

Associate Professor of History, Wesleyan University (since Fall 2005

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Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wesleyan University

Associate Professor of Science in Society, Wesleyan University

Previously Held Positions

Assistant Professor of History, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and

Science in Society (1998-2005

)

Hixon-Riggs Visiting Professor of History and Science/Technology Studies,

Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA (2009-2010

)

Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities,

California Institute of

Technology, Pasadena, CA (1996-1998

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Education

B.A. with Honors and Distinction, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1988. Major:

Human Biology. Minor: History and Philosophy of Science. Concentration in

Neuropsychology of Vision, Perception and Memory. History of Science thesis,

Bees, Corks, Monsters, and Mites: The Retooling of Discovery in Robert

Hooke s Micrographia (1665).

M. Phil, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Department of History and

Philosophy of Science (British Marshall Scholar, 1988-1990). Thesis: Voyages

of Discovery on Oceans of Air: James Glaisher and Scientific Ballooning in

Victorian England.

PhD, Johns Hopkins University, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (1997).

Science Illustrated: Photographic Evidence and Social Practice in Victorian

England.

Book

Nature Exposed: Photography as Eye Witness in Victorian Science. Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Book Manuscript In Progress

Facing Facts: The Nature of Visual Evidence in Victorian Law and Culture. (150 pp.

completed)

Edited Collections

Editor, Special Theme Issue of History and Theory, Photography and

Historical Interpretation, vol. 48 (December 2009). Introduction: Entwined

Practices: Engagements with Photography in Historical Inquiry, 1-12.

Peer-

Essays in Museum Exhibition Catalogues and Edited Collections

Experiments in Glasshouses: Photographic Portraiture in Scientific London, in

Sun-Limned Portraits: The Photography of Richard Beard & Antoine Claudet, ed.

Geoffrey Batchen. (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, forthcoming 2012).

The Social Photographic Eye, in Brought to Light: Photography of the

Invisible, ed. Corey Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

Shortlisted for the And/Or Prize for Best Book on Photography 2009, London,

UK. Translated into German, Die gesellschaftliche PrAgung des fotografischen

Blicks (Vienna: Albertina Museum, 2008).

BOOK REVIEWS

The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, The Occult, and Communication

Technologies, 1859-1919, by Jill Galvan, for Technology and Culture (forthcoming, fall

2011).

The Civil Contract of Photography (MIT Press, 2008), by Ariella Azoulay, American

Historical Review vol. 116, no. 1(February 2011):

Awards and Honors

British Academy-Huntington Library Fellowship for Study in Great Britain

($2100), Summer 2011

The Curran Fellowship for Study of the Victorian Press from the Research

Society for Victorian Periodicals, ($2500), awarded for UK research, Summer

2011.

Wesleyan Project Grant ($1000), Summer 2011.

Science across the Curriculum Grant for developing a collaborative course

about the history of the search for life on Mars with Prof. Martha Gilmore,

planetary geologist, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan

University.

Andrew W. Mellon Research Stipend for research in Oxford on the visual

activities of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, c. 1930s and

1940s (Summer 2010).

Faculty Fellow, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,

Massachusetts (Fall 2005)

Faculty Research Fellow, Yale Center for British Art (Fall 2003)

Carol A. Baker Memorial Prize for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Research,

Wesleyan University (2001)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant (2000).

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Victorian Studies, Caltech (1996-

1998)

National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant (1995-1996)

Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies

Dissertation Grant (1994-1995)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (1995)

Professional Activities

University of Massachusetts Press.

External Review Committee Member, Science, Technology, and Society

Program, Vassar College (Fall 2011).

Member of the American Historical Association (AHA); History of Science

Society (HSS); North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA); North

American Conference on British Studies (NACBS); Society for Cinema and

Media Studies; Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

Reviewer of manuscripts for: University of Chicago Press, Harvard University

Press, MIT Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University of Minnesota Press,

Routledge, University of California-Berkeley Press, Yale University Press,

Penguin Books, Duke University Press, and Stanford University Press.

Invited Talks and Conference Presentations (since 2005)

The Tichborne Affair and Law on Display in Victorian Visual Culture,

Department of Communications and Science Sciences, University of California,

San Diego, March 12, 2012.

Presentation to the Harvard Photography and History Workshop, Cambridge, MA,

December 2, 2011.

Commenter, Images, History, Technology, Annual meeting of the Society for

the History of Technology. Cleveland, Ohio, November 3-6, 2011.

Law, Identity and the Limits of Photographic Persuasion in Victorian Visual

Culture, Center for Humanities, Wesleyan University, October 3, 2011.

Chair and Commenter, Bodies and Media: Reproducing and Reshaping

Sexuality, Race, and Gender, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians,

Amherst, MA, June 9-12, 2011.

Invited presenter, Tichborne: The Arts of Visual Persuasion in British Law and

Popular Culture, Department of History, Oberlin College, March 17, 2011.

Invited series presenter, Tichborne: The Arts of Visual Persuasion in British Law

and Popular Culture, Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities,

March 10, 2011.

Workshop participant: Feminism and Science: Building Bridges for Research

and Teaching Innovation. Mellon 23 Collaboration Seminar, Scripps College,

Jan. 4-6, 2011.

Commenter, Field of Vision: Visual Culture and Modern British History, North

American Council on British Studies, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 12-14, 2010.

Presenter, Objecting: New Questions and Directions in Material and Cultural

Historical Work, The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale

University, New Haven, CT, Sept. 24-25, 2010.

Organizer, Hixon-Riggs Public Forum for Responsive Science, Technology and

Society, Feb. 18-20, 2010. Title: Science a Moving Image. [This series of

talks, roundtables, and film screenings brought together scientists, filmmakers,

writers, movie industry specialists and scholars together to explore the many ways

in which science s moving images interact and intersect, from films used as

scientific data to scientific documentaries to the incorporation of scientists and

scientific themes in contemporary media.]

Moderator, Session on Home Media and their Projects, an interdisciplinary

symposium on Visible presence: Memory, photography and the historical

imagination at the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams

College, Williamstown, MA, April 30-May 1, 2010.

Participant, Documenting the World, a workshop sponsored by the Archives of

Science Project and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,

January 7-10, 2010.

Chair, Session on Nineteenth-Century Science and Photographic Authenticity,

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 20-22,

2009.

Darwinism and Visual Culture, guest lecture for HIST 189 ( Evolution and

Society ), University of Southern California, Oct. 28, 2009.

Drawing the Line: Reflections on the Historiography of Art-Science Relations

since C.P. Snow, work-in-progress presentation at the History of Science

Colloquium, UCLA, Oct. 2, 2009

Research and Teaching at the Nexus of Science/Technology Studies, Feminist

Studies, and Visual Culture, Women s Union, Pomona College, Oct. 14, 2009.

Picturing Science in the Age of Darwin, WeSeminar, Wesleyan University,

April 18, 2009.

Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture, Art in Context talk, Yale Center for

British Art, April 10, 2009.

Darwin, Natural Sciences, and Victorian Visual Culture, Charles Darwin

Bicentennial Colloquium Series, University of Connecticut -Avery Point, Feb. 10,

2009

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Examples of Wesleyan Service since 2005

Member, Presidential Diversity Task Force: Making Excellence Inclusive

(2010-present).

Member, Divisional Organization Task Force (2011-2012)

Chair, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (2008-2009; 2011-2013)

First Year Initiatives Committee (2010-2011)

Mellon Mays Faculty Mentor (2010-present)

Gender and History Field Advisor, History Department (2005-Present)

Academic Review Committee (2010-2012)

Program Committee, History Department (2010-2011)

Science in Society Program, Faculty Advisor

Review and Appeals Board (2010-2012)

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