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I am a doctoral student in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. I am currently working on a dissertation about Robert Owen, the early nineteenth-century utopian socialist, and how (and why) he incorporated ideas about the history of mankind in the creation of his cooperative communities of New Lanark (pictured above), New Harmony, and Queenswood.

Although I am working hard on my dissertation, I’ve taken a bit of time this year to teach two courses, “HSCI 3550: Science and the Holocaust,” and one of my department’s surveys, “HSCI 3023: History of Science Since 1750″. Teaching is the reason I’m in this business, and I’ve really enjoyed my students this year and when I was teaching at the University of South Carolina in Aiken in the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy/Religion.

I am from Augusta Georgia, where I attended Davidson Fine Arts School, but I have lots of connections to the Old North State, like my alma mater, Salem College. I have always liked history and am not surprised to find myself pursuing it as a career, even though I’ve taken rather substantial detours into creative writing and field biology. I call them detours, but the more I come to understand, the more I realize that the detours are the actual roads.