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History Faculty

Dr. James Spillerspiller

Office: 128 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.5703
E-Mail: jspiller@brockport.edu

Specialization

  • Modern American History, Cultural History

Education

  • Phd University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1999 - American History
  • BA Rutgers University - December, 1989

Awards and Honors

  •  SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004.
  • Research Grants from the Presidential Library Foundations of George H.W. Bush (2003); Lyndom B. Johnson (2002); and Gerald R. Ford (1997).
  • Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997. 
  • History of Science Society's Schuman Prize, 1996. 
  • Jacob Javits Fellow, 1991-1996. 

Courses Taught

  • Modern American History Survey
  • History of Science and Technology in America
  • Modern American Dream: Economics and U.S. Society
  • Undergraduate Research Methods
  • Modern American Cultural History
  • American Environmental History
  • America since 1929
  • Graduate Reading Seminar in Modern American History

Publications

  • "International Science in Antarctica," in David N. Livingstone and Ronald L. Numbers eds., Modern Science in National and International Context. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.)
  • "Imagining American Science and Technology," in T. Gregory Garvey and Anna Maslenikova eds., American Studies Reader (St. Petersberg, 2006).
  • "Radiant Cuisine: The Commercial Fate of Food Irradiation in the United States," Technology and Culture, October 2004.
  • "This is War! : Network Radio and World War II Propaganda in America" - in review by Journal of Radio Studies, June 2004.
  • "Re-Imagining U.S. Antarctic Research as a Defining Endeavor of a Deserving World Leader, 1957-1991," Public Understanding of Science, January 2004.

Conferences and Presentations

  • "Focusing With Foggy Lenses: The Importance and Limitations of Historical Inquiry," Keynote Lecture, Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, March 2009.
  • "Outer Space, Antarctica and Changing Sentiments about American Exploration," Organization of American Historians Conference, March 2008.
  • "The Greatest Legacy of the IGY: Antarctic Science as a Force for Peaceful Internationalism," The International geophysical Year: A 50-Year Retrospective (part of the IUGG Conference), July 2007.
  • "Documenting Science and Technology in the Digital Age," Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, April 2005
  • "The Space Frontier and the Shifting Terrain of American National Identity," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2005.

Current Projects

  • Dr. Spiller is working on a manuscript on the cultural politics of, federally-funded scientific research and technology projects in post-World War II America.

 

 

Last Updated 7/21/10

News

Two History Faculty receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards for 2012!

Five history students have won campus-wide awards for the 2011-2012 year!

History student Judith Littlejohn interviewed about her love of history and how it led to a job as the curator for the Elba museum

Dr. Macpherson gives the keynote lecture in the Belize at 30 Conference, the final event in the celebrations of Belize's Independence 

Events

There will be no department events until the Fall term.  History faculty will be present at SOAR events, however, to assist new transfers and late admits. 

Best wishes for a fun and productive summer.