Dr.
James A. Spiller
Department of History
SUNY College at Brockport
(585) 395-5703; Fax: (585) 395-2620
Office: 128 FOB
E-Mail: jspiller@brockport.edu
- Phd University of Wisconsin - Madison, August 1999 - American History
Dissertation: “Constructing America at the Peripheries: The Cultural
Politics of United States Science and Exploration in Outer Space and
Antarctica, 1950s-1990s.”
- MA University of Wisconsin - Madison, May 1994 - American History
- BA Rutgers University - December, 1989
Highest Honors in History and Mathematics
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004.
- George H.W. Bush Foundation Research Grant, 2003.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Research Grant, 2002.
- University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellowship, Fall
1998.
- Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Grant, 1997.
- Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997.
- History of Science Society's Schuman Prize, 1996.
- University of Wisconsin Prize Fellowship, Spring 1995.
- Jacob Javits Fellow, 1991-1994, 1995-1996.
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1988.
- American Environmental History
- American Cultural History
- History of Modern America
- History of Science and Technology in America
Articles:
- Radient Cuisine: The Commercial Fate of Food Irradiation in the
United States, 1950-2000," 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.
- "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.
- "Technological Enclaves," in Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams,
eds., Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.
- "Liberalism's Fifth Way: A Review of Thomas Spragen's Civic
Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Idealism, Humanities
Net, September 2000.
- "American Culture in the Nuclear Age," Wisconsin Magazine of
History, Winter 1998.
| Recent Conference Papers and Other Presentations |
- "The Space Frontier and the Shifting Terrain of American National
Identity," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting,
April 2005.
- "Focusing With Faulty Lenses: The Importance and Limitations
of Historical Inquiry," Keynote Lecture, Strong Museum, Rochester,
NY, March 2004.
- "Predicting the Unintended Consequences of America's Wars"
Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, March 2003.
- "Skyscrapers and Shopping Malls - Urban Heights and SUburban
Sprawl," Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, 2001.
- "Conservative Utopianism and Cold War Therapeutic Culture,"
The Society for Utopian Studies Conference, October 2000.
- "Beyond the Borders of Civilization: American Nationalism in Space
and on Antarctic Ice," American Studies Association Conference, October
1999.
- "A Window on Environmental Consciousness? Popular Media and
the United States Space and Antarctic Research Programs," Biennial
Conference of the American Society for Environmental History, March
1997.
- "Debunking the Tenacious Myth of Scientific and Technological Determinism,"
From Microchip to Mass Media: Culture and the Technological Age, a
Multidisciplinary Conference, De Paul University, May 1996.
- Spiller is working on a manuscript addressing constructions
of national identity through large, federally funded scientific research
and technology projects in post-World War II America.
