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 | | James E. McClellan III | | Professor, History | | Location: | 308 Peirce | | Phone: | 201.216.5395 | | Fax: | 201.216.8245 | | Email: | jmcclell@stevens.edu |
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| | Education | | B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University, 1968 (sic)
M.A. Princeton University, 1973
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1975 M. Eng (h.c.), Stevens Institute of Technology, 1998 |
| | | Research | | History of Science; France in the Old Regime; Science and Colonialism/Imperialism; the Scientific Press; Historiography. |
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| | Experience & Service | |
| | General Information | | Professor. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1993 to present. Associate Professor. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1983-1992. Assistant Professor. Stevens Institute of Technology, 1977-1983. Assistant Manuscripts Librarian, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, 1976-1977. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University and concurrently Lecturer, Department of History, University of North Carolina, 1975-1976. |
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| | Achievements & Professional Societies | |
| | Honors & Awards | | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris; "Directeur d'études," April, 2006. American Philosophical Society, 2003 John Frederick Lewis Award for monograph, Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Academie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1793.
Distinguished Teaching Award, Stevens Alumni Association, Awarded May 31, 2003.
Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. Elected a membre correspondant in June, 2002.
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Sabbatical Research Fellowship, 1999-2000.
World History Association, Book Award for 2000, winner with H. Dorn for Science and Technology in World History, June, 1999.
Jess H. Davis Memorial Research Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, August, 1999.
M.Eng. (honoris causa), Stevens Institute of Technology, awarded September 1998.
Distinguished Teaching Award, Stevens Alumni Association, Awarded May 31, 1997.
Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1995-1996.
"Professeur invite", Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, March - April 1995.
Jess H. Davis Memorial Research Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, September, 1983.
French Government scholarship (Bourse du gouvernement francais), awarded in competition through the Institute for International Education and the Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres; Direction Generale des Relations Culturelles, Scientifiques et Techniques in Paris. 1973-1974. |
| | | Professional Societies | Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Membre correspondant.
History of Science Society, Lifetime Sustaining Member.
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Charter Member.
British Society for the History of Science. Member.
Societe de l'Etude du Dix-Huitieme Siecle. Member.
New York Academy of Sciences. Member, Section for History and Philosophy of Science; Section Advisory Committee Member, 1995-present; co-chair, 2000-2002; chair 2002-2003. |
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| | Selected Publications | |
| Journals
[With David Wade Chambers]. "Science, Nation, Culture in the Caribbean Basin", David Livingstone and Ron L. Numbers, eds., The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 8: Modern Science in National and International Contexts, Cambridge University Press. in press.
James E. McClellan III. (2007). "L’Académie royale des sciences (1666-1793)", Christian Jacob, ed., Lieux de savoir, vol. 1: Espaces et communautés, Albin Michel. pp. 716-36.
[With François Regourd]. (2006). "Moreau de Saint-Méry et la Machine Coloniale", textes réunies par Dominique Taffin , Moreau de Saint-Méry et les ambiguités d’un créole des Lumières, Fort-de-France, Martinique: Sociétés des Amis des archives et de la researche sur le patrimoine culturel des Antilles. pp. 25-38.
James E. McClellan III. (2006). "Gardens and Forests in Colonial Saint Domingue", in Robert Anderson and Karis Hiebert, eds., Gardens and Forests in the Caribbean, Macmillan. pp. 65-86.
James E. McClellan III. (2004). "André Michaux and French Botanical Networks at the End of the Old Regime", in Michael J. Barinski, ed., Castanea: The Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society: Occasional Papers #2: The Proceedings of the André Michaux International Symposium, pp. 69-97.
James E. McClellan III. (2003). "Scientific Institutions and the Organization of Science", Roy Porter, ed. , The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 4: Science in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press. pp. 99-120.
James E. McClellan III. (2002). "Learned Societies", Alan Charles Kors, ed. , Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, New York: Oxford University Press, . 4 vol. 4, pp. 43-47.
James E. McClellan III. (2002). "Les Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1699-1790: Bilan Public et Processus Privés", in Christiane Demeulenaere-Doyère and Éric Brian, eds., Règlement, usages et sciences dans la France de l’Absolutisme, Actes du colloque, [Paris, 8-10 June, 1999, Paris: Tec & Doc Lavoisier, . pp. 453-68.
James E. McClellan III. (2001). "The Mémoires of the Académie Royale des Sciences, 1699-1790: A Statistical Overview", Halleux, McClellan, Berariu, and Xhayet, , Les Publications de l’Académie Royale des Sciences de Paris (1666-1793) , Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. ], vol. 2, pp. 7-36.
[With François Regourd.]. (2001). "The Colonial Machine: French Science and Colonization in the Ancien Régime", in R. MacLeod, ed. , Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise [Osiris 15], Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 31-50.
James E. McClellan III. (2000). "L’Historiographie d’une académie coloniale: Le Cercle des Philadelphes (1784-1793)", Annales historiques de la Révolution française, pp. 77-88.
James E. McClellan III. (2000). "Académie des Sciences (Paris)", in A. Hessenbruch, ed. , Reader’s Guide to the History of Science, London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 1-2.
James E. McClellan III. (2000). "Colonialism and Science", in A. Hessenbruch, ed. , Reader’s Guide to the History of Science, London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 143-44.
James E. McClellan III. (1999). "Sarton, George", in John A. Carraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. , American National Biography, vol. 19, New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 295-97.
James E. McClellan III. (Apr 1999). "Les réseaux savants: Les colonies des Lumières", Les Cahiers de Science & Vie , pp. 153-65.
James E. McClellan III. (1993). "Europe des Académies: Forces centripètes, forces centrifuges", Dix-Huitième Siècle , 23 pp. 153-165.
James E. McClellan III. (1993). "Comparative Perspectives on European Science and New World Societies: A Comment", in A. Lafuente, A. Elena, and M. L. Ortega, eds., Mundializaciòn de la ciencia y culture nacional [Actas del Congreso Internacional «Ciencia, descubrimiento y mundo colonial», Madrid: Doce Calles. pp. 545-553.
James E. McClellan III. (1981). "The Académie Royale des Sciences, 1699-1793: A Statistical Portrait", ISIS, 72 pp. 541-67.
James E. McClellan III. (1979). "The Scientific Press in Transition: Rozier’s Journal and the Scientific Societies", Annals of Science , 36 pp. 425-49.
James E. McClellan III. (1977). "Un Manuscrit inédit de Condorcet: ‘Sur l’utilité des académies’", Revue d’histoire des sciences , 30 pp. 241-53.
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