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Professor (Lecturer), Management Department
Honors & Awards
- Winner of the PCB Award for best first book: "The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History" (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
American Historical Association–Pacific Coast Branch ,
04/2013
In the Media
- Interviewed for a two-episode podcast on Outside/In, a New Hampshire Public Radio podcast (premiered November 2018) . 10/2018.
https://www.nhpr.org/topic/outsidein
- “A long fuse: ‘The Population Bomb’ is still ticking 50 years after its publication,” The Conversation. 07/10/2018.
http://theconversation.com/a-long-fuse-the-populat...
- “The False Alarm over U.S. Fertility," editorial in New York Times, April 17, 2013 (published
online April 16), available at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/opinion/the-false-alarm-over-us-fertility.html; “A Modest Proposal for a New Population Debate” (July 2012), editorial on the webpage for PBS’s Need to Know TV program at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/a-modest-proposal-for-population-control/10420; Interviewed on PBS’s national news magazine Need to Know for a segment on the history of population issues: original aired July 15, 2011, episode streams at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/need-to-know-july-15-2011-california-nuclear-safety-population-control-gloria-steinem/10410/; Interviewed for the documentary The Population Bomb, forthcoming; Eisenhower Presidential Library, forum on the Tea Party and the 2010 elections, October 28, 2010 (broadcast on C-SPAN); Interviewed on Topeka’s NBC affiliate, Channel 27 (nightly news) on the occasion of the U.S. population reaching 300 million (fall 2006); Interviews promoting The State and the Stork, Sept. 2012–Jan. 2013; Issues Today, syndicated in 170 markets; Dressler at Dark (internet show); Mendocino, CA, KZYX (1-hour interview); Burlington, IA, KBUR; Tampa, FL, WMNF; Portland, OR, KPOJ; St. Louis, MO, KDHX; Park City, UT, KPCW; Northampton, MA, WHMP; Meria Heller (internet show; 1-hour); Salt Lake City, UT, KCPW; KZFR, Chico, CA. 03/10/2015.
Professional Service
- Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains .
I reviewed an article for Kansas History.
05/01/2020 - 05/30/2020
- Oxford University Press.
I peer-reviewed a full-length (500-pages plus) manuscript for Oxford University Press.
04/01/2020 - 04/30/2020
- ISIS (a journal of science history) .
I reviewed an article for ISIS -- once in the spring and then, upon revisions, again in the fall.
03/01/2020 - 09/30/2020
- Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains .
Role: Editorial Board Member .
I continue to serve on the editorial board of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. I reviewed articles for the journal and participated in key discussions surrounding the search for a new editor.
01/2019 - 12/2019
- Online Journal or Rural Research and Policy .
Member, Editorial Board .
07/01/2016 - present
- Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains .
Member, Advisory and Editorial Committee .
07/01/2014 - present
- Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains.
Book Review Editor
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01/01/2012 - 06/01/2015
- Social Science History Association.
Member, Allan Sharlin Book Prize Committee (2012 and 2013 awards)
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06/01/2011 - 11/01/2013
Internal Service
- In 2023 I joined the University of Utah's Academic Appeals/Misconduct Committee.
member,
07/01/2023 - present.
University service.
- I continue to coordinate the Management Department's interdisciplinary Qualitative, Historical, and Field Research seminar. I plan the schedule, solicit and secure papers, and run the sessions.
Organizer,
01/2022 - 02/2022.
Department service.
- I continue to coordinate the Management Department's interdisciplinary Qualitative, Historical, and Field Research seminar, which returned in the fall of 2021 after a year's Covid hiatus .
08/01/2021 - 12/31/2021.
College service.
- In 2019 I continued to coordinate the Management Department Qualitative, Historical, and Field Research brownbag, recruiting and selecting the presenters and maintaining the email list, etc. We enjoyed a full slate of monthly seminars during the 2019.
Coordinator,
01/2019 - 12/2019.
Department service.
- Helped launched and now coordinate the Management Department's monthly Qualitative, Historical, and Field Research Seminar.
09/2018 - present.
Department service.