Rachel Mason Dentinger portrait
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Philosophy
  • Assistant Professor, History
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Professional Service

  • International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Role: Member. Grene and Callebaut Prize Committees. 10/01/2023 - present
  • Archives of Natural History. Manuscript review. 01/24/2023 - 03/10/2023
  • Linda Hall Library. Review, rate, and meet to discuss applicants for residential and remote fellowships at the Linda Hall Library. 03/07/2022 - 03/07/2022
  • Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Manuscript review. 01/13/2022 - 11/14/2022

Internal Service

  • Liaison for the History Student Association, Honors College, and Phi Alpha Theta. 08/21/2023 - present. College service.
  • Intellectual Life Committee. 08/21/2023 - 04/30/2024. College service.
  • Intellectual Life Committee. 08/23/2021 - 05/04/2022. College service.
  • Undergraduate Committee. 08/23/2021 - 05/04/2022. College service.

Outreach

  • “’The Most Coevolutionary Animal of Them All’: Turning ‘esoteric’ biological theory into lessons for humanity’s survival in the 1970s & 1980s,” Salt Lake Oasis Secular Community. Invited public talk. 10/01/2023 - present

Honors & Awards

  • Faculty Fellow in the Tanner Humanities Center. Tanner Humanities Center, 08/22/2022
  • Taft-Nicholson Center Faculty Fellow: Residential fellowship at the Taft-Nicholson Center in Centennial Valley. Taft-Nicholson Center, 07/01/2022
  • Environmental Humanities Research Professorship. Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, 08/23/2021

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