Roger Turner

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Research: Conference Sessions

I have organized several conference sessions to highlight emerging questions in the history of science.

(Image: A graphic depiction of the frequency of the words in my dissertation chapter on which "Keeping Meteorology Masculine" is based.)

Drawing in Print Culture: Why Cartoons Matter to the History of Science

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 22, 2009, Phoenix, AZ.
Session Abstract

  • "Science Most Attenuated: The Entertaining and Educational Development of Television Weather Cartoons," Roger Turner, University of Pennsylvania
  • "Demonizing Evolution: Fundamentalist Cartoons from the Scopes Era ," Edward B. Davis, Messiah College.
  • "Graphic Tales of Cancer in Modern America," JTH Connor & Michael Rhode, National Library of Medicine
  • Commentator: Constance Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Chair: Bert Hansen, CUNY.

From Dissertation to Book

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. November 7, 2008. (Co-organized with Jacqueline Wernimont, Brown University). Sponsored by the HSS Graduate Student and Early Career Caucus.
Session Abstract

  • Karen Darling, University of Chicago Press.
  • Marguerite Avery, The MIT Press.
  • Doreen Valentine, Rutgers University Press.

The Public Faces of Weather

Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life Conference, International Commission for History of Meteorology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. May 29, 2008.
Session Abstract

  • "Forecasters on Trial: The U.S. Weather Bureau’s Public Verification of Weather Forecasting at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Jamie Pietruska, Ph.D. Candidate, Science, Technology and Society Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • "From Galveston 1900 to New Orleans 2005: The process and people involved in disseminating U.S. hurricane warnings," Robert Henson, Writer and Media Relations Associate, University Corporation For Atmospheric Research
  • "Keeping Meteorology Masculine: The American Meteorological Society’s Response to TV “Weather Girls” in the 1950s," Roger Turner, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  • "TV Weathercasters as Station Scientists," Kris M. Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Journalism Program, Emory University

Environmental Science as Industrial Research

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 3, 2007, Crystal City, VA.. Sponsored by the HSS Earth and Environment Forum.
Session Abstract

  • "Developing the American West: Agricultural Sciences and the 'Land Industry' in the Railroad Era." Jeremy Vetter, Assistant Professor, Dickinson College
  • "The Origins of Economic Geology: S.F. Emmons and the USGS in Leadville." Paul Lucier, Independent Scholar
  • "'What is Industrial Forestry?" Pushing the Boundaries of Forest Science in the Interwar Years. Emily Katherine Brock, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Stanford University
  • "A Science and Industry of the Air: Airline Meteorology, 1919-1941." Roger Turner, PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania
  • Commentator and Chair: Helen Rozwadowski, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut-Avery Point

 

 

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