CURRICULUM VITAE (Older Material)
Peter Taylor
Contents:
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS |
TEACHING and ADVISING |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Rockefeller Fellowship, Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture,
Rutgers University, 1996
American Council of Learned Societies, International Travel Award, 1995
Summer travel grants, Cornell International Institute for Food Agriculture and
Development, 1992, 1993
Hewlett Fund, Cornell Center for Environmental Research, Seed Grant for Program
on Social Analysis of Environmental Change, 1990
Visiting Lectureship, Academy of Finland, 1988
Wantrup Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1987, 1988
National Research Council nominee to the 8th International Congress for Logic,
Methodology & Philosophy of Science
Mellon Fellowship, Science, Technology & Society Program, M.I.T, 1985
Harvard University Committee on Undergraduate Education, Certificate of
Distinction in Teaching, 1985
Summer Research Fellowship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1984
Cornell University
(See also statement and portfolio describing this teaching.)
Biology and Society: The Social Construction of Life
Social Analysis of Ecological Change
Investigative Research on the Social Impact of Science
Statistical Analysis for the Life Sciences
Science and Social Theory (Themes: Structure & agency; Changing ideas of
nature)
Ecology and Social Change (Freshman writing seminar)
Visualizing the Dynamics of Science
Graduate student committees and independent studies in History & Philosophy
of Science & Technology, Science & Technology Studies, Development
Sociology, Professional Studies, City and Regional Planning, Natural
Resources
Faculty Mentor for Graduate student teaching freshman writing seminars,
1992-96.
Other courses taught at other Institutions:
Ecologists as social critics
Interpreting Nature and Society in the Twentieth Century
Social Constructions of Nature
Making sense of measurement: A critical introduction to statistics
Evolution: Synthesis and controversy in biology
International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology:
Program Committee, 1987-89
Executive Council & Program Officer, 1989-91
President-Elect, 1993-95; President, 1995-97
Organizer or co-organizer of sessions "Shifting frames in history, philosophy,
and social studies of biology" (plenary session) and "Making sense of
biologists making diagrams" in 1989; "Ecology in changing environments" and
"Teaching interdisciplinary studies of biology" in 1991; "Changing Life in the
New World Dis/order" in 1993; "The politics of conservation" in 1995; "Biology
and agents without history" (plenary session) in 1997.
Science as Culture, editorial board, 1997-; guest co-editor for special edition
on "Ecological science and Environmental Politics," 1997-98.
Environment and History, guest co-editor for special edition on "The politics
of the conservation of nature, 1995-97.
Social Text, guest collaborating editor, special section of no. 42, on "Science
studies," 1994-95.
Biology and Philosophy, guest editor of special issue on "Pictorial
Representation in Biology," 1989-91
Society for Social Studies of Science: Organizer of "Reworking agency; working in
other agents" & co-ordinator of "Science studies & social theory"
sessions, 1994; Co-organizer of "Science studies and social theory: Reciprocal
animations?" sessions, 1993.
History of Science Society: Organizer of "Human ecologies: New perspectives"
session at the 1993 meetings.
American Sociological Association, Section on Scientific Knowledge and
Technology: Council Member 1993-96; Returning Officer 1994; Prize Committee
1994-95; Co-organizer of "Science, Technology, Work organization & Global
restructuring" session, 1995.
Reviewer:
American Naturalist; Biology & Philosophy; Ecology; Environment and
History; Geoforum; Public Understanding Of Science; Science; Science as
Culture; Science in Context; Science, Technology & Human Values; Social
Studies of Science; Synthese; Theoretical Population Biology
Harvard University Press; Routledge; SUNY Press; Brooks/Cole
National Science Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities
"Infusing sustainability into the curriculum at UMass Boston," Education for Sustainable Development Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, October 2003.
"Collaborative generation of Environmental Knowledge," Middle East Environmental Futures Project, Brown University, July 2003.
"Reflection, dialogue, and organization as parts of taking initiative to build a professional development learning community," Watershed-Integrated Sciences Partnership, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 2003.
"The hidden complexity of simple models, or Why theorists of all kinds should be troubled by unmodeled variables having dynamical lives of their own," Symposium in Honor of Richard Levins, Harvard University, June 2000; Philosophy Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 2003.
"Complexity vs. simplicity in teaching about environment, science, and society," Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, March 2003.
"Reconstructing unruly ecological complexities: From knowing to practising to engaging," Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, October 2002; Boston University Philosophy of Science Colloquium, March 2003.
"Using Acrobat to make PDF compilations," for session on "Teaching with instructional technology" at the "Teaching for Transformation" conference, University of Massachusetts, Boston, January 2003.
"Flexible engagement and open questions," Society for Social Studies of Science, November 2002.
"Genes, gestation, and life experiences: Environmental complexities in the Age of DNA," International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 1999; University of California, San Francisco, April 2002; Society for Social Studies of Science, November 2001.
"Unruly Ecological Complexities, Diagrams and Reflective Practitioners," Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2002.
"How do we know there is a population-environment problem?" Science-in-society, society-in-science workshop, University of Massachusetts, Boston, July 1999; Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2002.
"Assisting others in ecological reconceptualization," Workshop on Handbook of Ecological Concepts, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, October 2002.
"Opening up the social dimensions of biocomplexity through case studies and ill-defined problems," BioQuest workshop on Teaching College Biology, Beloit College, June 2002.
"New Directions in Fostering Critical Thinking," Workshop for the Center for Improvement of Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 2002.
"Yes, computers could do that, but why would you want them to? (Towards guidelines about specific situations and specific ways in which specific technologies are of significant pedagogical benefit)," Teaching with Media Workshop, Instructional Technology Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 2002.
"Teaching with evolving tools: A lot about learning, a little about technology," panel member, "Teaching for Transformation" conference, University of Massachusetts, Boston, January 2002.
"Building transversal bridges between the social and the natural sciences," keynote speaker and workshop leader at the University of Coimbra symposium on "Research and the University," Portugal, January 2002.
"Generating environmental knowledge and inquiry through workshop processes," Session on "Innovative Educational Technology" at the Society for Social Studies of Science, November 2001.
"The limits of ecology and the re/construction of unruly complexity," Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, October 2001.
"No units anywhere, anytime? Multiple causality, intersecting processes, and ecology as a historical science," International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 2001.
"Fostering Critical Thinking, especially about Biology-in-Society," Workshop on Teaching History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 2001.
"Building a Professional development Learning Community," and "Developing Unit Plans for Inquiry- and Problem-based Learning," Workshops for Eisenhower Professional Development Program in the South River/South Coastal Watershed, November 2001 and May 2001.
"Intersecting Processes and Reflexive Practitioners," Commentary on Session "Critical Perspectives on the use of GIS/Remore Sensing Techniques in People-and-Environment Research," Association of American Geographers, February 2001.
"Who is implicated and where are they engaged? Re/constructing social agency in the diagramming of social-natural processes," Conference on "Taking Nature Seriously," University of Oregon, February 2001 and University of Tampere, May 2001 (with C. London).
"Fostering critical thinking through attention to the inter- and intrapersonal," Center for Excellence in Teaching and Writing, Oregon State University, February 2001.
"Process and product in the generation of environmental knowledge and inquiry: A comparison of four innovative workshops," Department of Environmental, Coastal, and Oceanic Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, November 2000.
"Generative Tensions in Science," Thinktank for Community-college teachers of critical thinking, University of Massachusetts, Boston, November 2000.
"Critical Incidents in Teaching," Workshops for the Center for Improvement of Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April and October 2000.
"How the commons becomes 'tragic': Teaching about the hidden complexity of simple models to students and environmental researchers," University of Sydney, July 2000.
"Knowledge-making, social agency, and complexity in environmental analysis," University of Tampere, Finland, May 2000.
"Alternating between teacher and facilitator," International Association of Facilitators, Toronto, April 2000.
"What can agents do?: Engaging with complexities of the post-Hardin commons," Harvard University, March 1999, University of California, Santa Cruz, May 1999, Yale University, October 1999, University of California, Berkeley, February 2000.
"Making the Implicit Explicit: Working to Understand and Expand Students' Conceptions of Academic Work," Panel presentation/workshop, Conference on Teaching and Transformation, University of Massachusetts, Boston, January 2000.
"How do we know there is a population-environment problem?" Science-in-society, society-in-science workshop, University of Massachusetts, Boston, July 1999.
"The challenges of integrating ecology into evolutionary theory," BioQuest workshop on Teaching College Biology, Beloit College, June 1999.
"Critical Thinking," Honors Faculty Development Workshop for Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, June 1999.
"How can one address complexity to facilitate 'reorganizing'?," Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, U.N.A.M., México, November 1998.
"What can agents do?: Reflections on post-Hardin commons discourse," Workshop on "Old and new directions in 'Commons' research," Rutgers University, February 1997, Society for Social Studies of Science, October 1988.
"How can we make complexity facilitate social change?," International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, October 1998.
"How do we know we have global environmental problems? Critical thinking about environment, science, and society," University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 1998.
"Reframing environmental analysis so as to multiply the possible sites of social mobilization: The population-environment relation reexamined," Antioch College, March 1998.
"How do we know we have global environmental problems? (And how can we make complexity facilitate social change?)," Swarthmore College, February 1998.
"When the developing `system' is not coherent or well bounded:
Socio-environmental change and `intersecting processes'," International Society
for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 1997.
"Getting beyond 'anti-science' -- Contributions of science studies to studies
of environment and development," Wesleyan University, April 1997.
"Ecosystems as circuits: Diagrams and a new research program for the social
construction of environmental research," Biology Department, Swarthmore
College, February 1997.
"Science and the globalization of environmental discourse: Constructions,
deconstructions, and possible reconstructions," New York Academy of Sciences,
February 1997; Columbia University, April 1997.
"Shifting positions for knowing and intervening in the cultural politics of the
life sciences," Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers
University, January 1997.
"Exploring ambiguity and critical thinking through a class simulation on the
Tragedy of the Commons," International Society for Exploring Teaching
Alternatives, October 1996.
"Mapping sites of negotiation in intersecting social and ecological worlds,"
Workshop on "Making sense of the ecology-society interface," Pori, Finland,
August 1996 and Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers
University, January 1997.
"Political ecology and the changing nature of social theory," Workshop on
Political Ecology, University of Amherst, May 1996 and Workshop on
"Human/Social/Political/Liberatory Ecology," Pori, Finland, August 1998.
"Re/constructing agency (and other important things) in the diagramming
of social-natural relations," Society for Social Studies of Science, October 1995
(with C. London).
"Building on construction: An exploration of heterogeneous constructionism,"
American Sociological Association, August 1995.
"Political ecology and science studies," Invited commentary for session on "The
environmental imperative" at the Mellon Foundation workshop on the History and
Social Studies of Modern Life Sciences, MIT, May 1995.
"From political ecology in Mexico to engaged constructionism in the United
States," Science & Technology Studies Dept., Rensselaer Polytechnic, April
1995.
"From environmentalism to political ecology: Towards a framework for
understanding changes at agricultural-rain forest borders in Mexico," Geography
Department, University of California, Berkeley and Latin American Studies
Program, Cornell University, November 1994; American Assoc. Geographers, March
1995.
"Historiography of ecology," Workshop on Environmental History, University of
California, Berkeley, November 1994.
"Shifting frames" Invited commentary for session on "Integrating cognitive and
social approaches to scientific change" Philosophy of Science Association,
October 1994.
"Heterogeneous constructionism as a challenge to science studies and social
theory" Society for Social Studies of Science, October 1994.
"Is transgression good," Invited commentary for session on "Feminism
confronting science studies" American Sociological Association, August 1994.
"Ecosystems as circuits: Diagrams and the limits of physical analogies," Social
Dimensions of Science Program, Indiana University, April 1994.
"The dynamics of socio-environmental change and the limits of neo-Malthusian
environmentalism," Rural Sociology Department, Cornell University, April 1994,
and Workshop on "Limits to Markets: Equity and the Global Environment," May
1994.
"The social analysis of ecological change: From systems to intersecting
processes," History of Science Society, November 1993 and to "The Nature
of Science Studies".workshop, Cornell University, April 1994.
"Unruly complexity and a critique of the concept of system in ecological
theory," Santa Fe Institute, November 1993.
"The integration of science studies and political ecology into environmental
studies: `Heterogeneous construction,' `unruly complexity,' and `trans-local
dynamics'" Cornell University, October 1993.
"What's (not) in the minds of scientific agents: Implicit models of the
psychology of agents in science studies" International Society for History,
Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 1993; Society for Social
Studies of Science, November 1993.
"From natural selection to natural construction to unruly complexity: The
challenges of integrating ecology into evolutionary theory" 29th Annual
Philosophy Colloquium, University of Cincinnati, May 1993; International
Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, July 1995.
"Taking social construction seriously: Environmental studies meets social
studies of science" Cambridge University and M.I.T., March 1993; Cornell
University, September 1993.
"A critique of environmentalism: Recent studies of the political
economies/ecologies of natural resource use in Mexico and West Africa,"
International Studies in Planning, Cornell University, February 1993 and Oxford
Forestry Institute, March 1993.