DAVID WADE CHAMBERS

Address: Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Date of Birth: 21 June 1938,
Geelong, Victoria, Australia 3217 Place of Birth: Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Phone: 61 3 5227 1333, Fax: 61 3 5227 2018, Email: wade@deakin.edu.au

Residence: P.O. Box 73, Airey's Inlet, Victoria, 3221, Australia.

Phone or Fax: 61 3 5289 7044

QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. (Harvard University) History of Science 1969.
Pre-doctoral Fellow (Smithsonian Institution) 1967.
A.M. (Harvard) History of Science 1966.
Museum Intern, U.S. National Museum Program (Smithsonian) History and Technology, 1964.
Post-graduate Study (Harvard) Biological Sciences 1960-61.
B.A. (Oklahoma) History and Pre-clinical Medical Sciences 1960.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor (Social Studies of Science) Deakin University (1987-present).
Visiting Professor (Literature Dept.) University of California at San Diego (1991, 1992, 1994).
Visiting Scholar (Museum of History and Technology) Smithsonian Institution (1986).
Senior Lecturer (Social Studies of Science) Deakin University (1977-1986).
Associate Professor (History of Science and Technology), Concordia Univ. (1973-77).
Associate Professor (Social Foundations of Education), McGill Univ. (1973-77).
Assistant Professor (History of Science and Technology), Concordia Univ. (1969-73).
Assistant Professor (History of Science and Technology), Southern Methodist University (1967-69).
Teaching Fellow (History of Technology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1964-1966).
Resident Tutor (History of Science), Leverett House, Harvard University (1964-66).
Assistant Curator (Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments), Harvard (1963-65).
Teaching Fellow (History of Science and Technology), Harvard, (1962-1966).

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Director, Sciences in Society Centre, Deakin University (1990-present)
Chair, Science and Technology Studies MA Course Team, Deakin University (1989-present)
Chair, Social Studies of Science, Deakin (1977-1989).
Chair, Knowledge and Power Course Team, Deakin (1977-1989).
Chair, Science and Human Affairs Program, Concordia University, (1972-77).
Founding Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Concordia Univ. (1972-75).
Director and Professor-in-Residence, Molson Hall, McGill University, (1971-77).

CONSULTATION

Canadian National Film Board, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission, American Broadcasting Company, Harvard Project Physics, Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, US National Museum of History and Technology, Educational Film Library Association, Man and His World (Montreal), US National Museum of American History, US National Museum of the American Indian, University of California, Creative Writing Program, Museum of Chinese/Australian History (Melbourne), Australian House Museum (Geelong), National Wool Museum (Geelong), ScienceWorks (Melbourne), Museum of Victoria (Melbourne), Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), .

GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

National Science Foundation, Harvard Graduate Fellowship, Victor Robinson Award, Canadian Research Council, Australian Research Council, Victorian Education Foundation, Deakin Teaching Development Grant, Mackay Branson Award, Apple University Development Fund, Quality Assurance Award.

PUBLICATIONS (Science and Technology Studies).

In Preparation
With H. Zoqbaum "From the Spanish Grill into the American Frying Pan: Autonomy, Conquest and Science Education in 19th Century Puerto Rico".
With James MaClellan, "History of Science in Central America and the Caribbean," in Cambridge History of Science series, due January, 1998.
"Legislation for Science in Nineteenth Century Mexico", paper read to international conference celebrating 200th anniversary of the School of Mines, Mexico City, 1992.

Refereed Publications
1996: "Centre Looks at Periphery: Alexander von Humboldt's Account of Mexican Science and Technology", Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, July, 1996, pp. 94-113.
1994: "Minería y Política en México: El Caso de la Química (1821-1867)" with P. Aceves, in La Química en Europa y América, ed. P. Aceves México City: UAM, pp 223-254.
1994: "Rethinking Local Science" Sciences in Society Working Papers, No 3. Paper read at Triennial International Congress of the History of Science, Zaragoza, Spain 1993.
1993: "Locality and Science: Myths of Centre and Periphery" in Mundializacion de la ciencia y cultura nacional, eds. A. Lafuente, A. Elena, y M.L.Ortega, Madrid: Ediciones Doce Calles, pp 605 - 617.
1992: "Australia's Museum Powerhouse," Technology and Culture, 33: 548-559.
1992: "Nature and Knowledge in Australia" in Drawing on Nature, ed. Paul Fox, Geelong Art Gallery, 18-22.
1991: "Does Distance Tyrannize Science," in International Science and National Scientific Identity, eds. R. W. Home and S. G. Kohlstedt , Kluwer: 19-38.
1988: "Reading the Hieroglyphs of Nature," in Essays on Perceiving Nature, ed. by D. DeLuca, Honolulu: 3-12.
1987: "Period and Process in National and Colonial Science" in Scientific Colonialism, eds. Nathan Reingold and Marc Rothenberg, Smithsonian Press: 297-322.
1983: "Stereotypic Images of the Scientist: The Draw-a-Scientist Test", Science Education, January: 255-265.
1977: "Red and Expert Reconsidered", Science Forum, December: 14-18.
1974: "Early Science in Quebec," Montreal Education Journal, June: 45-53.
1974: "The Impact of the New Revolutionary Movement on Science in China," Science Forum December,: 3-6. (with R. Faggetter)
1969: "Two stages in the Development of Science in Mexico" (unpub. PhD diss., Harvard University).
1965: "Did the Maya know the Metonic Cycle," Isis, Fall: 348-351.

Textbooks

1992 (editor), At the Bottom of the Vase: Technoscience in Culture and Nature, Deakin University Press
1989 Singing the Land/Signing the Land, DUP. (with Helen Watson)
1986 "Lessons of Lysenko", in Science in Culture, ed. D. Turnbull, DUP
1982 Imagining Nature, DUP, revised edition 1984.
1982 Putting Nature in Order, DUP, rev. ed.1984.
1982 Imagining Landscapes DUP, rev. ed. 1985.
1982 Beasts and Other Illusions, DUP, rev. ed. 1985.
1982 Is Seeing Believing, DUP, rev. ed. 1984.
1979 Worm in the Bud, DUP, 1979, rev. ed., 1983.
1979 On the Social Analysis of Science, DUP, rev. ed., 1984.
1979 Red and Expert, DUP, rev. ed., 1984. 1979 (editor) Liberation and Control, DUP.
1979 "The Ends of Progress" in Liberation and Control, DUP: 7-59. (with Chris Ryan)
1979 (editor) Liberation and Control Reader, (with J. Falk, R. Gillespie and C. Ryan)
1974 Science and Human Affairs: Collaborative Studies, McGill Univ. Press (editor). A modular textbook of 28 units.
1974 "Canadian Science: The Emerging Professional Tradition", Module S-10 of Science and Human Affairs. (with G.Bindon), MUP.
1973 "Technology and the City" Module T-3 of Science and Human Affairs (with .F. Knelman), MUP.
1972 "What is Science", Module S-1 of Science and Human Affairs, MUP.
1971 "The Community of Science", Module S-2 of Science and Human Affairs, MUP. 1972 "Science and Ideology: The Lysenko Affair", Module S-6 of Science and Human Affairs, MUP.
1972 "Scientific Responsibility: New Definitions", Module S-7 of Science and Human Affairs, MUP.
1967 "The New Science," in Twentieth Century Events and Values, ed. M. Terry Southern Methodist University Press, pp. 38-51.

PUBLICATIONS (Education)

1989 "Science Worlds: An Integrated Approach to Social Studies of Science Teaching," Social Studies of Science, 19: 155-79 (with D. Turnbull).
1987 "Science Worlds: Restructuring Undergraduate Teaching in the Social Studies of Science," in Proceedings of the Conference on Science, Technology and Society Programs in Western Europe, North America and Australia (Social Studies of Science Society) (with D. Turnbull).
1980 "The Structure and Context of Science: Agenda for Teaching and Research," Proceedings of the Australian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, No.11: xx-xx.
1979 "Re-imagining Technology," Australian Science Teachers Journal.
1977 "Science, Technology and Society: A Curriculum Review", Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, May: 44-51 (with G. Bindon).
1977 "Out of the Ivory Pagoda and into the Commune: The Popularization of Science in China," Science Forum , February: 33-37. (with .R. Faggetter)
1973 "Collaborative Studies in Science and Human Affairs: A Model for Inter-University Co-operation," University Affairs, March: 1-3, 13-16. Another version of this paper was published separately by UNESCO. (with J. Southin)
1972 "A Free-form Modular Program", in The Context of Biological Education, ed. D. Cox and L. Davis Commission on Undergraduate Education: 100-110. (with J. Southin)
1971 "Project on Modular Course Design," in McGill Conference on University Teaching: Complete Papers, McGill University:.34-36. (with I. Butler,M. Gopnik, & J. Southin)
1971 "Community Outreach in Biology Teaching," Bioscience , September, (with J. Southin)
1971 "Biology and Social Change", in Modules: The Use of Modules in College Teaching, ed J. Creager and D. Murray, Commission on Undergraduate Education: 61-69. (with J. Southin)
1968 "The Film From Now: Technology and the Form of the Art", Espejo, Spring: 41-45.
1966 "History of Science on the Silver Screen," Isis Winter: 494-497.