教授
斯托克斯大厅S317室
电话:617-552-8803
电子邮件: conevery.valencius@uc1112.com
ORCID 0000-0002-5513-4407
U.S. environmental history; history of the earth sciences; history of medicine 和 健康; energy history; history of seismology; women’s 健康; history of the U.S. Civil War; travel narratives; the American West; 19th20世纪美国历史
Conevery Bolton Valencius (CON-a-very va-LEN-chus) works on the history of environments, 健康, 和能源. 她获得了博士学位.D. in the 历史 of Science from Harvard University in 1998 和 was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2016. She has earned awards from the Society of American Historians 和 the 历史 of Science Society. In February 2022 she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Valencius is the author of two books: The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves 和 Their L和 (2002, 基本的书), which won the 2003 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental 历史, 和 The Lost 历史 of the New Madrid Earthquakes (2013, University of Chicago Press).
Valencius is currently finishing a book about earthquakes 和 contemporary US energy which she is co-writing with science journalist Anna Kuchment of the 波士顿环球报. Her recent projects include a history of the Cape Ann earthquakes, an article about the influential 1927 World War I film 翅膀, 和 descriptive panels for the newly-donated Lynch Collection artworks soon to be installed at BC’s McMullen Museum.
Along with two scientist colleagues, Valencius recently received a grant from BC’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science 和 Society to study the history 和 impact of injection wells, a waste-disposal technology linked to induced earthquakes.
Valencius teaches fabulous BC undergrads in courses including “Powering America,” a six-credit Core course on the history 和 technology of US energy systems which she co-teaches with two scientists. Her other courses include “Leeches to Lasers: Health 和 Medicine in the US” 和 “This L和 is Your L和: US Environmental 历史.” She is co-convenor of the “Bodies 和 Places” grad/faculty working group in the 历史 部门 和 works to support the energetic programming of the 程序 in Environmental Studies 和 the Schiller Institute.
The Lost 历史 of the New Madrid Earthquakes (The University of Chicago Press, 2013, paperback, 2014). “暑期推荐书:” 自然, 2014.
“The Health of the Country:” How American Settlers Understood Themselves 和 Their L和. (Basic Books, 2002). 2003 George Perkins Marsh Prize 和 the 1999 Allan Nevins Prize.
“翅膀 (1927): Aviation, War, 和 Energy,” in 美国能源电影院, ed. Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, 和 Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, coming out spring 2023 with West Virginia University Press.
“John Winthrop’s Lecture on Earthquakes (1755) 和 ‘Pestilential Distempers’ Caused by Environmental Disruption,” in “The 历史 of Contagion in Harvard Library Collections,” a project responding to the COVID p和emic (July 2021).
Science in Early America: Print Culture 和 the Sciences of Territoriality, 大卫一世. Spanagel, Emily Pawley, Sara Sidstone Gronim, 和 Paul Lucier, 早期共和国杂志, 36, no 1. (2016春季):73-123.
专栏, 阿肯色州民主党公报》, “Stop Pretending: State has quakes; be prepared,” 14 August 2015.
Teaching Chekhov as Environmental 历史: Sakhalin Isl和 和 Cold Climates, 在迈克尔C. Finke 和 Michael Holquist, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Anton Chekhov, MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series (NY: Modern Language Association, 2016): 171-178.
Accounts of the New Madrid earthquakes: personal narratives 和 seismology over the last two centuries, 在黛博拉R. 科恩,艾德., Witness to Disaster: Earthquakes 和 Expertise in Comparative Perspective的特刊 语境中的科学, 25, no. 1(2012年2月):17-48.
Sacagawea’s “Cold”: Pregnancy 和 the Written Record of the Lewis 和 Clark Expedition, 与Peter J. 卡斯托尔, Bulletin of the 历史 of Medicine 82(夏季2008):276-310. Awarded the 2012 Awarded the 2012 历史 of Science Society Margaret Rossiter 历史 of Women in Science Prize.
“The Forgotten Earthquakes that Reshaped America,” Colloquy podcast of the 太阳城官网生 School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University, April 2022.
The New Madrid earthquakes in Arkansas 历史, Arkansas Humanities Council podcast by Dr. 希瑟·麦克纳米,2021年5月.
“Getting Sick 和 Getting Well: How Americans Have Understood Disease 和 Health,” COVID-era conversation with Patty Limerick at Colorado’s Center of the American West, 1 Oct 2020.
U.S. Grant 历史 Chat with Park Ranger Nick Sacco, 11 June 2020 of the Ulysses S. 格兰特国家历史遗址.