Presentations/Conference
Papers
"Managing Strategic Resources: The Struggle for a Natural Rubber Reserve in the American West"
"Plant Science
on the Grand Scale: The Emergency Rubber Project of World War II"
Agricultural History Symposium, Cornell University, September 2004
"The Living
Soil: Soil Bacteria, Ecology, and Social Cooperation"
American Phytopathological Society, Anaheim, August 2004
"Big
Oil vs. Small Farmers:
The Defeat of Chemurgy and Rise of Synthetic Rubber in World War II"
American Society of Environmental History, March 2003
"Antibiotics
and the Industrial Environments of the Postwar Pig"
Industrializing Organisms Conference, Rutgers University, 2002
"International
Science and Local Control:
The Agricultural Sciences and Baltic German Identity,"
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Baltimore, 2002
"Thomas
Edison and the Search for a Domestic Rubber Crop:
A Study in the Conflicts of Agricultural and Technological Research"
Society for the History of Technology, 2001
"The
Origins of 'Farm-aceuticals' : How Antibiotics Came to Be Used in Agriculture"
Conference on Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics, John Hopkins University,
2001
"Patriotism
and Profit:
Nationalism and the Agricultural Sciences in the German States, 1810-1850"
German Studies Association, 2000
"State
of the Art: The History of Technology and Science"
Organization of American Historians, Midwestern Regional Conference, 2000
"International
Science on the Fringes: Agricultural Science
and the Language and Culture of Internationalism"
History of Science Society, 1999
"Scientific
Education and Rural Culture:
The Dissemination of Agricultural Science and the German Rural Public, 1830-1900
"
CORN Conference on Rural Institutions in the North Sea Area,
Wageningen, the Netherlands, 1999
"'Our
Friends Who Live in the Soil' :
Soil Bacteria, Government Science, and the Legume Inoculation Industry"
American Society for Environmental History, 1997
"The Beneficient
Bacteria of Nitro-Culture:
The History of Legume Inoculation Industries in Germany and the United States"
History of Science Society, 1996 [delivered in absentia]
"Hermann
Hellriegel und die Amerikaner" [keynote address, in German],
"Internationale wissenschaftliche Konferenz anläßlich des
10. Todestages von Prof. Dr. Hermann Hellriegel" Bernburg, Germany,
1995