"The
Chemurgy Movement: Historical and Participation Perspectives"
[co-presented with Mr. Harold Brock], Iowa State University, Ames, October
2004
"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
"Hogs,
Antibiotics, and the Industrial Environments of Postwar Agriculture"
Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2003
"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
"Charles
Herty, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison and the
Search for a Domestic Rubber Crop in Georgia and Florida"
Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, September
2001
"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, Johns Hopkins University,
2001
[co-written with Barbara Kimmelman, Philadelphia University]
