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 National Science
Foundation Award #0551418 |
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Ties That Bind: Environment and Technology in History: Workshop: June 2006; University of VA |
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| Investigator(s): |
Stephen Cutcliffe (PI)
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| Sponsor: |
Lehigh University, PA 18015 6107583021
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| Start Date/Expiration Date |
2006-02-15 to 2007-01-31 (amended 2006-01-31) |
| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$22,000 |
| Abstract: PROJECT SUMMARY
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The PI proposes to organize and host a workshop, "Ties that Bind: Environment and
Technology in History," in June 2006. The proposed workshop emerges from a project
initiated by Envirotech, a group composed of environmental historians and
historians of technology, to provide new concepts and approaches in our understanding of
the relationship between technology and nature.
INTELLECTUAL MERIT
The intent is to reflect a more nuanced understanding of technology and the environment, one
that views them not as dichotomized, but rather as overlapping and interactive.Representing Envirotech, the PI, Professor Stephen Cutcliffe of Lehigh University and Dr. Martin Reuss, Senior Historian with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineeers (retiring next April), have signed a contract with the University of Virginia for a collection of essays with the same title as the workshop that will help delineate the intellectual parameters of this newly emerging field. The workshop will bring together the contributors to this volume, along with selected other provocative scholars, in a setting that will promote the cross-fertilization of ideas, thereby improving the focus of the volume. More specifically this interdisciplinary, workshop will:
1. Provide an opportunity for early criticism of drafts and conceptual approaches.
2. Allow for input from non-contributors to the volume.
3. Stimulate further thought on the subject and encourage the ongoing exchange of ideas
among contributors.
BROADER IMPACTS
Broader impacts from the project will involve classroom use in both history of technology
and environmental history courses. It should also be of use in American Studies,
geography, and archaeology classes. Thus, a primary audience is the college undergraduate
and graduate student. However, other audiences are equally important. Academic historians
of technology and of the environment should find this book stimulating. Indeed, it
should provide the basis for a re-evaluation of course syllabi and the ways in which the
scholarly community approaches environmental history and the history of technology.
Finally, the resulting book should do well in commercial bookstores. Engineers,
environmentalists, public works officials, and government decision-makers will find a
conceptual approach that challenges conventional thinking about the interaction of
technology and environment, even influencing policy guidance and project designs. |
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SES - Division of Social and Economic Sciences |
| Award Number: |
0551418 |
| Award Instrument: |
Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Ronald Rainger
SES Division of Social and Economic Sciences
SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
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| NSF Program(s): |
Hist & Philosophy of SET |
| Field Application(s): |
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
UNASSIGNED, 0000 |
| Program Element Code(s): |
1353 |
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