Networks Symposium Papers
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9:30-10:45am Panel 1: Social Networks
“Science, Skepticism, and Societies: the Politics of Knowledge Creation in the Early Republic”
George Oberle, George Mason University
“Who You Know: How Social and Educational Networks Fostered Professional Identity Among American Doctors, 1780-1815”
Sarah Naramore, The University of the South
“Benjamin Smith Barton's Natural History Network: Local Knowledge and Atlantic Community”
Peter Messer, Mississippi State University
“Planting the Seeds of Empire: Botanical Gardens and Correspondence Networks in Antebellum America”
Alicia DeMaio, Harvard University
Comment: Andrew Shankman, Rutgers University, Camden
11:15-12:15pm Panel 2: Reconstructing Networks
“Spatial Expansion and State Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States”
Cameron Blevins, Northeastern University
“Intertribal Networks in the Colonized American West, 1870-1895”
Justin Gage, University of Arkansas
“Mapping the Networks of African North Americans Hidden in U.S. Government Records: Cases from Pension Files and the Census”
Adam Arenson, Manhattan College
Comment: Maeve Kane, SUNY Albany
2:15-3:15pm Panel 4: Reproducing Networks
“Plagiarism as Dialogue: The Loyalist Historians as Transatlantic Mediators”
Eileen Cheng, Sarah Lawrence College
“Before the Truth Puts its Boots on: Mis-Information Networks in 19th Century America”
Robert MacDougall, University of Western Ontario
“Worlds of Wonder: Tracing Reproductions of Microscopy Illustrations in the Nineteenth Century”
Lea Beiermann, Maastricht University
Comment: Richard John, Columbia University
3:30-4:45pm Panel 5: Networks and Nodes
“From Brussels to Europe: Building a Big Data Set in the Nineteenth Century”
Kevin Donnelly, Alvernia University
“Visualizing 19th and 20th Century Women in Science”
Serenity Sutherland, SUNY Oswego
“The Cybernetic Effect: Soviet Mind Research in the 1960s and 70s”
Ekaterina Babintseva, University of Pennsylvania
“Organizations and Knowledge Networks”
Janet Vertesi, Princeton University
Comment: Robert M. Hauser, Executive Officer, American Philosophical Society