Pat Munday, PhD                                                                   
Professor of Science & Technology Studies                        
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Department
Montana Tech
Butte MT 59701
E-mail: pmunday@mtech.edu
Voice mail: 406.565.1826

Research Interests

• U.S. environmental history with a focus on Superfund, endangered species, and the Western frontier
• Chinese-American history, late 19th and early 20th centuries
  
  

Education

 Cornell University, PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Department of History/Science & Technology Studies). Dissertation title: "Sturm und Dung: Justus von Liebig (1803-73) and the chemistry of agriculture."

• Pearce Williams, committee chair
• Isabel Hull and Margaret Rossiter, committee members
• Languages: German and French

1987-88. Universität Hamburg, Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Technik,1987/88, visiting researcher (Fulbright Scholar/PhD Research) with Professor Dr. Andreas Kleinert.

Cornell University, MA History.

1981. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, MS in Science, Technology and Values (Science & Technology Studies). MS project treatise on the origin, social history and renovation of a 19th century oil producing property in the Bradford Oil Field of Pennsylvania. 

1978. Drexel University, double BS in Engineering (materials) and Humanities (history & philosophy of science).
      
      

Employment Experience

 1990-date: Montana Tech, Butte MT

• Appointment dates
  • 2000: Professor of Science & Technology Studies
  • 1994: Associate Professor
  • 1990: Assistant Professor
• Departments & programs
  • Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, 2019-date; BS degree in IAS
  • Technical Communication Department, 1999-2019; BS and MS degrees in TC
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Department, 1990-1999; BS degree in Society & Technology

Summer 2016-2020: Summer faculty with Yellowstone English/Environmental Studies Program International, Bozeman MT.

Summer 2019: Visiting Professor with the School of History, Culture, and Ethnology, Southwest University (Global Immersion Program), Chongqing PRC.

Spring 2016: Visiting Professor with the School of Geological Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University PRC.

2012-2014: Department Head of Technical Communication. Montana Tech, Butte MT.

Summer 2003-07: Faculty and Steering Committee with “American History Teachers: A New Corps of Discovery” (US Dept of Education Grant administered by Anaconda School District).

1998-99. Visiting Professor with the Mansfield Ethics and Public Affairs Program at the University of Montana-Missoula.

1992-93. Summer Guest Faculty with the Science & Technology Studies Department, Cornell University.

1981-85. Chemist and assistant supervisor with the Control Laboratory, Kendall Refining Division of Witco Chemical Corporation (Bradford PA).

1979-80. Assistant editor for the Engineering Ethics Newsletter, Human Dimensions Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

 

Teaching Experience

1990-date: Montana Tech, Butte, Montana. Technical Communication Department.

Courses taught include:

• Lower Division
  • Freshman Seminar, 2-semester sequence
  • History of Western Civilization I, II (HSTR 101, 102), web-based and F2F
  • Technology & Society, sometimes taught as film class
  • Science & Technology in World History, web-based and F2F
  • Introduction to Ethics
  • Introduction to Logic
  • Presenting Technical Information, web-based and F2F
• Upper Division/Graduate Level
  • Science Writing
  • Nature Writing
  • Professional Ethics, F2F and web-based
    • This was the first fully web-based class taught at Montana Tech (1999).
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Politics of Technical Decisions, designated writing course
  • Undergraduate Research Methods
  • Graduate Research Methods
  • Technology, Communication & Society
  • Environment & Society
  • Environmental Communication
  • History of Science
  • History of Technology
  • History of Warfare
  • Senior Thesis, 2-semester sequence
  • Professional Presentations, graduate level
  • Graduate Seminar, 2-semester sequence
  • Pro-seminar in Communication Ethics, graduate level

Visiting Professor, Southwest University, Chongqing, China (Global Immersion Program; Summer 2019)

• S. Environmental History, graduate level

Fulbright Scholar, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China (Spring 2017)

• S. Environmental History, undergraduate course
• American Culture through Technology & Society, undergraduate course
• Research Methods in the Humanities, guest lectures for graduate course

Visiting Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou China (Spring 2016)

• “Science Writing for English-language journals” course for PhD candidates and post-docs in Geological Sciences (intensive 6-week course)

Fulbright Scholar, Southwest University, Chongqing China (Spring 2012)

• “U.S. Environmental History” course for graduate candidates in U.S. History
• “American Technology & Society” history course for pre-graduate elite minority students

University of Montana, Missoula MT (1998-1999)

• “Ethics & Public Affairs”, graduate level, face-to-face and web-based
• “Professional Ethics”, upper-division, web-based

Cornell University, Ithaca NY (1985-1990; Summer Guest Faculty 1991, 1992)

• History of Women in Science (Freshman Writing Seminar)
• History of 19th Century Chemistry (Freshman Writing Seminar)
• Technology & Society (lower division)
• Politics of Technical Decisions (upper division/graduate level)
• GTA appointments: History of Warfare in the Ancient World; Freshman Chemistry I & II

 

Refereed/Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Co-author with Shihua Chen Brazill and Travis Thurston, “Leadership in Instructional Design” in The Sage Handbook of Higher Education Instructional Design, edited by Safary Wa-Mbaleka et al (Sage Press).
2. “Needham’s Girls: a historical case study of gender and mentoring in entomology”, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Articles. 2.
   https://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/interdisc_arts_sciences_articles/2 .
3. George C. Caldwell (1834-1907): American Agricultural Chemist”, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Articles. 1.
   https://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/interdisc_arts_sciences_articles/1 .
4. “As Good As Gold”, pp. 31-42 in Larry Kapustka and Chad Okrusch, editors Wisdom River: Meditations on Fly Fishing and Life Midstream (Durville Publication).
5. Co-author with Shihua Chen Brazill, “Coming Home to China: Margaret Woo’s Story”, Journal of Modern Chinese History 15: 1-25.
6. Co-author with Shihua Chen Brazill, “Brave New World: Transformational Teaching for a Web-based Multicultural Education Course in the Age of COVID-19” in Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education: Virtual Settings, edited by Laura Parsons and Casey Ozaki (Palgrave Macmillan).
7. “This too is China: Hui Muslim culture and the Fulbright experience at Ningxia University", pp. 44-56 in Shin Freedman, Jeanette Cockcroft, and Pat Munday, editors, Narrative Inquiries from Fulbright Educators in China: Cross-Cultural Connections in Higher Education (Routledge).
8. Co-author, “Introduction”, pp. 1-8 in Narrative Inquiries from Fulbright Educators in China: Cross-Cultural Connections in Higher Education (Routledge).
9. “Mining Cultures and Mary Cults: Where the Sacred and the Profane Meet.” Technology & Culture 57: 1-23.
10. Co-authors Chen Shihua Brazill and Michael Masters, “Analysis of human versus machine translation accuracy,” TRANSLATOLOGIA, 1: 20 pp.
11. “The American Frontier Myth,” Humanities International Journal (Xiamen University).
12. “Thinking through Ravens: Human Hunters, Wolf-birds, and Embodied Communication,” in Emily Plec, editor, Perspectives on Human- Animal Communication: Internatural Communication (Routledge Communication Series): 207-225.
13. “The Na’vi as Spiritual Hunters: a semiotic exploration,” in Bron Taylor, editor, Opening Pandora’s Film (WLU University Press): 161-180. Also selected for publication in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
14. "Environmental Protection Agency," entry in Green Culture: An A-to-Z Guide (Sage Publications): 157-158.
15. “The Role of Environmental Communication in Shaping Remedy at America’s Largest Superfund Site,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Communication and the Environment (August 2009).
16. Entry for “Science, History of,” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner’s Sons): Volume 5, pp. 2182–2188.
17. “’A millionaire couldn’t buy a piece of water as good:’ George Grant & the Conservation of the Big Hole Watershed,” Montana Magazine of Western History 52: 20-37.
18. Biographical entry for C.H. Clapp (1883-1935), geologist and Montana School of Mines President, in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (Oxford University Press): v. 4, pp. 900-1.
19. Biographical entry for W.F. Hillebrand (1853-1925), geochemist and US Bureau of Standards administrator, in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (Oxford University Press): v. 10, pp. 808-9.
20. Biographical entry for E.N. Horsford (1818-1893), chemist and industrial entrepreneur, in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (Oxford University Press): v. 11, pp. 227-8.
21. "Politics by Other Means: Justus von Liebig and the German translation of John Stuart Mill's Logic," British Journal for the History of Science 31: 403-18.
22. "The Liebig Research School: historiographic artifact and anachronism," in Biology Integrating Scientific Fundamentals, Brigitte Hoppe, ed. (Munich): 398- 414.
23. Two essays in the literary daybook, Surviving the Western State of Mind (Hamilton, MT: Up the Creek Publishing, 1997).
24. “The View from Butte, Montana: A Response to “Red’s Java House,” CTHEORY: Theory.
25. "A New View of Liebig," Mitteilungen 11: 3 - 15. A publication of the German Chemical Society.
26. "Ethics & Air Toxics," chapter in a workbook on Understanding Air Toxics for Undergraduate Instructors, edited by Lou Theodore (Manhatten College).
27. "Social Climbing through Chemistry: Justus Liebig's rise from the niederer Mittelstand to the Bildungsbürgertum," (1990) reprinted in Die Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie, 1. Ergäzungsband, Wilhelm Lewicki, Ed. (AgriMedia, 1995): 254-273.
28. Biographical entry for A.A. Breneman (1847-1928), sanitation chemist, in Volume 2 of American Chemists, Wyndham D. Miles (ed.) (Guilford, Conn.: Gould Books): 30-31.
29. Biographical entry for L.M. Dennis (1863-1936), analytical chemist, in Volume 2 of American Chemists, Wyndham D. Miles (ed.) (Guilford, Conn.: Gould Books): 60-61.
30. Biographical entry for C.W. Mason (1898-1983), physical metallurgist, in Volume 2 of American Chemists, Wyndham D. Miles (ed.) (Guilford, Conn.: Gould Books): 180.
31. "Liebig's Metamorphosis: from organic chemistry to plant physiology," Ambix 38 (1991): 135-54.
32. "Social Climbing through Chemistry: Justus Liebig's rise from the niederer Mittelstand to the Bildungsbürgertum," Ambix 37 (1990): 1-19. Reprinted in Die Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie, 1. Ergäzungsband, Wilhelm Lewicki, Ed. (AgriMedia, 1995): 254-273.

 

Non-Refereed Publications and Creative Works

1. Photo, “Traditional Bow Hunter” in Montana Outdoors (Sept. – Oct. 2024): 35.
2. Photo, “Flintlock Rifle Hunter” in Montana Outdoors (Sept. – Oct. 2024): 38.
3. May-June 2019. Research and design of text, photos, and poster for the 1882 Exclusion Act exhibit at the Mai Wah Museum of Chinese American History and Culture in Butte, Montana.
4. May-June 2019. Research and design of text, photos, and poster for the Chinese Empire Reform Association exhibit at the Mai Wah Museum of Chinese American History and Culture in Butte, Montana.
5. 16 Sept. 2018. Tea with the Chinns: A glimpse into Chinese history and culture in Butte America. A special public event hosted by the Mai Wah Society at its museum in Butte, Montana.
6. Photo “Shore Lunch” in Montana Outdoors (May-June 2018): 37.
7. Photo “Slime Mold” (Fuligo septica), Annual Photo Issue, Montana Outdoors (Jan-Feb 2015): 34.
8. Photo “Lomatium macrocarpum - Desert parsley” in the video documentary, The Pryor Mountains - Crow Sacred Lands, by the Pryors Coalition.
9. Photo "Cryptogamic Crust" in newly revised edition of Microbiology

by Slonczewski and Foster (WW Norton, 2013).

10. May 2006 to 2014. EcoRover (http://ecorover.blogspot.com/ ), an environmental blog about Butte, Montana and the Clark Fork River and Big Hole River watersheds. More than 600 posts with 200 to 300 hits per
11. Photo of the Continental Pit/Berkeley Pit area in Mary E. Curran, “Emotional Labor: ecologies of a post-mining landscape,” Emotion, Space and Society (scholarly journal).
12. Photo of native Westslope Cutthroat Trout for the U.S. National Forest Service’s educational series, “Nursery Posters.”
13. Photo of Durant Canyon/Silver Bow Creek in Tom Dickson, "Silver Bow begins bouncing back," Montana Outdoors (Sept.-Oct. 2012): 39.
14. Photos of Butte, Montana and the Berkeley Pit in the video documentary “Andrea Stierle PhD: Discovering Value in Toxic Waste” by Lorene Shyba, one in the series, Attainment: Women and Discovery.
15. Photo of an elk bull harvested with a traditional longbow and cedar arrow, published on the “3 Rivers Archery” website and with Traditional Bowhunter magazine.
16. 1997-2012. More than 100 commentaries for Montana Public Radio about Superfund issues on behalf of the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee, an EPA-funded grassroots citizens’ group.
17. Photo of Montana brook trout for a non-profit guide about sustainable aquaculture. François-Xavier Bouillon, editor, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
18. Three photos in Flora of Montana's Gallatin Region (Gallatin Valley Land Trust): Springbeauty (Claytonia lanceolata), p. 156; Green Alder (Alnus viridis), p. 198; and Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis), p. 220.
19. "Native Trout Revival: Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Silver Bow Creek, and Superfund," Fishing in Montana edition of The Montana Steward, a newsletter published by Montana Tech’s CFWEP, pp. 7 and 12.
20. Photo of Grouse Whortleberries in Dave Carty, "Grouse of the Forest,"

Montana Outdoors (Sept.-Oct. 2011): 26.

21. Photo of Big Sagebrush in Lee Lamb, "Big sagebrush: Artemisia tridentata," Montana Outdoors (July-Aug. 2011): 41.
22. “Science, Society and Superfund: A social history of America’s largest Superfund site,” a web site created as one of the key outcomes of National Science Foundation—Science, Technology, and Society award 0646731.
23. Three photographs to illustrate Tom Dickson, “Precious Metals, Precious Trout: Can Montana continue extracting the one without harming the other?” May-June 2009: 16-23.
24. “Conservation groups come and go. Why?” High Country News (09 June 2008): 29. Also distributed by Writers on the Range, a news service of HCN.
25. Photograph, “Bitterroot Blooms,” Montana Outdoors (Jan - Feb 2008): 7.
26. Two linked prose pieces for the show, “Visions & Voices,” Venus Gallery, Butte, Montana.
27. December 2007. Director, “Too Late for Opportunity,” an image event and Augusto Boal-style play about the Arco-British Petroleum waste repository near the small town of Opportunity, Montana. Venus Rising Café, Butte,
28. July 2007. Producer, writer and director, “President Bush Grills an Endangered Species,” a short film and “image event” publicizing the plight of Big Hole River grayling (Thymallus arcticus), a fish species removed as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species
29. 2001-date. Montana Public Radio commentaries on behalf of the Clark Fork River Technical Assistance Committee, an Environmental Protection Agency funded “TAG” group.
30. Photograph, “The Payoff,” of a young hunter who completed his Montana Hunter Education course, as an illustration for Andrew McKean, “The Golden Legacy of Hunter Education,” Montana Outdoors (Sept – Oct 2007): 21.
31. “Rivers of our discontent: Montana puts limits on national Trout Unlimited.” High Country News (16 April 2007): 25. Also distributed by Writers on the Range, a news service of HCN.
32. “The Big Hole River: Chronically Dewatered?” Montana Wildlife (Dec 2006): 10.
33. 1996-2006. Numerous short articles on topical subjects for the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited newsletter Headwaters Headlines.
34. 1996-2006. Numerous short articles on topical subjects for the Big Hole River Foundation newsletter Free Flows.
35. Guest Opinion: “EPA is Serving Arco, not People,” com (09.Dec.2003).
36. Montana’s Last Best River: The Big Hole and its People (The Lyons Press,

       2001). All proceeds from this book go to the Big Hole River Foundation.

37. “Fishing the Big Hole,” Big Sky Journal (Fly Fishing Issue, 1999): 94-9.

 

Interviews as Content Expert and other Multimedia Contributions 

1. October 2022. Content expert interviewed for a set design and character development for a Chinese-American story created in the production of 1923, a Yellowstone Origin Story (Paramount+ 2023).
2. February-July 2022. Content expert on Chinese American history and culture in Butte, Montana for a film documentary by Kyle McCloskey, independent filmmaker.
3. May 2021 – August 2022. Content expert on the Rose Hum (Lee) segment in the Story of Us, a film documentary by The Extreme History Project/North By Northwest Productions of Bozeman, MT.
4. November 2018. Content expert and interviewee on “Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim,” a radio show and podcast by Jeffrey Bingham Mead. Show #144.
5. April 2018. Interview regarding the MS-Technical Communication program at Montana Tech. Published at https://www.mastersincommunication.com/school-interviews/dr-pat-munday-motana-tech .
6. April 2013. Content expert and interviewee on the Undergraduate Research Program video documentary, “Butte Water” by Cole Berg and Mariah Sheble, under the direction of Professor Nick
7. August 2012. Content expert and interviewee on the environmental consequences of large-scale mining with host Michael Pawlawski, “Familiar Waters,” an Outdoor Channel television
8. December 2010. Content expert and interviewee on community activism at the Butte Superfund site for Cate Oliver, “We’re All in This Together,” MFA film documentary, University of
9. September 2009. Featured as “Pat Munday, The Lorax” in Jonathan Stumpf’s “The Grayling Guardians” and “Can Conservation and Collaboration Save the Big Hole Grayling?,” a video and text-based documentary about the struggle to save an imperiled native fish, the fluvial Arctic grayling, in Montana’s Big Hole
10. 2009-2010. Location scout and historical advisor for Milltown, Montana, a documentary film by Rainer
11. 2007-2008. Location scout and historical advisor for Butte America, a PBS documentary film by Pamela
12. Content expert and interviewee for Ted Williams, “Who Needs Grayling? A special fish struggles to hang on in the Lower 48.” Fly Rod & Reel magazine. Pp. 18-24.

 

Books Reviewed

2021. Bradley D. Snow, Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho’s Coeur D’Alenes, 1885-2011 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). H-Net.org, H-Environment.
2022. Sarah M. Grossman, Mining the Borderlands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018). Technology and Culture 61: 351-352.
2023. Brian James Leech, The City that Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and its Expanding Berkeley Pit (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2019). Technology and Culture 60: 906-907.
2024. Mimi Sheller, Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (Cambridge: MIT Press). Environmental History 20: 319-321.
2025. Donald MacMillan, Smoke Wars: Anaconda, copper, Montana air pollution, and culture, 1890-1924 (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000). ISIS 93: 149-50.
2026. Janet Finn, Tracing the Veins: of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Technology and Culture.
2027. William H. Brock, Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper (1997). ISIS 89: 741-2.
2028. Mary Murphy, Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41. ISIS 89 (1998): 171. A version of this review appeared in the Montana Standard newspaper, 18.Oct.97.
2029. Günther Schwanicke, ed. Aus dem Leben des Chemikers Julius Lothar Meyer (Varel, 1995). Ambix 44: 41.
2030. Keith J. Laidler, The World of Physical Chemistry (1994). Physis 34: 333- 334.
2031. Kenneth Caneva, Robert Mayer and the Conservation of Energy (1993). Physis 31: 667-70.1993.

Tony Harrison, Square Rounds [verse-play] (London: Faber & Faber, 1992). Ambix 40: 102.

1993. Die Nachlässe von Martius, Liebig und den Brüdern Schlagintweit in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek. Edited by Rolf Schumacher. (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1990). Isis 84: 427-8.
1994. John W. Servos, Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America (Princeton University Press, 1990). Physis 29: 623-5.
1995. Joseph S. Fruton, Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biological Sciences (Philadelphia PA: American Philosophical Society, 1990). Physis 29: 640-3.
1996. Jeffrey A. Johnson, The Kaiser's Chemists: Science and Modernization in Imperial Germany (University of North Carolina, 1990). Physis 29: 270-3.
1997. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, eds. Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester University Press, 1987). Physis 28: 980-2.
1998. Ursula Schling-Brodersen, Entwicklung und Institutionalisierung der Agrikulturchemie im 19. Jahrhundert: Liebig und die landwirtschaftlichen Versuchsstationen (Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1989). Agricultural History 64: 337-8.
1999. Bettina Haupt, Deutschsprachige Chemielehrbücher (1775-1850) (Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1987). Isis 80: 321-2.
2000. Gerrit Jan Mulder, The letters from Gerrit Jan Mulder to Justus Liebig (1838-46), edited and annotated by H.A.M. Snelders (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986). [letters are in French; introduction and annotations are in English] Isis 78: 135.

 

Other Reviews 

1. 2012-date. Peer reviewer of papers submitted to Technology & Culture.
2. 2015-date. Peer reviewer of papers submitted to Montana: The Magazine of Western History.
3. 2007-2020. US National Science Foundation, Science & Society Program, anonymous peer reviews of proposals.
4. 2009-12. Peer reviewer of papers submitted for COCE.
5. US Department of Health & Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry, “Exposure Investigation Protocol, Walkerville, Montana, February, 2001,” Internal draft reviewed for Rubina Imtiaz, Medical Officer,
6. Winston & Edelbach, eds. Society, Ethics, and Technology (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth , 2001). Reviewed for the

 

Graduate Committees Chaired 

1. Emmy Keenan (co-chair). MS project, “Food for Good”, a documentary film about the Dish-Ability food truck and food service training program in Butte, MT.
2. Erica Jansma. MS project, “Book Self-Publishing: Best Practices”.
3. Malea Dunne. MS thesis, “Computer Generated Papers as a New Challenge to Peer Review”.
4. (co-chair). Shanara “Shanny” Spang Gion, MS thesis, “Synthesizing Traditional Knowledge and Western Science in Water Research, Policy, and Practice”
5. Julia Quigley, MS project, “A Video Guide to Navigating the Challenges of a High-Tech Business in Montana”
6. Constance Martin, MS project, A Comprehensive Marketing Plan for a Non-Profit Integrated Healthcare System
7. Chen Shihua Brazill, MS thesis, “Improving Translation Quality by Incorporating Cultural Sensitivity.”
8. Anna Nelson Shaw, MS thesis, “Knowledge, biopower, and subjectivities at the media-policy interface: A study of climate change discourses in Montana
9. Marisa Larson, MS thesis, “Iconic Multimodal Communication: A case study of Apple’s iPod Silhouette Ad Campaign.”
10. Kehli Kankelborg Hazlett, MS thesis, “Foodways of Butte, Montana.” 2011.
11. Stacie Barry, PhD dissertation, “Coming to the Surface: The Environment, Health, and Culture in Butte, Montana from 1950 to 2010.” University of Montana Interdisciplinary PhD
12. Emma MacKenzie, MS thesis, “Hunting the Big Bad Wolf: A Material- Semiotic Analysis of Community.”
13. Samantha Sheble, MS project, “Human Impacts Module: Scientific Method—an instructional design project.”
14. Stephanie Gruss, MS project, “The Technocrat: a manual for operating the student newspaper in print and electronic format.”
15. Susan Barth, MS publishable paper, “Online Peer Critique of Creative Writing Best Practices from Writers' Forums to Blackboard.”
16. Vanessa Murray, MS project. "The Creation of a Funding Structure for the Clark Fork Watershed Education Program (CFWEP)"
17. Lori Hutchinson, MS project. “Rape Kit Training Program: an interactive training website for Montana healthcare professionals.”
18. K. Alexis West, MS project, “Hunting: a photodocumentary.”
19. Holli Hoerschelman, MS project. “Access Grid Nodes and the Foreign Language Classroom.” Using a broadband conferencing technology to enhance language instruction.
20. Debbie Johnson, MS publishable paper. “Risk Communication and Chronic Wasting Disease.” A comparative study of rhetoric and risk communication by a state agency, a game farming organization, and a sportsmen’s organization.
21. Annette Kankelborg, MS project. “Rural Science Fair Competition: Leveling the Playing Field.” Instructional techniques and a database to connect rural science students with mentors and needed resources.”
22. Justin Ringsak, MS thesis, “Environmentalism, Hegemony & (re)Articulation: A Study of Select Mass Media & Environmental Discourse Across Cultures.” A comparative study of environmental discourse in the United States and South America.
23. Roberta Bell, MS project. “An Interactive Geographical Information System Designed for Needs and Resources of the Aldersgate Methodist Church.” An interactive system to help match volunteers with those needing help using both verbal descriptors and geographical location.
24. Kelly Speer, MS project, “Public Notification and Sex Offenders.” A rhetorical study of how various media influence the notification process.
25. Gloria Carter, MS project, “The Hypermedia Research Report: Access to the Future.” An informational website created to replace an expensive hardcopy publication and to explain selected college research activities.
26. Joe Schaffer, MS project, “Coalition Building through Web Design: The Missoula Forum for Children and Youth Online.” An interactive web site created to serve members of the forum, primarily organizations such as the YMCA and County Health Department that provide services to youth and families.
27. Dan Cornell, MS project, “Upper Clark Fork River Basin Multimedia Project.” Produced under contract with Montana’s Natural Resource Damage Program, this was an educational module for 2^nd-8^th grade students about remediation and restoration of a watershed damaged by a century of mining and smelting pollution. 2000.
28. Chad Okrusch, MS project, “Webed-101: a web-based course introducing college faculty to web-based teaching and learning.” An interactive instructional module to guide faculty in designing and creating web-based courses.” This project was instrumental in jump-starting web-based instruction at Montana Tech.
29. Roberta Stauffer, MS project. “The Treasure Hunters.” A multimedia production for the Berkeley PitWatch Committee, this was an educational module for grade school children about the history of and environmental problems caused by a large abandoned open-pit copper mine.

 

Selected Undergraduate Research Supervised (NSF-funded undergraduate research projects) 

1. 2012-13. Cole Berg and Mariah Sheble, “Butte Water,” began as a project in my class, I helped Cole and Mariah write their proposal and then asked my colleague, Nick Hawthorne, Professor of Multimedia, to guide revision and completion as film producer. This project was one of more than 4,000 entries selected to present at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (University of Kentucky, April 2014), and the recipient of a national award.
2. 2011-12. Kayla Lester and Aaron Briggs, “Investigating Communication Tools for Sustainability at Montana Tech” (completed under another advisor when I departed for China).
3. 2011-12. Jonathan Kershaw, “Investigating the Granite Mountain Mine Disaster and its Effect on Labor Practices: a short film.” (completed under another advisor when I departed for China).
4. 2006-07. Matthew Michels, “Communication & Change: The effectiveness of peer communication in changing student choices regarding ”
5. 2006-07. Michelle Sullivan, “Environmental Rhetoric: The Meaning of Reclamation, Remediation, and ”
6. 2004-05. Jacqueline Colomb, “Standardization of Firefighting: Examining the Issues Between Private and Public ”
7. 2004-05. Adam Munson, “The Production of Effective Educational Communication Strategies for the 4th-6th ”
8. 2004-05. Tiffany Nitschke, “A Historical Study of How Traditional Copyright Laws Were Interpreted to Cope with New ”
9. 2002-03. Jamie McCollom, “Science Success: Promoting Science Fair participation and enthusiasm in local ”
10. 2002-03. Mariya Cronnelly: “Politics of Unpatented Mining Claims.”

 

Grants and Proposals (Funded, unless othwerwise noted)

1. October 2022. “Preserving and Interpreting Chinese History: operational support for Butte’s Mai Wah Museum”, a proposal to the Montana Arts Council. $6,749.
2. October 2021. Preserving and Interpreting Chinese History: operational support for Butte’s Mai Wah Museum”, a proposal to the Montana Arts Council. $5,000.
3. October 2020. “Mai Wah Chinese History Museum: a request for operational support” a proposal to the Montana Arts Council. $4,000.
4. June 2020. “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Grant”, a proposal to Humanities Montana. $5,000.
5. October 2019. “Mai Wah Building Vaulted Sidewalk Repair Project”, a proposal to the Butte-Silver Bow Urban Revitalization Agency. $35,500. Funded at 90%.
6. July 2019. “Mai Wah Chinese History Museum: a request for operational support”, a proposal to the Montana Cultural Trust on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $4,500.
7. November 2018. Competitive Stage II award, “Butte's Wah Chong Tai Mercantile: restoring Chinese American history for the 21st century”, Partners in Preservation, Main Street, National Trust for Historic Preservation, on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $131,996.
8. July 2018. “Butte's Wah Chong Tai Mercantile: restoring Chinese American history for the 21st century”, Stage I proposal to Partners in Preservation, Main Street, National Trust for Historic Preservation, on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $20,000.
9. July 2018. “Mai Wah Chinese History Museum: a request for operational support”, a proposal to the Montana Cultural Trust, on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $4,500.  
10. July 2017. “Mai Wah Chinese History Museum: a request for operational support”, a proposal to the Montana Cultural Trust on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $4,500.
11. May 2017. Federal travel grant for invited lectures at Taiyuan University in China. 578 RMB.
12. April 2017. Federal travel grant for invited lectures at China University of Mining & Technology in Beijing. 1,769 RMB.
13. April 2017. Federal travel grant for invited lectures at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China. 1,450 RMB.
14. March 2017. “Restoring Butte’s Chinese History: Storefront Rehabilitation Project”, a proposal to the Butte Redevelopment Trust Fund, co-authored with Mary McCormick, Historic Preservation Officer, on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $24,000.
15. July 2016. “Mai Wah Museum operational support”, co-authored with Richard Gibson, a proposal to the Montana Cultural Trust on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $5,000.
16. March 2016. “Restoring Butte’s Chinese History: An Engineering & Architectural Assessment of the Mai Wah/Wah Chong Tai Building,” a proposal to the Butte Redevelopment Trust Fund,” co-authored with Mary McCormick, Historic Preservation Officer, on behalf of the Mai Wah Society. $22,924. Funded at 80%.
17. May 2012. Federal travel grant for invited guest lectures at Xiamen University. Award Number S-CH500-12-GR078. $454.
18. April 2012. Federal travel grant for invited guest lectures at South China Normal University and the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou. Award Number S-CH500-12- CR070. $1047.
19. Submitted August 2006. “Science, Society, and Superfund: A Social History of America’s Largest Superfund Site,” a proposal to the Science & Society Scholar Program of the National Science Foundation. Original request of $183,517 reduced due to federal budget shortfall per NSF program officer request to $141,762. Dec 2007 – Nov 2009.
20. Submitted March 2005. “German Gulch Watershed Restoration Project,” a proposal submitted to Montana’s Natural Resource Damage Program on behalf of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Written jointly with Josh Vincent, PE, of Water & Environmental Technologies. Request: $912,519, plus $180,736 raised in matching funds (match itemized below). Match included:
    • proposal to Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks’ Future Fisheries program, $15,000.
    • proposal to US Fish & Wildlife Service’s Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Program, $54,841; and
    • proposal to Montana’s Fish & Wildlife Trust program for $41,000.
21. Submitted May 2004. “German Gulch Restoration,” a proposal development grant submitted to Montana’s Natural Resource Damage Program on behalf of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Request: $25,000, plus $11,861 raised in matching funds.
22. Submitted November 2002. “Restoring German Gulch,” a proposal development grant submitted to Montana’s Natural Resource Damage Program on behalf of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Request: $24,600, plus $19,300 raised in matching funds.
23. Submitted 1998. “Land Use Planning,” a capacity building grant application submitted the Resources for Community Collaboration/William & Flora Hewlett Foundation on behalf of the Big Hole River Foundation. Request $5,000.
24. Submitted January 2006. “Working Waters,” a proposal submitted jointly with the Anaconda School District to the Teaching American History Program of the Department of Education Request: $499,996. Status: not funded.
25. Submitted May 2006. “Montana Science Partnership: Teacher Institutes for the 21st Century,” a proposal submitted jointly with the Anaconda School District to the National Science Foundation. Request: $4,999,995. Status: not funded.
26. Submitted December 2005. “Clark Fork Revival: A Social History of America’s Largest Superfund Site,” a proposal to the Science & Society Scholar Program of the National Science Foundation. Request: $140,786. Review: “should fund.” Status: not funded for budgetary reasons. Invited to reapply.
27. Submitted May 2005. “Working Waters: A History of Work in the Upper Columbia River Basin,” a proposal submitted jointly with the Anaconda School District to the Teaching American History Program of the Department of Education. Request: Status: not funded.
28. Submitted January 2005. “Montana Science Education Partnership,” a proposal submitted jointly with the Anaconda School District to the Teacher Quality Research Program of the Department of Education Request: $1,468,405. Status: not funded.
29. Submitted December 2003. “Montana Math & Science Education Partnership,” a proposal submitted jointly with the Anaconda School District to the National Science Foundation. Request: $11,661,398. Review: recommended for funding. Status: not funded; Bush Administration eliminated this program.
30. Submitted December 2002. “Montana Math-Science Cultural Partnership,” a proposal submitted jointly with the Anaconda School District to the National Science Foundation. Request: $9,032,781. Status: not funded.

 

Honor & Awards 

• Lifetime Distinguished Researcher Award. Montana Tech.
• Fall 2023. Sabbatical award to revise and submit for publication two manuscripts.
• Montana Tech faculty Merit Award.
• Invited visiting professor with Southwest University in Chongqing, China, with the Global Immersion Program.
• Fulbright Scholar Award in the People’s Republic of China. Taught two undergraduate courses at Ningxia University in Yinchuan, delivered guest lectures at several other Chinese universities and the U.S. Embassy in China.
• Invited visiting exchange faculty. Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou China.
• 2014-15. Sabbatical award to research and write five
• Recommended as the top candidate for Merit Award by the Montana Tech Faculty Merit Review Committee.
• Fulbright Scholar Award in the People’s Republic of China. Taught two graduate courses at Southwest University in Chongqing, delivered guest lectures at several other Chinese universities and a U.S. Consulate in China.
• 2001-2015. Montana Tech Library, Author’s
• 2006-07 Academic Year. Sabbatical award to research citizen involvement in shaping Environmental Protection Agency decisions for remedy in Upper Clark Fork River Superfund
• 1998-1999 Academic Year. Sabbatical award to research the history of people and place in Montana’s Big Hole River
• "Liebig-Wöhler-Freundschafts Preis," a prize to recognize original scholarship in the history of German chemistry. Awarded at the meeting of the Göttingener Chemische Gesellschaft.
• 1987-88. Fulbright Student Scholar Award in the Federal Republic of Germany, with Prof. Dr. Andreas Kleinert at the Universität Hamburg, Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und

 

Campus Service 

1. 1998-date. Fulbright Program Advisor for Montana Tech.
2. 2022-23 AY; 2024-25 AY. Collegiate Evaluation Committee for promotion & tenure decisions.
3. 2020-24. Guest lecture, “Globalization and Design”, Senior Engineering Projects class.
4. 2023-24. Guest lecture, “Rhetoric and the effective communication of climate change”, Environmental Health OSH 491/IH 597.
5. Guest lecture, “Arctic Grayling in the Upper Big Hole River Valley”, Montana Tech Fly-fishing Club.
6. 2019-22. Co-presenter with Shanny Spang-Gion, “Indigenous Mentoring Practices”, Montana Tech Mentoring Workshops and the HOPES (NSF funded) program.
7. 1997-2018. Graduate field representative for potential graduate candidates interested in Technical
8. 2010-date. Graduate School Advisory Committee.
9. Led successful effort resulting in a signed faculty and student exchange agreement between Guangdong College of Business & Technology and Montana Tech.
10. Facilitated visits with groups of faculty/administrators from three Chinese universities looking to establish exchange relationships with Montana Tech.
11. 1999-2015. Facilitated numerous Small Group Instructional Diagnoses for faculty in various departments across
12. 2012-14. Department Head, Technical Communication Program.
13. 2002-14. Chaired numerous department search committees.
14. 2011-12. Chair, Faculty Merit Award Committee.
15. 2006-12. Grievance Officer/Steward of the Faculty Union (Montana Tech Faculty Association, or MTFA).
16. 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013. Lead negotiator in bargaining new faculty contracts for the Faculty Union. Achievements included:
    1. instituting the Merit Plan;
    2. significant “compression raises” (6% to 20%) for senior faculty;
    3. a summer salary plan based on the NSF model;
    4. reducing time for sabbatical from 7 to 6 years;
    5. developing a process for Department Performance Standards; and
    6. reforming the Grievance Procedure.
17. 2006-12. Grievance Officer/Steward of the Faculty Union (Montana Tech Faculty Association, or MTFA).
18. 2008-2010. Faculty Seed Grant Proposal Review Committee.
19. 2008-2009. Chair, Faculty Merit Plan Committee. I wrote the White Paper and the final draft for the Merit Plan.
20. 2006-2008. Elected President of the Faculty Union.
21. 2007-2008. Elected President of the Faculty Union.
22. 2004-2006. Elected Vice-President of the Faculty Union. Played lead role in drafting the union’s first Collective Bargaining Agreement.
23. 1992-98. Chair, Curriculum Review Committee. In addition to routine functions, this committee took lead in developing new curricula and outcomes assessment.
24. 1990-2011. Numerous guest presentations about professional ethics to Environmental Engineering, General Engineering, Computer Science, Health Sciences, and other classes.
25. 2002-04. Collegiate Evaluation Committee for promotion & tenure decisions.
26. 1998-2010. Montana Tech Science & Engineering Advisory Board. Particularly active in supporting the regional science fair, including presentations to judges and teachers, and acting as head
27. 1992-2010. Cooperative Education and Placement Advisory Committee.
28. 1999-2011. Curriculum Review Committee member.
29. 1999-2002. General Education Requirements Review Committee member.
30. 1999-2001. "Committee III" member, review and revision of electives and core credits in all MT Tech undergraduate programs.
31. 1996-99. Member of an ABET 2000 sub-committee for satisfying new ABET criteria in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
32. 1991-98. Advisor to STAS, the Society & Technology Association for Students.
33. 1996-98. Member of a Society & Technology ad hoc faculty committee that established the new graduate and undergraduate programs, MS – Technical Communication and BS – Professional & Technical Communication.
34. 1995-96. Chair, Research Seed Grant Proposal Review Committee. Reviewed proposals from new faculty and made awards to stimulate research and scholarly activity.
35. 1995-96. Member of an ad hoc committee to study the feasibility of developing an MS in Technical
36. 1994-95. Member of Project 2000, an ad hoc committee to develop a campus plan for restructuring the university in order to "enhance teaching & "
37. 1994-95. Faculty Senate. In addition to routine functions, the senate revised the Faculty & Staff Handbook, including a major revision of tenure and promotion policies

 

Community Service 

1. 2012-date. Executive board member, Mai Wah Society, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization established for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes, including research and public education about the history, culture, and conditions of Asian people in the Rocky Mountain West. Elected president 2015-16; 2017-18; 2019-20. Newsletter editor and grant writing, 2012-date.
2. 2023. Public lecture, “Our Lady of the Rockies”, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Butte-Silver Bow Archives.
3. 2023. 2023. Public lecture, “Arctic Grayling in the Upper Big Hole River Valley”, George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
4. 2023. Public lecture, “Dances with Ravens: Wolf Birds and Humans”, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Butte-Silver Bow Archives.
5. 2022. Keynote lecture, “History of the Chinese in Butte”, Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers, annual conference.
6. May 2022. Public lecture, “In the Mood for Love: Margaret Woo and the Chinese Woman’s ‘Power Dress’ of the 1930s”, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Butte-Silver Bow Archives.
7. 2022. Public lecture, “Coming Home to China: Margaret Woo’s Story”, Brown Bag Lunch Series, Butte-Silver Bow Archives.
8. 2019-22. Guest lecture, “Chinese American Culture and History in Montana,” Multi-cultural Education course at Montana State University.
9. 2018. Public lecture, “The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Chinese in Butte, Montana.” Mai Wah Museum, Butte MT.
10. May 2018: Bureau of Reclamation lecture series broadcast from Billings, MT: “The Chinese in Montana”.
11. 2015. Public lecture, “Chinese New Year and Spring Festival,” Butte-Silver Bow Library.
12. 2015. Public lecture, “The Qipao and Chinese Culture,” Mai Wah Museum, Butte MT.
13. Met with faculty/administrative representatives from China Scholarship Council regarding educational reform in China.
14. Delivered a series of three public lectures about contemporary Chinese culture, hosted by Montana Tech.
15. 1997-2012. Member of CFRTAC, an EPA Technical Advisory Committee for the Clark Fork River Superfund process. Radio commentator representing CFRTAC on Montana Public
16. 2008-12. Member CTEC, an EPA Technical Advisory Committee for the Butte area Superfund
17. 2002-11. Head Judge, Southwest Montana Regional Science Fair, Montana Tech, Butte,
18. April 2008. “The Big Hole River & Native Grayling,” a presentation to the Bitterroot River Chapter of Trout
19. 2002-05. Co-grant writer and co-project director of three Trout Unlimited projects for environmental restoration in German Gulch, a watershed heavily damaged by historic placer mining. Total funding secured $1.27 million.
20. 1996-2005. Member of the Executive Council of the George Grant Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Chapter representative for native species, including participation as member of the Governor’s West Slope Cutthroat Trout working group. Elected chapter president for 2002-03.
21. June.2004. “The Administration’s Amendment of the Roadless Rule is a Bad Idea,” a guest editorial for the Montana Standard newspaper, Butte, Montana.
22. May 2003. As head judge representing the Southwest Montana Regional Science Fair, accompanied five students to Intel's International Science Fair in Cleveland, Ohio. Four top award winning high school students from the SW Montana fair competed in the Intel Fair, receiving numerous awards including one first place. The other student attended as an observer, an award given to the best 8th grade project at the SW Montana fair.
23. 2001-12. Numerous presentations to school and community groups about Superfund remediation and restoration in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin of Montana.
24. 1996-2005. Member of the Executive Council of the Big Hole River Foundation; chair of communication committee; newsletter advisor. Represented foundation in Big Hole Watershed Committee on issues such as land use planning and drought management. Represented foundation in Big Hole River Conflict Resolution Committee, a state-appointed committee to resolve recreational conflicts through deliberative dialogue and policy suggestions to the
25. Nov.2002. Public lecture, “Iraq: Where’s the Threat?” a lecture about the improbability of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction, at a teach-in on the eve of America’s initiation of war against Iraq. Butte, Montana.
26. On behalf of BHRF, wrote a successful grant application to Resources for Community Collaboration/William & Flora Hewlett Foundation to inaugurate land use planning. Helped see this project through to fruition in 2005, when all four counties governing land along the river joined in a common land use plan.
27. 1998-2002. Governor Racicot’s appointee to and charter member of the Upper Clark Fork Basin Remediation and Restoration Education Advisory Council. Chair of the Education Subcommittee. The Council advises the Governor and takes a leadership role in encouraging public involvement, promoting educational activities, and developing policy involving the State of Montana’s $215 million settlement for damages to natural resources caused by a century of mining and smelting activities.
28. 1991-98. Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 15, Butte MT. Chaired the outdoor program, which included a monthly (year-round) campout and various activities such as cross-country skiing, backpacking, and canoeing.

 

Professional Development 

Invited Speaker 

1. 20 March 2021. Speaker, “Margaret Woo (1912-82), the story of a transnational Chinese American woman”, US State Department, Beijing, China, speaker series.
2. 23 January 2021. Speaker, “Chinese Americans, Racism, and Montana: From the 1882 Exclusion Act to the 2020 ‘China Flu’”, Montana Human Rights Network speaker series.
3. 10 May 2018. Speaker, “Chinese History in Butte, Montana.” Bureau of Reclamation colloquium series, Billings MT.
4. 12 June 2017. Lecturer, Jilin University in Changchun, China. “Our Rivers are Burning! How the U.S. Passed the Clean Water Act, a Case Study in American Politics”; and "In the Mood for Love (花樣年華)”: The Cheongsam/Qipao as the Chinese Woman’s “Power Dress” of the 1930s".
5. 26 May 2017. Lecturer, Taiyuan University of Technology, China. “Red Wedding Dresses and White Rice: The Semiotics and Cultural Differences between the U.S. and China”; and “Red Wedding Dresses and White Rice: the Semiotics and Cultural Differences between the U.S. and China".
6. 12 May 2017. Lecturer, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou China. “Red Wedding Dresses and White Rice: the Semiotics and Cultural Differences between the U.S. and China”; and “Our Rivers are Burning! How the U.S. Passed the Clean Water Act, a Case Study in American Politics”.
7. 06 April 2017. Lecturer, Chinese University of Mining & Technology in Beijing. “Red Wedding Dresses and White Rice: The Semiotics and Cultural Differences between the U.S. and China"; and "Japan’s Unconditional Surrender: Why America Dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"  
8. 05 April 2017. Speaker, “President Trump’s First 100 Days”, U.S. Embassy, Beijing China.
9. 21 Feb 2014. Speaker, “Citizen Participation in Superfund: Lessons from America’s Largest Superfund Site.” Tulane Environmental Law Summit, hosted by the Environmental Law Program at Tulane University in New
10. 14 July 2013. Facilitator and commenter, “Clark Fork River Restoration,” a panel discussion at the Montana Folk Festival in
11. 14 July 2013. Speaker, “Stream Access,” a panel discussion at the Montana Folk Festival in
12. 21 June 2012. “At the Movies: the environment as depicted in popular American films.” Invited guest lecture. Sichuan University,
13. 20 June 2012. “America Outdoors: the conflict between environmental protection and economic development.” Invited guest lecture. U.S. Consulate,
14. 10 May 2012. "The Environmental Protest Movement in 20th Century America." Invited guest lecture. Xiamen
15. 09 May 2012. "The Frontier in American History." Invited guest lecture. Xiamen University.
16. 21 April 2012. Led NGO roundtable discussion as host speaker with: Zhang Lifan (Green Point Youth Environmental Education Center); Li Fenglian (Wildlife Conservation Society); Liu Lican (International Center for Communications Development); Li Yuting (Qichuang Social Work Service Center); and Aki Liao (Inno Community Development Organization). Organized by the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou.
17. 20 April 2012. “The U.S. Water Pollution Crisis and the Clean Water Act.” Invited Earth Day/Week guest lecture. U.S. Consulate,
18. May 2010. “Montana Mining History: The Environment and Human Health.” Symposium on Environmental and Health Consequences of Gold Mining. Bozeman, Montana. Symposium sponsored by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
19. October 2009. Panel participant, Public Participation: What’s Working, What Could Be Improved at the National Summit of Mining Communities in Butte,
20. May.2007. Keynote speech, “Watershed Groups: past, present, and future?,” Annual Awards Meeting of the Montana Watersheds Coordination Council. Helena, Montana.
21. 2006. “Bound for Glory,” a symposium on the history of Anaconda and the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, at a celebration for the inaugural run of the Rarus Railroad tour train. Anaconda, Montana.
22. March.2003. “Intellectual Property & Patents: A Brief History.” Montana State Bar convention, Butte, Montana.
23. Sept.2002. “From Love Stems Obligation: Saving Montana’s Last Best River.” Ravalli County Museum, Hamilton, Montana.
24. Oct.1997. “Justus von Liebig: from Vitalism to Modern Biotechnology.” Biotechnology Seminar, Montana State University, Bozeman.
25. Nov.1996. “Mining Culture & Mary Cults,” an invited paper at the Montana History Conference, “Only In Butte,” in Butte, Montana.
26. Oct.1994. Speaker, Festschrift celebration for Prof. Dr. L. Pearce Williams; held at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society in New Orleans, Louisiana.
27. Oct.1994. Chaired a session, "Copper Mining & the Environment," at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in Lowell, Massachusetts.
28. Feb.1994. Colloquium on Engineering Ethics & the Environment, at the Engineering School's Professional Day at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
29. 25-28.July.1992. Chaired a session, "The Chemical Laboratory as a Site of Scientific Progress," organized by Dr J.H.S. Green (University College London), at the History of Science Society meeting in Toronto, Canada.
30. April.1991. Invited speaker. Presented a paper on George C. Caldwell (1828- 1907) for the American Chemical Society cachet series on past presidents at the 1991 ACS Atlanta meeting.

 

Contributor 

1. 2024. With Shihua Chen Brazill, “Chinese American Markers of Modernity: Cheongsam Dresses, Liu Mansions, and Lingnan University” at Conference “Representations of East Asian Migrants and Settlers in the Western United States”, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT.
2. June 2024, “ “, at Conference “Rural Chinatowns and Hidden Sites”, 1882 Project, Salt Lake City, UT.
3. 2021. “Racism and the History of Chinese in Montana” at Virtual Conference sponsored by the Montana Human Rights Network.
4. May 2019. Invited participant representing the Mai Wah Society at the 1882 Symposium VII for public history regarding the Chinese in America, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
5. March 2010. “The Dam Must Go: Community Activism in Superfund Remedy at Missoula, Montana” at the American Society for Environmental History annual conference in Portland,
6. October 2009. Organized the session Technology & Culture in Postindustrial Landscapes, at the Society for the History of Technology 2009 annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My paper was “Historic Preservation, Environmental Cleanup, and the Restoration Economy at America’s Largest Superfund ”
7. 23-27.April.2008. Participant in the NSF-funded New England Workshop on Science & Social Change: “Science-in-Society: Teaching and Engaging across Boundaries,” Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,
8. October.2007. “STS and Environmental History as a Foundation for Environmental Activism” for the roundtable discussion “Common Ground? Perspectives on integration of STS and environmental history thus far.” Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Washington, DC.
9. 19-24.April.2006. Participant in the NSF-funded New England Workshop on Science & Social Change: “Ecological restoration as social reconstruction,” Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,
10. April.2005. “Restoration of German Gulch Creek & a Vision for Fisheries Restoration in Silver Bow Creek.” Clark Fork Symposium 2005. University of Montana-Missoula.
11. 02-03.Oct.2003. Poster “Politics of Uncertainty: Remediation & Restoration in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin.” Reclaiming the Headwaters of the Clark Fork, Annual Montana Water Conference, Butte,
12. Sept.2003. Poster “Politics of Uncertainty: Remediation & Restoration in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin.” Assessing and Re-naturalizing Streams Impacted by Mining, Center for Riverine Science Conference, University of Montana-Missoula.
13. Feb.2001. Presented a paper, “Culture, Place, Politics: taking nature seriously through consensus” in the Environmental Ethics session at the conference “Taking Nature Seriously: citizens, science, and environment,” University of Oregon, Eugene.
14. Oct.1997. Presented a paper, “Mary Culture & Mining Cults” in the session “Reason & Faith in Mining” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in Pasadena, California.
15. April.1995. Presented a paper, "To Be of Use," at the Biodiversity II Symposium of the Montana Academy of Sciences.
16. 24 Feb. 1994. Poster session, "Environmental Ethics & Extractive Engineering," at the Association for Practical & Professional Ethics Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.
17. Jan.1994. Presented a paper, "Mining Culture & Mary Cults," at the National Association for Science, Technology and Society Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia.

 

Organizer 

1. August 2005. Co-chair. Plan, coordinate and facilitate sessions at the Arctic Grayling Symposium: Arctic Grayling Recovery--Working Together for a New Future, in Wisdom, Montana. Hosted by the Big Hole River Foundation to address endangered species status of Arctic grayling in the Big Hole River. Scientific forums included fisheries biologists from British Columbia, Alberta, Alaska, and Montana. A series of public forums addressed issues of importance to ranchers, anglers, and the general conservation community.
2. July 2000-May 2001. Director of a grant for developing an inter-campus UMM- MT Tech web-based (Blackboard) professional ethics course. Course created with Deni Elliott (UMM) and Paul Lester (University of California-Fullerton). Dr. Elliott was director of the Practical Ethics
3. 26-27.Aug.1997. Organized and facilitated a two day workshop, “Do the Right Thing!,” for Mt Tech faculty about teaching professional ethics to undergraduates. Funded with a Faculty Development Mini-Grant.
4. April.1994. Organized a Montana Academy of Sciences Symposium, "Ethics & the Sciences." Included a panel discussion on wildlife management, "The Research — Policy Gap: Science & Ethics in the Federal Agency," and a presentation by Dr. Deni Elliott, Mansfield Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs at the University of Montana.
5. 1990. Organizer, with Dr. Frederic L. Holmes as Chair, of a session titled "Science, Politics & Praxis: Justus Liebig and Agricultural Chemistry" at the annual History of Science Society meeting in Seattle WA. My own contribution to the session was a paper titled "Liebig's Metamorphosis: from organic chemistry to plant physiology".
     

Miscellaneous Projects 

• June 2003. Faculty Development Grant to purchase DVDs to support teaching of STS 2016 “Technology & Society” and STS 3596 “Politics of Technical Decisions.”
• 1996-97. “Headwaters Montana,” $2,827 Campus Compact Grant. Communication students were paired with environmental groups to assist with communication tasks regarding the Big Hole and Clark Fork
• July 1996. Participant in a national conference, “Ethics in Practice and the Professions,” at the University of Montana in
• 1995. Received a Faculty Development Mini-grant for a videotape collection to support teaching STS 201, Technology & Society, as a film course.
• 1991. Received a Faculty Development Mini-grant to utilize the software package SimEarth as a teaching tool. SimEarth is based on the Gaia hypothesis by James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, et al.
• June 1979 – June 1980. Engineered, supervised and assisted in the return to production of an oil lease with three wells. The lease was outfitted with authentic 19th century technology. Project for the MS degree from

 

Professional Affiliations 

Member, American Society for Environmental History Member, Conference on Communication & Environment Member, Society for the History of Technology

Member, Semiotics Society of America