Graduate Students
Michal Meyer
Ph.D. Candidate in History of Science
M.A. in History, University of Florida, 2005
B.A. in Physics, Victoria University of Wellington, 1990
Phone: 352-392-1677
E-mail: michalme@ufl.edu
Field: History of Science
Minor Field: European History
Research Interests
How science is communicated to the public and also the creation of a public
culture of science. I work on nineteenth-century Britain (but would eventually
like to include the twentieth century and the U.S.), studying people who
wrote about science for an audience of non-scientists. Specifically, I study
Mary Somerville, who was active from 1831 to 1868, and her creation of a
public culture of science and how this tied into concepts of empire, religion,
and gender.
Disseration title: "Speaking for Nature: Mary Somerville and the Science of Empire"
Advisor: Dr. Fred Gregory
Grants and Awards
O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship, 2006
First place in 2006 British Society for the History of Science essay competition
on “Why
is the History of Science Important?"
Conference Presentations
2007 joint University
of Florida – Florida
State University graduate student history of science conference
Courses Taught
History of Science from the Renaissance to the Present (HIS 3464) – taught
Summer B 2007
Miscellaneous Notes
My assistantship is with the History of Science Society where I produce the
quarterly Newsletter of
the society.