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| Dane Thor Daniel Assistant Professor of History Wright State University - Lake Campus _______________________________________________________________________________________ Office: 7600 State Route 703 • Celina, OH • 45822 Tel. 419 586-0390 • Fax 419 586-0368 dane.daniel@wright.edu • danethor@yahoo.com • www.danethor.com |
EDUCATION
• Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science (with a History minor), Indiana University – Bloomington,
September 2003.
• Area Certificate in Medieval Studies, Indiana University- Bloomington, May, 2000.
• M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University – Bloomington, November 1999.
• M.A. in History, University of North Texas, August 1995. Thesis: “The Empyrean: The Pinnacle of the
Medieval World View (Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries)” (Advisor: Roy DeCarvalho)
• B.M. in Jazz Studies (with a music theory minor, performance emphasis, and piano
concentration), University of North Texas, May 1993.
DISSERTATION
• Title: “Paracelsus’ Astronomia Magna (1537/38): Bible-Based Science and the
Religious Roots of the Scientific Revolution”
• Dissertation Chair: William R. Newman, Ph.D., Dept. of Hist. and Phil. of Sci., Indiana U.
• Minor Representative: Jonathan Sheehan, Ph.D., Department of History, Indiana University
• Other committee members: Ann Carmichael, M.D./Ph.D., Dept. of Hist.; Dept. of Hist. and Phil. of
Science, Indiana University
Urs Leo Gantenbein, M.D., Institute and Museum for the History of
Medicine, University of Zurich; President of the Swiss Paracelsus
Society; Director of the Paracelsus Project
Jole Shackelford, Ph.D., Program in the History of Medicine,
University of Minnesota
POSTDOCTORAL EMPLOYMENT
2005-present: Assistant Professor of History (tenure-track), Wright State University – Lake Campus
2005: Neville Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.
2002-2004: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT
2003-2004: Senior Adjunct Lecturer, Suffolk University – Boston, Program of Integrated Studies
PRINTED SCHOLARSHIP
Articles in Books
Daniel, Dane T. “Coping with Heresy: Suchten, Toxites, and the Early Reception of Paracelsus's
Theology.” In Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern
Chemistry, edited by Lawrence M. Principe, 53-62. Sagamore Beach: Chemical Heritage
Foundation and Science History Publications/USA, a division of Watson Publishing
International LLC, 2007.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus on Baptism and the Acquiring of the Eternal Body.” In Paracelsian
Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe, ed. Gerhild Scholz
Williams and Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., 116-134. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal
Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Articles in Journals
Daniel, Dane T. “Invisible Wombs: Rethinking Paracelsus’s Concept of Body and Matter.” Ambix
(2006): 129-142.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus on the Lord’s Supper: Coena Dominj Nostrj Jhesu Christj Declaratio. A
Transcription of the Leiden Codex Voss. Chym. Fol. 24, f. 12r–29v.” Nova Acta Paracelsica
N. F. 16 (2002): 107-139.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus’ Declaratio on the Lord’s Supper. A Summary with Remarks on the Term
Limbus.” Nova Acta Paracelsica N. F. 16 (2002): 141-162.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus–die Sakramentenlehre und das Verhältnis von Religion und
Naturwissenschaften in der wissenschaftlichen Revolution.” Manuskripte, Thesen,
Informationen der Deutschen Bombastus-Gesellschaft 16 (2000): 17-26.
Article in Encyclopedia
Daniel, Dane T. “Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). In New
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (Forthcoming, 2007).
Book Reviews
Wilhelm Kuhlmann and Joachim Telle, Editors. Der Frühparacelsismus. Zweiter Teil. Tübingen:
Niemeyer, 2004. Nuncius. Journal of the History of Science (Forthcoming, 2007, pp. 395-397).
Hereward Tilton, The Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of
Count Michael Maier (1569-1622). ISIS (December 2006).
Jole Shackelford, A Philosophical Path for Paraclesian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and
Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540/2-1602). Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2004 Review
approved by the JHP for amplification and publication as “New Light on Early Paracelsianism” in
Chemical Heritage Magazine (July 2006).
Jole Shackelford, A Philosophical Path for Paraclesian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and
Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540/2-1602). Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2004.
Journal of the History of Philosophy (October 2005).
(three other reviews pending)
Journalistic/Magazine Pieces
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus in the Neville Collection.” Chemical Heritage Magazine (Spring,
2006): 26-27.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus’ Alchimistische Religion,” in Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin
Magazin (2002): 37-9.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus’ Begriff des neuen Koerpers,” in Internationales Studienzentrum
Berlin Magazin (2001): 45-6.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus und die Beichte,” in Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin Magazin
(2000): 50-1.
PROJECTS
Book Project:
The Heresies of Paracelsus: Biblical-Magical Cosmology and the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution.
Estimated Completion Date: October 2008.
Translation/Edition Projects:
Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, or Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), Astronomia
Magna: Sagacious Philosophy of the Macrocosm and Microcosm. Translated with an
Introduction and Notes. Estimated Completion Date: 2010. (With Heinz Schott, University of Bonn)
Paracelsus, Liber de Imaginibus. A Transcription, Translation, Introduction, and Notes of the First
Printed Edition from the Archidoxorvm (Basel: Perna, 1572) in the Neville Collection at the
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia. (Working title for this translation that has already
been completed: “Paracelsus on the Imaginative Powers and their Medical Application. With a
Translation of the Liber de Imaginibus”). Estimated Completion Date: 2008.
Articles in Progress:
“Toward a Reunification of Paracelsus’ Natural Philosophical and Theological Theories in the
Historiography of Science” or “Pick Your Poison: Paracelsus’ Reputations and the
Historiography of Science” (potential titles). To be submitted to History of Science.
“The Problem of ‘Spiritual Alchemy’ and New Insight into Paracelsiana and Alchemy
in Recent Anglophone Books of the History of Science” (tentative title). To be submitted to
Nova Acta Paracelsica.
CONFERENCES AND INVITED PAPERS
2008: “Christian Alchemy,” Faculty Lecture Series, Wright State University – Lake Campus. Forthcoming in
February.
2007: “Paracelsus and the Powers of Imagination,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Minneapolis.
October.
2006: “Alchemical Aspects of Paracelsus’ Theology,” History of Science Society, Vancouver, British
Columbia. November.
2006: “Coping with Heresy?: Suchten, Toxites and the Early Reception of Paracelsus’ Theology,” History of
Alchemy and Chymistry Conference, Philadelphia. July.
2006: “The Occult: Paracelsus and the Scientific Significance of Magic.” Junior Scholars Series, Wright State
University-Lake Campus. February.
2005: “Pick Your Poison: Paracelsus and His Reputations.” Faculty Lecture Series, Wright State University –
Lake Campus.
2005: “Paracelsus on Feminine Flesh: Mary, Eve, and the Role of Women in Generation.” Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference, Atlanta. October.
2005: “Demystifying Paracelsus: Rescuing Theophrastus from Scholarly Misappropriation.” Chemical Heritage
Foundation. July.
2004: “The Wandering Magus: Paracelsus’ Medical Practice.” History of Science Society, Austin.
November.
2004: “Paracelsus on Magic and the Making of Medicine.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Toronto. October.
2004: “A Reassessment of Paracelsus’ Natural Philosophy in Light of his Biblical Exegesis.” Colloquium of the
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology MIT. April.
2004: “Rethinking Paracelsus’ Concept of Body and Matter.” Colloquium of the Harvard University History of
Medicine Working Group. February.
2003: “Religious Aspects of Paracelsus’ Division of the Human.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Pittsburgh. November.
2003: “Paracelsus’ Theology and the Historiography of the Scientific Revolution.” History of Science Midwest
Junto, University of Minnesota. April.
2002: “Paracelsus’ Alchimistische Religion.” Invited lecture, Internationales Studienzentrum
Berlin, Max Kade-Saal. June. (Presented in German.)
2001: “Paracelsus and the Eternal ‘Limbus’.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
Denver. October.
2000: “Paracelsus, die Sakramentenlehre und das Verhältnis von Religion und Naturwissenschaften in der
Wissenschaftlichen Revolution.” Colloquium, Deutsche Bombastus–Gesellschaft (German Paracelsus
Society), Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany. March. (Presented in German.)
1999: “Paracelsus’ Theology and Anthropology.” Invited lecture, Humboldt University—Berlin.
November.
1998: “Paracelsus and Erasmus on the Threefold Division of the Human Being: A Comparative Study.”
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Toronto. October.
1998: “The Rejection of Aristotelian Hylomorphism in Paracelsus’ Writings on Penance and Baptism.” History
of Science Midwest Junto, University of Minnesota. April.
1997: “The Formation and Function of the Scholastic Empyrean.” Tenth Annual Medieval Symposium, Indiana
University. March.
1996: “Catholic Reactions to Pioneering Cosmological Ideas: A Comparison between Scholasticism and the
Scientific Revolution.” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Student Conference, Hardin-Simmons University
(Texas). April.
1995: “Why is the Devil Frozen? Evil as a Privation in Dante’s Inferno.” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Student
Conference, Tarleton State University (Texas). April.
1995: “John Buridan’s Cosmology (Fourteenth Century).” Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting,
Dallas. March.
1994: “John Buridan’s Cosmology (Fourteenth Century).” American Historical Association Teaching of
History Conference, University of North Texas. October.
SPECIALIZATION
• Medieval and Early Modern European Natural Philosophy, especially German, particularly
Paracelsus and Alchemy
• Science and Religion
• Cosmology (ancient, medieval, Scientific Revolution)
• Science vs. Pseudo-Science, including Science and the Occult
GENERAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• History of Science and Medicine (ancient-present)
• History of the Occult in World Civilization (magic, witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, divination, etc.)
• Surveys of European History: Ancient and Medieval, Early Modern, Modern
• Renaissance, and Reformation History
• Interdisciplinary Studies in the Sciences and Humanities; Comparison of Western and Non-Western
Thought (ancient and modern)
• World Civilization (before 1700)
• United States History (from 1865)
EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE (LONG VERSION)
• Assistant Professor of History, Wright State University – Lake Campus, From September 2005.
• Neville Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, July-August 2005.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, 2003-2005.
• Adjunct Lecturer, Integrated Studies Program, Suffolk University – Boston, 2004-2005.
(Instructor, Fall 2004, two sections of IS 111: “Ancient Thought: An Interdisciplinary
Comparison of Western and Non-Western Traditions;” Instructor, Spring 2005, two sections of
IS 112: “Boundaries of the Modern World: Cultural Intersection, Discovery and Specialization,
and Conflicting Ideologies”)
• Assistant Instructor, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University – Bloomington, 2002-
2003. [Instructor, self-designed course “Magic, Mysticism, and the Scientific Revolution”
(taught twice).]
• English Language Trainer (part-time), American Language Academy – Berlin, 2000-2002.
• Assistant Instructor, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University – Bloomington,
1997-1999. [Instructor, “Ancient Science and Modern Superstition” (taught twice); Assistant (grader and
discussion leader), “Voyages of Scientific Discovery” (Prof. Richard Sorrenson) and “The Occult in Western
Civilization” (Prof. Edward Grant).
• Graduate Assistant, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University, 1996-1997. (Duties included:
general office work, writing, editing, and production of Medieval Studies Newsletter.)
• Teaching Fellow, History, University of North Texas, 1995-1996. [Instructor, “World Civilization
before 1500” (taught twice); Instructor, “United States History from 1865” (taught four
times).
• Teaching Assistant, History, University of North Texas, 1994-1995. [Assistant, “United States
History from 1865” (assisted four times); Assistant, Texas Academy of Math and Sciences’
“Classic Learning Core U.S. History from 1865.”
• Piano Instructor, Forte Piano Music Store, Denton, Texas, 1992-1994, and private, 1992-2003.
HONORS AND AWARDS
• 2005 Partington Prize for the paper, “Rethinking Paracelsus’ Concept of Body and Matter.” Awarded
every three years by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (London) for an
original and unpublished essay on any aspect of the history of alchemy or chemistry.
• 2005 Neville Fellowship, Chemical Heritage Foundation. Funding for two months at the CHF in
Philadelphia.
• 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
MIT.
• 2001-2002 Indiana University/Free University – Berlin Graduate Student Exchange Program
Scholarship. Funding for one academic year.
• 2001 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Indiana University. Funding for a flight from Berlin to
Denver for the 2001 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
• 2000-2001 Indiana University/Free University – Berlin Graduate Student Exchange Program
Scholarship. Funding for one academic year.
• 1999-2000 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Annual Grant. Funding for one
academic year in Germany.
• 1997 HPSC Departmental Travel Grant (History of Science Midwest Junto), Indiana University.
• 1995 International Studies Office Grant, Student Exchange Program (Germany), University of
North Texas.
• 1995 Outstanding Graduate Student (M.A.) Award (1994-1995), Department of History,
University of North Texas.
• 1995 Jack Scroggs Scholarship, Department of History, University of North Texas.
• 1995 Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society).
• 1994 Jim Berry Pearson Scholarship, Department of History, University of North Texas.
• 1994 Classic Learning Core Teacher Training Program Grant, University of North Texas.
• 1990-1993 Dean’s List: Fall 1990, Spring 1991, Fall 1991, Spring 1992, Fall 1992, Spring 1993,
University of North Texas.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, History of Science Society, 2002 to present.
Member, American Historical Association, 2002 to present.
Member, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 1996 to present.
Member, International Society for Paracelsus Studies, 2005 to present.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Organizer, Conference Session, “A Volatile Relationship? Theory and Practice in Early Modern
Chemistry,” History of Science Society, Austin. November 2004.
Organizer, Annual Picnic of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana U.
May 2003.
Preparation of entries for the on-line Paracelsus Lexicon of the Paracelsus Project, Zurich. 2001.
Organizing Committee for the 10th Annual Medieval Symposium, “Nature and Culture: Shaping
Identity in the Middle Ages,” Indiana University – Bloomington. 1997.
Presider at Session 5, Medieval Symposium Indiana U. – Bloomington. March, 1997.
Graduate Student Representative, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University –
Bloomington. 1996-1999.
Presider at session. World History Association of Texas Conference. University of North
Texas. October, 1995.
Presider at session. World History Association of Texas Conference. University of North
Texas. October, 1994.
REFERENCES
Prof. William R. Newman, Dept. Hist. and Phil. of Sci., Indiana U., wnewman@indiana.edu
Prof. Jole Shackelford, Prog. in Hist. of Medicine, U. of Minnesota, shack001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Prof. Gerald Richman, Program of Integrated Studies, Suffolk University, grichman@suffolk.edu
Dr. Urs Leo Gantenbein, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Hist. of Med., Uni. Zurich,
ursleo.gantenbein@mhiz.unizh.ch
• Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science (with a History minor), Indiana University – Bloomington,
September 2003.
• Area Certificate in Medieval Studies, Indiana University- Bloomington, May, 2000.
• M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University – Bloomington, November 1999.
• M.A. in History, University of North Texas, August 1995. Thesis: “The Empyrean: The Pinnacle of the
Medieval World View (Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries)” (Advisor: Roy DeCarvalho)
• B.M. in Jazz Studies (with a music theory minor, performance emphasis, and piano
concentration), University of North Texas, May 1993.
DISSERTATION
• Title: “Paracelsus’ Astronomia Magna (1537/38): Bible-Based Science and the
Religious Roots of the Scientific Revolution”
• Dissertation Chair: William R. Newman, Ph.D., Dept. of Hist. and Phil. of Sci., Indiana U.
• Minor Representative: Jonathan Sheehan, Ph.D., Department of History, Indiana University
• Other committee members: Ann Carmichael, M.D./Ph.D., Dept. of Hist.; Dept. of Hist. and Phil. of
Science, Indiana University
Urs Leo Gantenbein, M.D., Institute and Museum for the History of
Medicine, University of Zurich; President of the Swiss Paracelsus
Society; Director of the Paracelsus Project
Jole Shackelford, Ph.D., Program in the History of Medicine,
University of Minnesota
POSTDOCTORAL EMPLOYMENT
2005-present: Assistant Professor of History (tenure-track), Wright State University – Lake Campus
2005: Neville Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.
2002-2004: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT
2003-2004: Senior Adjunct Lecturer, Suffolk University – Boston, Program of Integrated Studies
PRINTED SCHOLARSHIP
Articles in Books
Daniel, Dane T. “Coping with Heresy: Suchten, Toxites, and the Early Reception of Paracelsus's
Theology.” In Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern
Chemistry, edited by Lawrence M. Principe, 53-62. Sagamore Beach: Chemical Heritage
Foundation and Science History Publications/USA, a division of Watson Publishing
International LLC, 2007.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus on Baptism and the Acquiring of the Eternal Body.” In Paracelsian
Moments: Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe, ed. Gerhild Scholz
Williams and Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr., 116-134. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal
Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Articles in Journals
Daniel, Dane T. “Invisible Wombs: Rethinking Paracelsus’s Concept of Body and Matter.” Ambix
(2006): 129-142.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus on the Lord’s Supper: Coena Dominj Nostrj Jhesu Christj Declaratio. A
Transcription of the Leiden Codex Voss. Chym. Fol. 24, f. 12r–29v.” Nova Acta Paracelsica
N. F. 16 (2002): 107-139.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus’ Declaratio on the Lord’s Supper. A Summary with Remarks on the Term
Limbus.” Nova Acta Paracelsica N. F. 16 (2002): 141-162.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus–die Sakramentenlehre und das Verhältnis von Religion und
Naturwissenschaften in der wissenschaftlichen Revolution.” Manuskripte, Thesen,
Informationen der Deutschen Bombastus-Gesellschaft 16 (2000): 17-26.
Article in Encyclopedia
Daniel, Dane T. “Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). In New
Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (Forthcoming, 2007).
Book Reviews
Wilhelm Kuhlmann and Joachim Telle, Editors. Der Frühparacelsismus. Zweiter Teil. Tübingen:
Niemeyer, 2004. Nuncius. Journal of the History of Science (Forthcoming, 2007, pp. 395-397).
Hereward Tilton, The Quest for the Phoenix: Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of
Count Michael Maier (1569-1622). ISIS (December 2006).
Jole Shackelford, A Philosophical Path for Paraclesian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and
Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540/2-1602). Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2004 Review
approved by the JHP for amplification and publication as “New Light on Early Paracelsianism” in
Chemical Heritage Magazine (July 2006).
Jole Shackelford, A Philosophical Path for Paraclesian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and
Influence of Petrus Severinus (1540/2-1602). Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2004.
Journal of the History of Philosophy (October 2005).
(three other reviews pending)
Journalistic/Magazine Pieces
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus in the Neville Collection.” Chemical Heritage Magazine (Spring,
2006): 26-27.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus’ Alchimistische Religion,” in Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin
Magazin (2002): 37-9.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus’ Begriff des neuen Koerpers,” in Internationales Studienzentrum
Berlin Magazin (2001): 45-6.
Daniel, Dane Thor. “Paracelsus und die Beichte,” in Internationales Studienzentrum Berlin Magazin
(2000): 50-1.
PROJECTS
Book Project:
The Heresies of Paracelsus: Biblical-Magical Cosmology and the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution.
Estimated Completion Date: October 2008.
Translation/Edition Projects:
Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, or Paracelsus (1493/4-1541), Astronomia
Magna: Sagacious Philosophy of the Macrocosm and Microcosm. Translated with an
Introduction and Notes. Estimated Completion Date: 2010. (With Heinz Schott, University of Bonn)
Paracelsus, Liber de Imaginibus. A Transcription, Translation, Introduction, and Notes of the First
Printed Edition from the Archidoxorvm (Basel: Perna, 1572) in the Neville Collection at the
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia. (Working title for this translation that has already
been completed: “Paracelsus on the Imaginative Powers and their Medical Application. With a
Translation of the Liber de Imaginibus”). Estimated Completion Date: 2008.
Articles in Progress:
“Toward a Reunification of Paracelsus’ Natural Philosophical and Theological Theories in the
Historiography of Science” or “Pick Your Poison: Paracelsus’ Reputations and the
Historiography of Science” (potential titles). To be submitted to History of Science.
“The Problem of ‘Spiritual Alchemy’ and New Insight into Paracelsiana and Alchemy
in Recent Anglophone Books of the History of Science” (tentative title). To be submitted to
Nova Acta Paracelsica.
CONFERENCES AND INVITED PAPERS
2008: “Christian Alchemy,” Faculty Lecture Series, Wright State University – Lake Campus. Forthcoming in
February.
2007: “Paracelsus and the Powers of Imagination,” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Minneapolis.
October.
2006: “Alchemical Aspects of Paracelsus’ Theology,” History of Science Society, Vancouver, British
Columbia. November.
2006: “Coping with Heresy?: Suchten, Toxites and the Early Reception of Paracelsus’ Theology,” History of
Alchemy and Chymistry Conference, Philadelphia. July.
2006: “The Occult: Paracelsus and the Scientific Significance of Magic.” Junior Scholars Series, Wright State
University-Lake Campus. February.
2005: “Pick Your Poison: Paracelsus and His Reputations.” Faculty Lecture Series, Wright State University –
Lake Campus.
2005: “Paracelsus on Feminine Flesh: Mary, Eve, and the Role of Women in Generation.” Sixteenth Century
Society and Conference, Atlanta. October.
2005: “Demystifying Paracelsus: Rescuing Theophrastus from Scholarly Misappropriation.” Chemical Heritage
Foundation. July.
2004: “The Wandering Magus: Paracelsus’ Medical Practice.” History of Science Society, Austin.
November.
2004: “Paracelsus on Magic and the Making of Medicine.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Toronto. October.
2004: “A Reassessment of Paracelsus’ Natural Philosophy in Light of his Biblical Exegesis.” Colloquium of the
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology MIT. April.
2004: “Rethinking Paracelsus’ Concept of Body and Matter.” Colloquium of the Harvard University History of
Medicine Working Group. February.
2003: “Religious Aspects of Paracelsus’ Division of the Human.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,
Pittsburgh. November.
2003: “Paracelsus’ Theology and the Historiography of the Scientific Revolution.” History of Science Midwest
Junto, University of Minnesota. April.
2002: “Paracelsus’ Alchimistische Religion.” Invited lecture, Internationales Studienzentrum
Berlin, Max Kade-Saal. June. (Presented in German.)
2001: “Paracelsus and the Eternal ‘Limbus’.” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference,
Denver. October.
2000: “Paracelsus, die Sakramentenlehre und das Verhältnis von Religion und Naturwissenschaften in der
Wissenschaftlichen Revolution.” Colloquium, Deutsche Bombastus–Gesellschaft (German Paracelsus
Society), Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany. March. (Presented in German.)
1999: “Paracelsus’ Theology and Anthropology.” Invited lecture, Humboldt University—Berlin.
November.
1998: “Paracelsus and Erasmus on the Threefold Division of the Human Being: A Comparative Study.”
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Toronto. October.
1998: “The Rejection of Aristotelian Hylomorphism in Paracelsus’ Writings on Penance and Baptism.” History
of Science Midwest Junto, University of Minnesota. April.
1997: “The Formation and Function of the Scholastic Empyrean.” Tenth Annual Medieval Symposium, Indiana
University. March.
1996: “Catholic Reactions to Pioneering Cosmological Ideas: A Comparison between Scholasticism and the
Scientific Revolution.” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Student Conference, Hardin-Simmons University
(Texas). April.
1995: “Why is the Devil Frozen? Evil as a Privation in Dante’s Inferno.” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Student
Conference, Tarleton State University (Texas). April.
1995: “John Buridan’s Cosmology (Fourteenth Century).” Southwestern Social Science Association Meeting,
Dallas. March.
1994: “John Buridan’s Cosmology (Fourteenth Century).” American Historical Association Teaching of
History Conference, University of North Texas. October.
SPECIALIZATION
• Medieval and Early Modern European Natural Philosophy, especially German, particularly
Paracelsus and Alchemy
• Science and Religion
• Cosmology (ancient, medieval, Scientific Revolution)
• Science vs. Pseudo-Science, including Science and the Occult
GENERAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• History of Science and Medicine (ancient-present)
• History of the Occult in World Civilization (magic, witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, divination, etc.)
• Surveys of European History: Ancient and Medieval, Early Modern, Modern
• Renaissance, and Reformation History
• Interdisciplinary Studies in the Sciences and Humanities; Comparison of Western and Non-Western
Thought (ancient and modern)
• World Civilization (before 1700)
• United States History (from 1865)
EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE (LONG VERSION)
• Assistant Professor of History, Wright State University – Lake Campus, From September 2005.
• Neville Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation, July-August 2005.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT, 2003-2005.
• Adjunct Lecturer, Integrated Studies Program, Suffolk University – Boston, 2004-2005.
(Instructor, Fall 2004, two sections of IS 111: “Ancient Thought: An Interdisciplinary
Comparison of Western and Non-Western Traditions;” Instructor, Spring 2005, two sections of
IS 112: “Boundaries of the Modern World: Cultural Intersection, Discovery and Specialization,
and Conflicting Ideologies”)
• Assistant Instructor, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University – Bloomington, 2002-
2003. [Instructor, self-designed course “Magic, Mysticism, and the Scientific Revolution”
(taught twice).]
• English Language Trainer (part-time), American Language Academy – Berlin, 2000-2002.
• Assistant Instructor, History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University – Bloomington,
1997-1999. [Instructor, “Ancient Science and Modern Superstition” (taught twice); Assistant (grader and
discussion leader), “Voyages of Scientific Discovery” (Prof. Richard Sorrenson) and “The Occult in Western
Civilization” (Prof. Edward Grant).
• Graduate Assistant, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University, 1996-1997. (Duties included:
general office work, writing, editing, and production of Medieval Studies Newsletter.)
• Teaching Fellow, History, University of North Texas, 1995-1996. [Instructor, “World Civilization
before 1500” (taught twice); Instructor, “United States History from 1865” (taught four
times).
• Teaching Assistant, History, University of North Texas, 1994-1995. [Assistant, “United States
History from 1865” (assisted four times); Assistant, Texas Academy of Math and Sciences’
“Classic Learning Core U.S. History from 1865.”
• Piano Instructor, Forte Piano Music Store, Denton, Texas, 1992-1994, and private, 1992-2003.
HONORS AND AWARDS
• 2005 Partington Prize for the paper, “Rethinking Paracelsus’ Concept of Body and Matter.” Awarded
every three years by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (London) for an
original and unpublished essay on any aspect of the history of alchemy or chemistry.
• 2005 Neville Fellowship, Chemical Heritage Foundation. Funding for two months at the CHF in
Philadelphia.
• 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
MIT.
• 2001-2002 Indiana University/Free University – Berlin Graduate Student Exchange Program
Scholarship. Funding for one academic year.
• 2001 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Indiana University. Funding for a flight from Berlin to
Denver for the 2001 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
• 2000-2001 Indiana University/Free University – Berlin Graduate Student Exchange Program
Scholarship. Funding for one academic year.
• 1999-2000 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Annual Grant. Funding for one
academic year in Germany.
• 1997 HPSC Departmental Travel Grant (History of Science Midwest Junto), Indiana University.
• 1995 International Studies Office Grant, Student Exchange Program (Germany), University of
North Texas.
• 1995 Outstanding Graduate Student (M.A.) Award (1994-1995), Department of History,
University of North Texas.
• 1995 Jack Scroggs Scholarship, Department of History, University of North Texas.
• 1995 Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society).
• 1994 Jim Berry Pearson Scholarship, Department of History, University of North Texas.
• 1994 Classic Learning Core Teacher Training Program Grant, University of North Texas.
• 1990-1993 Dean’s List: Fall 1990, Spring 1991, Fall 1991, Spring 1992, Fall 1992, Spring 1993,
University of North Texas.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, History of Science Society, 2002 to present.
Member, American Historical Association, 2002 to present.
Member, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 1996 to present.
Member, International Society for Paracelsus Studies, 2005 to present.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Organizer, Conference Session, “A Volatile Relationship? Theory and Practice in Early Modern
Chemistry,” History of Science Society, Austin. November 2004.
Organizer, Annual Picnic of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana U.
May 2003.
Preparation of entries for the on-line Paracelsus Lexicon of the Paracelsus Project, Zurich. 2001.
Organizing Committee for the 10th Annual Medieval Symposium, “Nature and Culture: Shaping
Identity in the Middle Ages,” Indiana University – Bloomington. 1997.
Presider at Session 5, Medieval Symposium Indiana U. – Bloomington. March, 1997.
Graduate Student Representative, Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University –
Bloomington. 1996-1999.
Presider at session. World History Association of Texas Conference. University of North
Texas. October, 1995.
Presider at session. World History Association of Texas Conference. University of North
Texas. October, 1994.
REFERENCES
Prof. William R. Newman, Dept. Hist. and Phil. of Sci., Indiana U., wnewman@indiana.edu
Prof. Jole Shackelford, Prog. in Hist. of Medicine, U. of Minnesota, shack001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Prof. Gerald Richman, Program of Integrated Studies, Suffolk University, grichman@suffolk.edu
Dr. Urs Leo Gantenbein, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Hist. of Med., Uni. Zurich,
ursleo.gantenbein@mhiz.unizh.ch
SELECT GRADUATE COURSE WORK
Indiana University
History and Philosophy of Science:
HPSC X506 Survey of Science up to 1800
HPSC X551 Survey of the Phil. of Science (20th cent.)
HPSC X705 Alchemy and its Offspring
HPSC X507 Survey of Science since 1800
HPSC X705 Paracelsus: Magic, Science, Religion
HPSC X642 History of Psychology (Mind-Body Connection)
HPSC X632 Historical Problems in Evolutionary Biology (Reception of Darwin)
HPSC X756 Topics in the Philosophy of Science (Popper and The Science Wars)
HPSC X556 Philosophy of Science in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
HPSC X705 Natural Magic and Astrology, Middle Ages-17th century
HPSC X705 History of Anatomy (Early Modern, Body and Machines)
HPSC X706 Methodology (Mainly Bacon), The Experimental Method, The
Mechanical Philosophy (Mainly Boyle), and Matter Theory
Language courses:
CLAS L300 Intens. Intro. to Class. and Med. Latin
CLAS L400 Intensive Study of Literary Latin
CLAS G301 Classical Greek – Accelerated Course 1
CLAS G302 Classical Greek – Accelerated Course 2
Other courses:
MEST M502 Medieval Latin Paleography
MUS T557 Studies in the Theory of Music (Theories of Tuning)
HIST H575 Graduate Readings in Hist. (Paracelsus and Religion-Science Issues)
University of North Texas
PHIL 5110 Knowledge Theory
HIST 5040 Religion in Early Modern Europe
HIST 5040 Modern European Intellectual History (Focus on Darwin)
HIST 5900 History of Science to Newton
HIST 4800 U.S. and Latin American Diplomatic Relations
HIST 5110 American Feminism
HIST 6050 Classical Learning Core Teacher Training Program
HIST 5040 Medieval History
HIST 5040 Idea of Human Nature (Focus on Freud)
HIST 5940 Historical Bibliography
HIST 5080 Popular Religious Dissent and the Reformation
HIST 5980 Teaching College History
HIST 5100 Seminar in U.S. History (Rise of the Welfare State)
HIST 5040 19th-Century Europe
HIST 4260 Religion in Late Antiquity
HIST 5040 Enlightenment in Europe
Humboldt University – Berlin
Paläographie der Neuzeit (16.-18. Jahrhundert)
Nichtmechanische Naturphilosophie in der Zeit Galileis und Descartes
Free University – Berlin
Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Stipendiaten-Program)
Die Reformation in Straßburg (16. Jh.)
Platon, Timaios II (audited)
Deutschland in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Diktatur und Kultur 1933-1945)
Übung zur Edition deutschsprachiger Texte des späten Mittelalters
Last Updated 11 January 2008
History and Philosophy of Science:
HPSC X506 Survey of Science up to 1800
HPSC X551 Survey of the Phil. of Science (20th cent.)
HPSC X705 Alchemy and its Offspring
HPSC X507 Survey of Science since 1800
HPSC X705 Paracelsus: Magic, Science, Religion
HPSC X642 History of Psychology (Mind-Body Connection)
HPSC X632 Historical Problems in Evolutionary Biology (Reception of Darwin)
HPSC X756 Topics in the Philosophy of Science (Popper and The Science Wars)
HPSC X556 Philosophy of Science in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
HPSC X705 Natural Magic and Astrology, Middle Ages-17th century
HPSC X705 History of Anatomy (Early Modern, Body and Machines)
HPSC X706 Methodology (Mainly Bacon), The Experimental Method, The
Mechanical Philosophy (Mainly Boyle), and Matter Theory
Language courses:
CLAS L300 Intens. Intro. to Class. and Med. Latin
CLAS L400 Intensive Study of Literary Latin
CLAS G301 Classical Greek – Accelerated Course 1
CLAS G302 Classical Greek – Accelerated Course 2
Other courses:
MEST M502 Medieval Latin Paleography
MUS T557 Studies in the Theory of Music (Theories of Tuning)
HIST H575 Graduate Readings in Hist. (Paracelsus and Religion-Science Issues)
University of North Texas
PHIL 5110 Knowledge Theory
HIST 5040 Religion in Early Modern Europe
HIST 5040 Modern European Intellectual History (Focus on Darwin)
HIST 5900 History of Science to Newton
HIST 4800 U.S. and Latin American Diplomatic Relations
HIST 5110 American Feminism
HIST 6050 Classical Learning Core Teacher Training Program
HIST 5040 Medieval History
HIST 5040 Idea of Human Nature (Focus on Freud)
HIST 5940 Historical Bibliography
HIST 5080 Popular Religious Dissent and the Reformation
HIST 5980 Teaching College History
HIST 5100 Seminar in U.S. History (Rise of the Welfare State)
HIST 5040 19th-Century Europe
HIST 4260 Religion in Late Antiquity
HIST 5040 Enlightenment in Europe
Humboldt University – Berlin
Paläographie der Neuzeit (16.-18. Jahrhundert)
Nichtmechanische Naturphilosophie in der Zeit Galileis und Descartes
Free University – Berlin
Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Stipendiaten-Program)
Die Reformation in Straßburg (16. Jh.)
Platon, Timaios II (audited)
Deutschland in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Diktatur und Kultur 1933-1945)
Übung zur Edition deutschsprachiger Texte des späten Mittelalters
Last Updated 11 January 2008
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