CV
EDUCATION
2008–2013 University of Cambridge
PhD in History and Philosophy of Science
2007–2008 University of Cambridge
MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
2005–2007 York University (Canada)
MA in History of Art
1998–2002 Mount Allison University (Canada)
BFA in Printmaking and Drawing, Minor in Religious Studies
FELLOWSHIPS
2015–16 Postdoc Fellowship, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Oct. 2015–March 2016.
2015 Visiting Scholar, Special Collections at St Andrews University Library, held 6 July–31 July.
BSECS–Bodleian Fellow, Bodleian Library, held 1 June–30 June.
2014 Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, held 20 March–20 June.
2008 RMMLA / Huntington Library Fellowship, held 20 June–19 July.
2001 Crake Research Project Fellowship, J. E. A. Crake Foundation.
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Credo Pull. The Hamilton Print Studio, Hamilton (duo)
2005 The Straightaway. George Gilmour Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto (solo)
2004 The Living is Easy. Struts Gallery, Sackville (duo)
Record. Engine Gallery, Toronto (duo)
2003 The Breadth of our Heart. Struts Gallery, Sackville (solo)
2001 Industry and Its Pendulum. START Gallery, Sackville (solo)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Square Foot. AWOL Gallery, Toronto.
The Drawing Show. Eastern Front Gallery, Toronto.
The Little Prints Exhibition. John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto.
Evolution. Windsor Printmaker’s Forum, Windsor.
2002 Fine Arts Graduating Class 2002. Owens Art Gallery, Sackville.
2001 Project Mobilivre–Bookmobile Project. Various venues across Canada and USA.
WRITING PRACTICE
BOOK
- Archetypes of Nature: visualizing geological landscape during the British Enlightenment, based on my PhD dissertation [in progress].
ARTICLES
- ‘Geological landscape as antiquarian ruin: Banks, Pennant and the Isle of Staffa’ in Enlightenment travel and British identity: Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Scotland and Wales, edited by Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask (Anthem Press, 2017): 183–201.
- ‘Unifying prospects: tinting geological maps’ Cartographica 51.3 (2016): 159–174.
- ‘A philosophical pursuit: natural models and the practical arts in establishing the structure of the earth’, History of Science 53 (2015): 124–154.
- ‘The problem of describing colour; or, the surface of things’, in Viewpoint 102 (2013): 16–17.
BOOK REVIEWS
- Martin J. S. Rudwick. 2014. Earth’s deep history: how it was discovered and why it matters, in British Journal for the History of Science 49 (2016): 116–117.
- Angela Byrne. 2013. Geographies of the romantic north: science, antiquarianism, and travel, 1790–1830, in British Journal for the History of Science 48 (2015): 180–181.
- Jed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold. (2012). Newton and the origin of civilization, in British Journal for the History of Science 46 (2013): 345–347.
- Eva Koleva Timothy. (2010). Lost in learning: the art of discovery, Viewpoint 94 (2011): 12.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017–18 Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology. Milstein Exhibition Centre,
Cambridge University Library, 24 November 2017 – 29 March 2018.
2002 The party favor project. Struts Gallery, Sackville. Curated exhibition of five contemporary
Canadian artists: Michael Dumontier; Eric Edson; Gwen Macgregor; Alison Norlen and Daniel
Olson.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
- Tour guide at Moggerhanger House, built by Sir John Soane (1753–1837).
- Special Collections Visiting Scholars –– Visiting Forbes’ coloured atmospheres https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/special-collections-visiting-scholars-visiting-forbes-coloured-atmospheres/. Posted 8 October 2015.
- From weather-wise to weather forecasting: meteorological instruments at the Whipple Museum https://camunivmuseums.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/from-weather-wise-to-weather-forecasting-meteorological-instruments-at-the-whipple-museum/. Posted 25 September 2014.
CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS
2016 Co-organized conference panel with Dr Courtney Long, ‘The making of architectural knowledge: intersections of architecture and science’, The Making of the Humanities V Conference, Johns Hopkins University, October 5–7 2016.
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR TALKS (selected)
2016 June ‘Mediating landscapes: picturesque sensibility and early geology in Britain’, Sky and Earth: Geology and Meteorology in the UK panel at 3-Societies Meeting, University of Alberta.
2016 Feb. ‘Primitive forms and prospects: geological landscapes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth century Britain’, Research Seminar, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London.
2014 Sept. ‘Geological landscape as antiquarian ruin: Banks, Pennant and the Isle of Staffa’, Classical Celtic: Wales and Scotland in a Mediterranean Light. A day-conference jointly organized by the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and the National Museum of Wales, held at the Museum in Cardiff.
2013 Feb. ‘Sir Joseph Banks, Thomas Pennant and the Isle of Staffa as ‘natural’ architecture’. Paper presented at Thomas Pennant’s Tours: Curiosity, Travel and the Welsh/Scottish Enlightenment, organized by Mary-Ann Constantine and Nigel Leask.
2012 Nov. ‘Antiquarianism. The eighteenth-century antiquary’, Field Notes Series held at CRASSH, Cambridge University.
2011 Nov. ‘Complementary colours: tinting the geological landscape’, The Science of Images, Images of Science panel organized by Dr David Allan Feller, North American Conference on British Studies, Denver.
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2005 Studio Residency. Vermont Studio Centre, Johnson.
AWARDS
2013–14 Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
2009–12 Rausing Award, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
2008–11 Canada-Cambridge Scholarship, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, University of
Cambridge.
Overseas Research Studentship, Board of Graduate Studies, University of Cambridge.
2008–09 Williamson Award, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
2007–08 Overseas Student Bursary, Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, University of Cambridge.
2005 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson.
2002 Emerging Artist Grant, New Brunswick Arts Board.
TRAVEL GRANTS and SMALLER AWARDS
2016 BSHS 3-Societies Conference Travel Fund.
2013 Research Grant, British Society for the History of Science Outreach and Education
Committee.
2010–11 Butler-Eyles Travel Grant Scheme, British Society for the History Science.
2007–10 Darwin College Travel Fund, University of Cambridge.
2007 Conference Support Fund, York University Student Graduate Association, York University.
2006 Research Costs Fund, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University.
Thesis Support Application, York U. Student Graduate Association, York University.
2002 Leadership Mount Allison, Mount Allison University.