| Edmund P. Russell III | | Associate Professor, Science Technology�and Society | | Ph.D., University of Michigan | | | | Dr. Russell has served on the faculty since 1994. He has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Rachel Carson Prize of the American Society for Environmental History, the University of Michigan Distinguished Dissertation Award, a University of Virginia Teaching Fellows Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship. In 2001, he received a Forum for the History of Science in America Prize for "The Strange Career of DDT" (awarded to a scholar within 10 years of the Ph.D. for the best article on the history of science in America published in 1998-2000). In 1999, he was among 11 faculty members statewide to receive a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award; and he was the 1998 recipient of the U.Va. Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award, given to one assistant professor at the University. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Society for the History of Technology, the History of Science Society, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Organization of American Historians. | | | | Research Interests | | Edmund Russell studies the interactions between science, technology, society and the environment. His first project, on the history of chemical warfare and pest control, culminated in a book ("War and Nature," 2001). He is now working on a history of dogs as a case study of the co-evolution of human society and another species. | | |
Sponsored Research
War and Nature: Science, Technology, and Metaphor (funded by: National Science Foundation)
American Environmental History (funded by: University of Virginia Teaching Fellows Award)
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