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Born Cleveland, Ohio, January 28, 1939 Department of History Boston University Boston, MA 02215 |
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Education: Harvard University B.A. 1960 (History and Science) Universitat de Barcelona, 1960-61 (Semitic Languages) Columbia University M.A. 1963 (Arabic) Harvard University Ph.D. 1968 (History) | |
| Teaching Positions: Professor of History, Emeritus, Boston University, 2013- ; Professor of History and Geography, Boston University, 1972-2012; Professor of Gastronomy, Boston University Program in Gastronomy, 2005-2012; Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, 1968-71; Associate Professor, 1971-72; Visiting Professor of the History of Science, University of Valencia, Spring 1980; Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, April-May 1988; Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, April-May 1990. Other Professional Activities: Chairman, Department of History, Boston University, 1984-89, 1994-95; Director, Institute for Medieval History, Boston University, 1998-2003; Acting Director, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, 1986-87; Vice-President, New England Medieval Conference, 1998-1999; president, 1999-2000. Darwin Online, Editorial Advisory Panel (2008- ); Estudios sobre la Ciencia (Madrid), Editorial Advisory Board (2008- ); Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Editorial Board, (2007- ); Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Editorial Board (2006-- ); Quipu: Revista Latinoamericana de Historia de las Ciencias y la Tecnología (Mexico City), Editorial Board (1996- ); Epistéme: Filosofia e História das Ciências em Revista (Porto Alegre, Brazil) Editorial Board (1996- ); Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria (Barcelona), Editorial Board (1996- ); Isis, Advisory Editor (1995-97); Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias, Editorial Board (1981-94), North American Book Review Editor; Taller d'Història (Valencia), Editorial Board (1993-95); Latin American Research Review, Assistant Editor, 1968-69; Associate Editor, 1969-72; Advisory Editor. 1973-74; Newsletter of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Editor, 1969-72. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1961-62 National Defense Language Fellow (Arabic), 1962-63 Social Science Research Council, 1965-66; 1970-71 Post-Doctoral Fellow in History, University of Texas, 1967-68 American Council of Learned Societies, 1974-75 American Psychoanalytical Association, 1979 (travel grant) Rockefeller Archives Research Grant, 1987 American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1987 Serra d'Or Prize for Catalan Studies, 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1987-88 Fulbright Senior Lectureship, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, April-May 1988, April-May 1990 National Science Foundation Grant, 1989-90 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1993-94 Dibner Institute Senior Fellow, 2000-2001 Norman MacColl Lecturer, Cambridge University, November 2000 Premio Internacional Geocrítica, 2004 Medalla Académica de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia, 2006 Honorary Doctorate, University of Valencia, 2010 Honorary Judge, Tribunal of Waters, Valencia, 2010 Irrigation, Society and Landscape: A Tribute to Thomas F. Glick, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, September 25-27, 2014. Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona, Corresponding Member (elected 1991) The Linnean Society, Fellow (elected 2008) History of Science Society Society for the History of Technology Sociedad Española de Historia de la Ciencia Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia (Honorary Member) Society for the Preservation of Old Mills |