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Department of History
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0104
Education
PhD – (in progress) University of California, San Diego, History and Science Studies
BA – University of San Diego, Computer Science, 2004
Employment
Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, 2008-Present
Reader, University of California, San Diego, 2007-2008
Senior Software Engineer, Kyocera-Wireless Corp., 2006-2007
Software Engineer, Kyocera-Wireless Corp., 2004-2006
Research Areas
- History of evolution and creationism
- Politics of public education and evolution in the United States
- Science education and conservative Christian movements
Work in Progress
James Tracy. “Disciplined Interdisciplinarity: Science Studies in Action.” (Writing)
James Tracy. “Was the Tennessee Anti-Evolution Law a Symbolic Protest?” (Writing)
James Tracy. “An Open Road to Learning? Evolution and the Politics of Education in North Carolina and Tennessee, 1925.” (Under Review)
Conference Papers
“Was the Tennessee Anti-Evolution Law a Symbolic Protest?”
- All Graduate Research Symposium, University of California, San Diego, 5 February 2010.
- Biology by the Sea, University of California, San Diego, 23 Janurary 2010.
“An Open Road to Learning? Evolution and the Politics of Education in North Carolina and Tennessee, 1925.”
- Interdisciplinary US History Graduate Conference, University of California, San Diego, 12 October 2009.
General Talks
“Battle of the Books: Science Education and America’s Culture Wars”
- San Diego Secular Humanist Outreach, 12 June 2010.
“A Plea for History: Science and Religion in the Galileo Affair”
- Rational Thought at UC San Diego, 13 April 2010.
Awards and Honors
- UCSD Student Book Collection Competition Graduate Division Winner, “Charles Darwin: A History of Biography and Interpretation”, 2010
- UCSD Student Book Collection Competition Graduate Division Winner, “The Great Monkey Trial”, 2009
- Science Studies Program Research Travel Grant, 2009
- UCSD Student Book Collection Competition Graduate Division Winner, “Darwinism, Evolution, and Religion”, 2008
- History Department/Science Studies Fellowship, 2007-2008
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
- Sixth College Practicum Writing, Winter 2010, Spring 2010
- Controlling Life, Spring 2009
- Laws of Men and Laws of Nature, Winter 2009
- Culture, Art, & Technology, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Reader
- Great Stories from the Hebrew Bible, Winter 2010
- Anthropology and the Hebrew Bible, Fall 2009
- History of Daosim in China, Spring 2008
- Science, Technology, & Law in America, Winter 2008
- The Atom Bomb and the Atomic Age, Fall 2007
Associations
- History of Science Society
- National Center for Science Education
- Skeptics Society
