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    Bailkin, J.
    Barlow, T.
    Behlmer, G.
    Camp, S.
    Campbell, E.
    Dhavan, P.
    Dong, M.
    Ebrey, P.
    Felak, J.
    Findlay, J.
    Giebel, C.
    Glenn, S.
    Gregory, J.
    Guy, R. K.
    Hevly, B.
    Johnson, R.
    Jonas, R.
    Joshel, S.
    Jung, M.
    Lopez, S.
    McKenzie, R. T.
    Nam, H.
    Nash, L.
    O'Mara, M.
    O'Neil, M.
    Poiger, U.
    Pyle, K.
    Rafael, V.
    Rodriguez-Silva, I.
    Rorabaugh, W.
    Schmidt, B.
    Schwarz, F.
    Sears, L.
    Singh, N.
    Smallwood, S.
    Spafford, D.
    Stacey, Robert
    Stacey, Robin
    Stein, S.
    Taylor, Q.
    Thomas, C.
    Thomas, L.
    Thurtle, P.
    Toews, J.
    Walker, J.
    Warren, A.
    Werrett, S.
    Wright, M.
    Young, G.

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Phillip Thurtle
Assistant Professor: History and Philosophy of Technology and Science
thurtle@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/thurtle


Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002

Selected Bibliography

The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American
Biology, 1870-1920
(University of Washington Press, due January 2008).

Re-Imagining Biocommerce, a DVD-ROM co-authored with Robert Mitchell and Helen Burgess (under contract with Mariner 10 Series, University of Pennsylvania
Press, due March 2008).

Co-editor with Robert Mitchell, Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (University of Washington Press, 2002).

Co-editor with Robert Mitchell, Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).

“’Dark Genesis: Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Becomings in a Monstrous World” in Sequencing the Body: Comics, Media, and Embodiment, co-edited by Robert Mitchell and Alex Rauch (in preparation for the In Vivo series at the University of Washington).

“The Poetics of Life: Luther Burbank, Horticultural Novelties, and the Space of
Heredity” accepted for publication in Literature and Medicine. In publication.

“Biofeedback and the Arts: Listening as Experimental Practice,” accepted for
publication in Leonardo: Journal of Arts, Science, and Technology. In
publication.

“The Material Poiesis of Information” co-authored with Robert E. Mitchell in Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).

“Bastard Birth: Middle Class Mores and the Rise of Genetic Rationality” in Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003).

"Harnessing Heredity in Gilded Age America: Middle Class Mores and Industrial Breeding in a Cultural Context", Journal of the History of Biology 2002 Spring; 35(1):43-78.

Research in Progress

The Acme Novelty Library: Bodies, Information, and the Political Economy of
Superhero Comics

The Extended Development Project: A Cultural History of Evolutionary and
Developmental Biology

 






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