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Dan Bouk

Dan Bouk

Assistant Professor of History
History , 314 Alumni Hall
p 315 2286166
Professor Bouk is on leave for the 2012-2013 academic year. During his leave he is in Berlin serving as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Degree

 BS Michigan State University 2002; MA, PhD Princeton University 2006, 2009

Specialities

 Modern U.S. History (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
History of Science
Environmental History
History of Capitalism

Publications

D. Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered (manuscript in progress, under contract with University of Chicago Press)

D. Bouk, "Tocqueville's Ghost," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 42, no. 4 (2012): 329-339.

D. Bouk, "The Science of Difference: Designing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830-1930" Enterprise and Society 12, no. 4 (Dec. 2011): 717-731.

D. Bouk and D.G. Burnett, "Knowledge of Leviathan: Charles W. Morgan Anatomizes His Whale," Journal of the Early Republic 27(Fall 2008): 433-466.

D. Bouk, "Drought and Famine: What the Past Teaches Us to Fear Most about Global Climate Change,"(a review) The American Scholar (Spring 2008): 133-136.

Professional Experience

 Editor, Forum for the History of Science in America, 2009-

I write for and manage the Forum's blog at americanscience.blogspot.com.

Distinctions

 Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year, Colgate University, 2010-2011

Krooss Prize, Business History Conference, 2011

Best Dissertation Prize, Forum for the History of Human Sciences, 2010

Robert Hoffman Scholar, Princeton University, 2008

Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2008

Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2004, 2005, 2006

Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, 2004