DR. MICHAEL LEWIS
Director, Environmental Issues Program
Associate Professor of History
Salisbury University
1101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD, 21801
Telephone: 410-677-5020
E-mail: mllewis@salisbury.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. American Studies, concentration in Environmental History and 20th Century U.S. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. May 2000.
Certificate in Interdisciplinary Rhetoric of Inquiry
M. A. American Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
December 1993.
B. A. Biology, with a minor in American Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
May 1992.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
American Wilderness. Editor, and author of chapters, “American Wilderness,” and “Leopold’s Legacies: The Science of Conservation.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the U.S. Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1947-1997. . Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. (North American edition). Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the U.S. Biodiversity Ideal in India, 1945-1997. New Delhi: Orient Longman Press, 2003. (Asian and European edition).
Peer Reviewed Articles:
“Project Tiger and Conservation Biology: A case study in transnational science,” Journal of the History of Biology, 38, no. 2 (Summer, 2005): 185-207.
“Cattle and Conservation at Bharatpur: A Case Study in Science and Advocacy,” Conservation and Society 1, no. 1 (2003): 1-21.
“Stitching Together Meaning: Sarah Jane Kimball, Fancywork, Class and Consumption,” Annals of
Iowa 59 no. 2 (Spring, 2000): 141-164.
“From Science to Science Fiction: Leo Szilard and Fictional Persuasion,” in The Writing on the Cloud,
Allison Smith, ed., University Press of America, 1997.
Invited articles and essays:
“A Collaboration for all seasons: Sálim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley,” in Salim Ali: A Treasure, V.S. Vijayan, ed. Salim Ali Foundation: Coimbatore, India, 2007.
“A Call for Social Ecology: A Review Essay,” Economic and Political Weekly 41, no. 19 (December 9, 2006), 5052-53.
“Transformative Environmental History – The Future of the Field,” Environmental History 10, no. 1 (January 2005): 53-55.
Environmental History 9, no. 4 (October 2004): 604-619.
“Scientists or Spies? Ecology in a Climate of Cold War Suspicion,” Economic and Political Weekly 37, no. 24 (June 15, 2002): 2323-2332.
“Seeing the World Whole: An Interview with William Cronon,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 18
(1999): 1-10.
“Tiger Tourism,” with Paul Greenough. Student Travels Magazine, (Spring 1999): 27.
Book Reviews:
“Book Review: Smallholders and Stockbreeders: Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farmin in Southeast Asia,” Environmental History 11, no. 3 (July 2006), 632-33..
“Book Review: Health, Medicine, and Empire,” Modern Asian Studies 37, no. 2 (2003), 509-511.
“Book Review: Situating Social History,” Modern Asian Studies 37, no. 1 (2003), 255-256.
“Book Review: A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology, and Development,” Iowa
Journal of Cultural Studies 18 (1999): 119-121.
CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS
“Roundtable: Tradeoffs and Compromises (II): Environmental Historians in Environmental Studies Programs – Institutional Setting,” American Society for Environmental history Annual Conference, Boise, March 12-15, 2008.
“Roundtable: Teaching Urban History,” session chair, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 3, 2008.
“For the Birds: The Cold War and an Indo-US Ornithological Collaboration,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Alexandria, November 3, 2007.
“Roundtable: Collaborations between Environmental History and Conservation Biology: Tales of Two Societies?,” American Society for Environmental history Annual Conference, St. Paul, March 29-April 1, 2006.
“Roundtable: Using Rivers to Teach Integrated Environmental History,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, St. Paul, March 29-April 1, 2006.
“ ‘This Class will write a book’: An Experiment in Local Environmental History and Pedagogy,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Victoria, March 31-April 4, 2004.
“Roundtable: Knowledge, Nature, Power and States: From Landscapes to Genomes in South Asia,” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, March 4-7. 2004.
“Marking Their Territory: Neo-Imperialist Scientists, Nationalist Foresters, and Project Tiger,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, March 26-30, 2003.
“Ducks of Death? The Strange Tale of Bharatpur Bird-Banding and Biological Warfare,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 20-24, 2002.
“The Development of Indian Ecology and Conservation Policies: A Case Study for Transnational
Environmental History,” European Society for Environmental History Biannual Conference, St. Andrews University, Scotland, September 6-10, 2001.
“All Nature Great and Small: The SLOSS Debate in Indian Environmental Policy,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Durham, N.C., March 28-31, 2001.
“Commentary: Towards a National Vision of the Chesapeake Bay,” The Chesapeake Bay in the 21st Century Conference, Salisbury, MD, October 16-21, 2000.
“American Studies and the Future Abroad,” Mid-America American Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, April 7-8, 2000.
“Who Will Care For Baby Bertel?: Gender and Imperialism in the Philippines, 1917-1918,” Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry Conference on Justice and Caring, Iowa City, IA, January 30, 1999.
“Ecology as an American Export,” United States Educational Foundation, India, Mid-Year Conference, Fort Aguada, Goa, India, February 1-4, 1998.
“The Person behind the Passive Voice: reflections on the use of ethnography in the history of science,”
Mid-America American Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN, April 25-27, 1997.
“National(ist) Science in a Globalizing World,” Great Lakes American Studies Association, Bloomington, IN, February 10-11, 1997.
“The Rhetoric of Persuasion: Leo Szilard and Science Fiction,” America Confronts the Atomic Age Conference, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, OH, June 27-30, 1995.
“Commentary: Reading the Landscape,” American Studies Department Community Seminar, University of Alabama, January 26, 2008.
“Grasping a Tiger by the Tail: the Establishment of Project Tiger and the Politics of Conservation,” Environmental Policy Roundtable, University of Maryland-College Park, October 26, 2007.
“Globalization and Indian Conservation Science,” Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University, October 22, 2007.
"Conservation and Global Ecology," Undergraduate Seminar, University of Iowa, May 30-31, 2006.
“The Development of ‘Indian’ Ecology: Questioning the relevance of the Nation-State as Cultural Unit for 20th-Century Science,” Department of History and Sociology of Science Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, February 9, 2004.
“Our Man In Delhi: The Smithsonian Institution, Indira Gandhi, and Scientists as Policy
Advocates," South Asia Studies Seminar, Cornell University, May 5, 2003.
“Salim Ali, Dillon Ripley, and the Transnational Origins of Indian Ecology,” Industrial Environments Seminar Series, Rutgers University, March 11, 2003.
“Scientific Internationalism or Indian Nationalism? The Struggle for Control of Project
Tiger,” Southwest Colloquium, Arizona State University, February 21, 2003.
“Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley, and Indian Nationalism: The Political Limits of US-Indian Ecological Collaboration,” Smithsonian Institution Archives Research-in-Progress Seminar, Smithsonian Institution, January 16, 2003.
“The Environmental History of the Eastern Shore,” Eastern Shore Leadership Institute, Horn Point Research Center, May 23, 2002.
“Designing Indian Nature Reserves,” Public Goods and Public Bads in Nature: From Landscapes to Genomes in South Asia, Cornell University, February 22-23, 2002.
“Preserving India's Biological Heritage: Debates over Biosphere Reserves, Sacred Groves, and
Scientific Theory,” South Asian Studies Seminar, University of Iowa, March 4, 1999.