May 2002	Ph.D. - History (Modern United States, Public History, Comparative History). Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
	Certification in Scholarly Publishing earned May 2000. Preparing Future Faculty program graduate, May 1999.
August 1996	M.A. - History. University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.
Dec. 1981	M.A. - Management. Webster University. St. Louis, MO.
May 1977	B.A. - German, minor in English. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ.

Independent Historian, Gilbert, AZ. Self-employed.

July 2003 - present

Conducting oral history interviews on audiotape for acquisition by the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Collection at Texas Women's University, Denton, TX. I have been traveling throughout Arizona and southern California to gather the reminiscences of these women aviators from World War II, now in their early eighties. I am also independently working on two research projects. One is a history of German aerospace medicine from World War I through the present. This will include a close examination of their leading-edge work in aviation medicine during World War II, carried out in conjunction with their development of jet and rocket-powered aircraft and manned missiles. Some of this research put German aeromedicine on trial at Nuremberg. The second history is a study of the Rockfeller International Education Board fellowship program of the mid 1920s - early 1930s. Intended to promote peace through science, the IEB funded postdoctoral study overseas for hundreds of the world's most promising young scientific minds. the IEB focused on Europeans, believing that exposure to political freedom would prevent another World War One.

Summer 1997

American Fighter Aces Association, Champlin Fighter Museum at Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ. One of the three internships for ASU, this required writing copy for the newsletter and editing material for signage in the museum and for a book about American military aviators credited with five or more "kills."

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
            

Fall 2002 to present	Faculty Associate (adjunct): HST 313: American Cultural History to 1865, HST 109: U.S. to 1865 and HST 110: U.S. Since 1865
Aug., 1996 - May, 2000	Research Assistant for two professors in the history department and one in the Biology and Society Program in the College of Life Sciences

Freelance researcher/writer.

Nov., 1984-Aug., 1995

I specialized in science, technology, and global high-tech business, in particular American and foreign space programs. Assignments included feature articles, special sections, editorials & commentary, encyclopedia entries, reader surveys, software reviews, and travel writing.      Although these articles often had to explain the basic science and technology behind the topic, the focus was the social, cultural, and economic implications and issues. Audiences were the educated lay reader and the specialist reader looking for a not overly technical science/technology story or reference resource.      Topics varied widely, but included profiles of grassroots pro-space organizations; a proposal to mine the moon for Helium3 and use it to solve the world's energy problems; antimatter propulsion and its applications for medical imaging as well as interplanetary ravel; using plants for recycling aboard space stations; advanced space science research as inspiration for science-fiction writing; and a profile of a minority owner of a satellite manufacturing firm.      Clients included Ad Astra (National Space Society), Final Frontier, the St. Louis Science Center, Washington University, CompuServe Magazine (now AOL), Computer Magazine (Belgium), Illustreret Videnskab ("Science Illustrated" - Denmark), Gale Research, Grolier's Publishing, Cornhill Publishing (British aerospace trade publication), Hispanic Business, IBM Corporation, the National Audubon Society, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Gateway Engineer.

* Book author, Human Factors: Aerospace Medicine and the Origins of Manned Spaceflight in the United States, part of the Centennial of Flight Series at Texas A&M University Press. Publication is expected Spring 2005.

* Article author, "Oral History Interview: Tasillo Römisch," in Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly 7, no. 3 (Fall 1999), 48-55.

* Author/Presenter, "The Moon, Mars, and the Imagination: The Southwestern Landscape and the Visualization of Other Worlds," Western History Association annual meeting, October 2001, San Diego, CA.
     "Human Factors: Science, Technology, and Cold War Politics in the NASA Astronaut Selection Process," History of Science Society annual meeting, Pittsburgh PA, November 1999.
     "The Relationship of Gender in Juvenile Science Fiction and Adventure Series to the Astronaut Selection Process, 1958-63," Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meeting, San Diego CA, April 1999.
     "Educating Jane Q. Public: The American Print Media and the Concept of Women as Astronauts, 1957-1963," Seventh Annual Women in Aviation Conference, Minneapolis MN, March 1996.

* Reviewer, Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network 1957-1997, by Douglas J. Mudgway (Washington: NASA, 2001), Isis(94), Vol. 4, December 2003, 781-82.
     Taking Science to the Moon: Lunar Experiments and the Apollo Program, by Donald A. Beattie (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) in Isis (93), Vol. 4, December 2002, 752-53.
     Winning My Wings: A Woman Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, by Marion Stegeman Hodgson (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996) for Minerva, May 1998 (online).

*Commentator, panel on recent science, annual conference, National Council on Public History, Austin, TX, April 1998.

Aviation/Space Writers Association:

First place magazine features (SPACE), 1989, for "Digging in on the Moon," in Final Frontier, 1988: 32-36. This story described plans to build lunar colonies from indigenous regolith and structures and inflatables brought from Earth.

First place magazine features (SPACE), 1991, for "The Wrong Stuff," with Lillian Kozloski, in Final Frontier, July/August 1990: 20-23, 52-55. Written with a former NASM historian, this feature detailed the experiences of a group of women pilots in the late 1950s and early 1960s who participated in a study they hoped would allow them to be part of the Mercury astronaut corps.

Griffith Observatory/Hughes Aircraft space science writing award:

First place 1988, "Lifeboat! The Crew Emergency Rescue Vehicle (CERV)," in Griffith Observer, September 1988: 2-11. Traced the history of proposed methods for returning astronauts to Earth during an emergency.

First place 1990, "Gardens in Space: Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS)," in Griffith Observer, September 1990: 2-9. Finding sustainable biological methods of water and air purification for use in space.

* Rockefeller Archives, for research on their International Education Board fellowships of the early 20th century, Spring 2004.

* Chemical Heritage Foundation, for Rockefeller research, Summer 2003.

* American Institute of Physics, Center for the History of Physics, for Rockefeller project, Summer 2003.

* American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge grant for research related to history in the western hemisphere (American aeromedicine), Summer 1999.

* Max Millett Family Fund for research in Southwest history, specifically aeromedical studies in New Mexico and Texas, 1930s - 1950s, Summer 1999.

* Southwest Oral History Association equipment grant, 1998.

* Lilly Library, Indiana University, for research in the Shirley Thomas (space journalist) Collection, November 1998.

* Truman Presidential Library, travel grant to use James E. Webb Collection, August 1998.

* Johnson Presidential Library, Moody Travel Grant, for research on LBJ's senate and vice presidential roles in space history, April 1998.

* One of fifty U.S. writers invited by the Finnish trade consortium to that country as part of the 350th anniversary celebration of Finnish migration to the New World, August 1988. Visited government agencies, universities, research parks, and scientific sites. Also toured rocketry and satellite imaging facilities in Sweden; electronics and space research offices in Denmark. Resulting articles were published in Ad Astra and CompuServe Magazine and included an inside look at the Kiruna, Sweden international sounding rocket and balloon range and at the European SPOT satellite tracking facility.

German (B.A., two graduate courses, frequent reading and some correspondence in research)
Russian (two years college, one year noncredit, occasional research use)
Spanish (two years college, four years high school, two years junior high, travel in Mexico and Spain, occasional research use)
French (one semester college, occasional research use)
Romanian (one semester college)
        Based on my academic training, some self-study, and a good dictionary collection I have been able to read enough Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian for various research projects.

American Association for the History of Medicine
American Historical Association
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
German Studies Association
History of Science Society
National Association of Science Writers
National Council on Public History
Oral History Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for History in the Federal Government (Award Committee)
Society for the History of Technology (Albatrosses and WITH subgroups)
Society of Professional Journalists