I am a historian of sciences specializing in histories of ecology, environmental history, British imperial history, history of architecture and design, as well as global history.


Academic Positions

2009 -
Associate Professor, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study and The Environmental Studies Program, New York University.

2006 - 2009
Research Fellow, Forum for University History, University of Oslo.

2001 - 2006
Post. Doc., Center for Dev. and Environment, University of Oslo.

2000 - 2001
Lecturer, Department of History of Science, Harvard University.

1999 - 2000
Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo.

1999  (fall)
Lecturer, Faculty of Science, University of Oslo.

1998 (spring)
Head Tutor, Department of History of Science, Harvard University.

1993 - 1994
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo.

Visiting Positions and Fellowships

2002 - 2005                
Norwegian Research Council, Research Fellowship (Post Doc).

2002 - 2004                
Visiting Scholar, Historical Social Sciences, Columbia University.

2000                           
Norwegian Research Council, Research Fellowship.

1998 - 1999                
Dibner Institute Graduate Fellow, MIT.

1997 and 1999               
Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Summer Academy

1996                           
Bertram and Barbara Cohn Fellowship, Harvard University.

1995 - 1999                
Norwegian Research Council, Ph.D. Fellowship.

1995                           
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Program.


Education

Ph.D.   History of Science, Harvard University, 1999.

M.A.     History of Science, Harvard University, 1998.

M.A.     Philosophy, University of Oslo, 1993.

B.A.     Environmental Philosophy, University of Oslo, 1991.

Awards

New York State Council of the Arts Design Award (with Nina Edwards), 2003.

Forum for History of Human Science Prize, Dissertation Prize, 2000.

Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, 1997.

Peer- Review Service

British Journal for the History of Science

Ethics, Place and Environment

Isis

Israel Science Foundation

Journal of the History of Biology

MIT-Press

National Science Foundation (U.S.)

Norwegian Research Council

The Journal of Architecture

Technology and Culture

Universitetsforlaget

Worldviews