Richmond, Marsha L.
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
Professional Record
Date Prepared: 12/15/1997
Date Revised: 9/10/2007
Name: Marsha Leigh Richmond
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Faculty Appointment:
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Present Rank and Date:
Associate Professor, May 2000
WSU Appointment History:
Year Appointed: 1994, Assistant Professor
Year Promoted to Associate Professor: 2000
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Citizenship:
United States
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Education:
High School: Muskogee Central High School, Muskogee, OK, 1968
Baccalaureate: University of Oklahoma, 1972
Graduate: University of Oklahoma, M.A. Program, 1976
Indiana University-Bloomington, Ph.D., 1986
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Dissertation
"Richard Goldschmidt and Sex Determination: The Growth of German Genetics, 1910–1935," Indiana University, 1986. (University Microfilms International, #8707816).
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Appointments at Other Institutions:
Editor, Correspondence of Charles Darwin, American Council of Learned Societies, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England, 1987-1993
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Editorial Board Memberships:
U.S. Advisory Committee, Correspondence of Charles Darwin Project, Cambridge, England, 1994-present
Advisory Board, NTM. International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine (Basel: Birkhäuser), 1994-present
Advisory Board, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (London: Taylor & Francis), June 2003-present
Editorial Board Memberships (cont.):
Advisory Board, Journal of the History of Biology (Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer), April 2004-present
Advisory Board, Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology (Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie), June 2005-present
Advisory Board, Isis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2006-2008
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Professional Society Memberships:
History of Science Society
Member of HSS Council, 2006-2008; Program Chair for the annual meeting, 2007
British Society for the History of Science
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology; Program Chair for the biannual meeting, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009
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Honors/Awards:
Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, May 2006
Teaching Award, College of Lifelong Learning, May 1999
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Biographical Citations:
Who'sWho in America, Who'sWho in the Midwest, United Who’sWho, Who’sWho of American Women
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I. Teaching:
A. Years at Wayne State University: 12
B. Years at other colleges/universities: 0
C. Courses taught at Wayne State in last five years:
Undergraduate:
IST 1990: Women in Science, Medicine, and Engineering
IST 1990: From Silent Spring to Our Stolen Future
IST 2010: Health Concepts and Strategies
IST 2020: Changing Life on Earth
IST 2310: Living in the Environment
ISP 3260: Methods of Search and Critical Thinking
ISP 3360: American Medicine in the 20th Century
ISP 3360: Evolution and Its Critics
ISP 3040: Foundations of Knowledge: Critical Reasoning
ISP 3240: Foundations of Knowledge: Women in Medicine
Graduate:
ISP 6110: American Medicine in the Twentieth Century
ISP 7990: Period Studies: Darwin and the Victorians
ISP 7990: Individual Directed Study
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Master's Theses Directed:
George Dorset, “The American Workplace and the complexity encountered from multiple generations at work creating a new challenge of business diversity: does the sociology of generational differences affect performance, work ethics, and successful business practices?” Expected 2008.
Barbara Flis, “Implementing an AIDS Awareness Campaign in the Michigan Public Schools,” Expected 2008.
Sharon Boyd, “Efforts to Educate Vulnerable Populations About AIDS,” Expected 2008.
Shanita Williams, “African-American Women in Leadership Positions in Criminal Justice,” Expected 2008.
Jean Vortkamp, "For the Love of Elephants: Mahoutship and Elephant Conservation in Thailand," Winter 2006.
Kathleen Greene, “Network Theory in Vascular Laboratories,” Winter 2005.
Julia Carlsen, “Lung Cancer Screening: Why Is It Not Being Done?” Winter 2005.
Katrina L. Anderson, “White Coats and Black Folks: Exploring Discrimination in Physician-Patient Relationships,” Winter 2005.
Asimur Rahman, “Natural Selection Dictates The Pattern Of The Evolutionary Developmental Mechanism, As Seen With The Aid Of Computer Modeling,” Fall 2003.
Sheila Daley, “Cuban Health Care as a Model for Care and Access: Answers for the U.S. Health Care Dilemma?” Summer 2001.
Patty Paquin, "An Ethical Approach to Health Care: Is Society Meeting the Needs of the Poor?" Winter 2001.
Audry Landry, "Medical Technology and Biomedical Ethics in the Case of End of Life Decisions," Winter 1999.
Marcia Relyea, "Emotional Support for Patients Diagnosed with Chronic Conditions," Winter 1999.
Myrl Hornbrook, "The Ethics of Genetic Testing," Winter 1997.
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II. Research:
A. Research in progress:
The Making of a Heretic: Richard Goldschmidt, Sex Determination, and the Birth of Physiological Genetics, 1900-1935. Book manuscript in preparation.
Women in the Early History of Genetics, book project in collaboration with Ida Stamhuis (Vrije University, Amsterdam) and Elena Aronova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; University of California at San Diego). Book manuscript in preparation.
B. Funded research in the last five years:
“Women in the Early History of Genetics,” National Science Foundation, Scholars Award, SES-0620308, 2007-2008, $136,065.
“Women in the Early History of Genetics,” Alexander G. Bearn Library Resident Fellowship, 2003-2004, American Philosophical Society Library, $2,000; Munusculum Program, WSU Humanities Center, $300.
“Women in the Early History of Genetics,” University Research Grant, Wayne State University, Summer 2003, $7,000.
“Richard Goldschmidt and Sex Determination,” University Research Grant, Wayne State University, Summer 2002, $5,000.
"The Newnham College Geneticists: William Bateson's Cambridge School of Genetics, 1900-1910," Wayne State University Provost's Office, $1,000; Office of Research and Sponsored Program Services, Small Research Grant, September 1999, $1,000.
Richard Goldschmidt and the Birth of Physiological Genetics, 1900-1935, Summer Research Grant, University Research Grant Program, Wayne State University, Summer 1999, $5,625.
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III. Publications
A. Editorships of books
Marsha L. Richmond and Thomas Junker, eds. Charles Darwin's Correspondence with German Naturalists. A Calendar with Summaries, Biographical Register and Bibliographical Appendix. Marburg an der Lahn: Basilisken-Presse, 1996.
Marsha L. Richmond, Janet Browne, Anne Secord, Frederick Burkhardt, Duncan Porter, and Sydney Smith, eds. The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vols. 3-9 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988-1994).
Supervising Editor for Zoology, Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, London and Chicago: Thoemmes Press/University of Chicago Press, 2004.
B. Chapters published
“The Cell as the Basis for Heredity, Development, and Evolution: Richard Goldschmidt’s Program of Physiological Genetics,” in From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Evolutionary Development, ed. Jane Maienschein and Manfred D. Laubichler (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007).
“Darwin’s Study of the Cirripedes,” introduction to Charles Darwin, Monographs on the Cirripedia (1851, 1854), in The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, Dr. John van Wyhe, Director, http://Darwin-online.org.uk. January 2007.
"`A Lab of One's Own': The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914," rpt. in Gendered Spaces in the Physical Sciences: History and Architecture of the Laboratory, ed. Maria Rentetzi (Heraklion, Greece: Crete University Press-Foundation for Research and Technology, 2006).
"`A Lab of One's Own': The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914," rpt. in History of Women in the Sciences: An Isis Reader, ed. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
"Darwin's Study of the Cirripedia," in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4 (1989), Appendix II, pp. 388-409.
D. Chapters in press
"`A Lab of One's Own': The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914," Isis, 88 (1997): 422-455. To be reprinted in Gendered Spaces in the Physical Sciences: History and Architecture of the Laboratory, ed. Maria Rentetzi (Athens: Crete University Press / Foundation for Research and Technology, expected 2007).
“William Bateson’s Pre-Mendelian Research Program in `Heredity and Development,’” in A Cultural History of Heredity IV: Heredity in the Century of the Gene. Eds. Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science online preprint series).
E. Journal articles published
“The `Domestication’ of Heredity: The Familial Organization of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895-1910,” Journal of the History of Biology, 39 (2006): 565-605.
“The Darwin Celebration of 1909: Re-evaluating Evolution in the Light of Mendel, Mutation, and Meiosis,” Isis, 97 (2006): 447-484.
“Richard Goldschmidt and the Crossing-Over Controversy,” co-authored with Michael R. Dietrich, Genetics, 161 (June 2002): 477-482.
“Thomas Henry Huxley’s Developmental View of the Cell,” Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 3 (January 2002): 61-65.
“British Cell Theory on the Eve of Genetics,” Endeavour: A Quarterly Magazine for the History and Philosophy of Science, 25, #2 (2001): 55-59.
“Women in the Early History of Genetics: William Bateson and the Newnham College Mendelians, 1900-1910,” Isis, 92 (2001): 55-90.
"T. H. Huxley's Criticism of German Cell Theory: An Epigenetic and Physiological Interpretation of Cell Structure," Journal of the History of Biology, 33 (2000): 247-289.
"`A Lab of One's Own': The Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women at Cambridge University, 1884-1914," Isis, 88 (1997): 422-455.
___ and Janet Browne, "The Darwin Archive in Cambridge: Two Centuries of Family History," Darwin College Magazine (Winter 1992), 64-69.
"Protozoa as Precursors of Metazoa: German Cell Theory and its Critics at the Turn of the Century," Journal of the History of Biology, 22 (1989): 223-246.
F. Journal Articles in Press
“Muriel Wheldale Onslow and Early Biochemical Genetics,” to appear in the Journal of the History of Biology, 40, 3 (September 2007).
“Opportunities for Women in Early Genetics,” Nature Review Genetics, in press.
G. Journal Articles Submitted
“William Bateson’s Pre- and Post-Mendelian Research Program in Heredity and Development,” to be submitted to British Journal for the History of Science, September 2007.
H. Biographical Articles / Newsletter Articles published
"Adam Sedgwick (1854-1913)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Women in the Early History of Genetics,” Mendel Newsletter, n.s. 12 (February 2004), ed. Michael Dietrich. http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mendel/
“Marion Greenwood Bidder,” and “Rachel Alcock,” in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists, London and Chicago: Thoemmes Press/University of Chicago Press, 2004.
"Richard Benedict Goldschmidt," American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 9, pp. 204-206.
I. Book reviews published
Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey, by Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 37 (September 2006), 175-176.
An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace, by Martin Fichman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), University of Toronto Quarterly, 75:1 (Winter 2006), 307-309.
Darwinian Heresies, ed. by Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, and Michael Ruse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Journal of the History of Biology 38 (2005): 631-633.
Die Sexualitätstheorie und “Theoretische Biologie” von Max Hartmann in der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, by Heng-an Chen (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003), Isis 96 (2005): 126.
Monistische und antimonistische Weltanschauung: Eine Auswahlbibliographie, by Heiko Weber (Berlin: VWB-Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2000), Isis 95 (2004):740-741.
Charles Darwin's "The Life of Erasmus Darwin," edited by Desmond King-Hele (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Charles Darwin's "Beagle" Diary, edited by Richard Darwin Keynes (new ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), reviewed in Journal of the History of Biology 36 (2003): 428-429.
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, by Janet Brown (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002); Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History’s Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough, by Rebecca Stott (London: Faber and Faber, 2003); and Fossils, Finches and Fuegians: Charles Darwin’s Adventures and Discoveries on the Beagle, 1832-1836, by Richard Keynes (London: HarperCollins, 2002), reviewed under the title “It Really is a Small World,” in The Times Higher Supplement (13 June 2003).
Cambridge Scientific Minds, edited by Peter Harman and Simon Mitton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Isis, 94 (2003): 124-125.
Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert. Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit 1848-1914 (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1998), by Andreas W. Daum, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 24 (2002).
Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation, by James E. Strick, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001), Journal of the History of Biology, 35, (2002), 173-175.
Commemorative Practices in Science: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Collective Memory, ed. By Pnina Abir-Am and Clark A. Elliott. Vol. 14 of Osiris (University of Chicago Press, 2000), British Journal for the History of Science, 34, 4 (2001), 454-455.
Der Rücktritt Richard Willstätters 1924-1925 und seine Hintergründe: Ein Münchener Universitätsskandal?, by Freddy Litten (Munich: Munich University, 1999), Isis, 92, 3 (2001), 623-624.
Charles Darwin’s Zoology Notes & Specimen Lists from H.M.S. Beagle, edited by Richard Keynes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), British Journal for the History of Science, 34, 1 (2001), 112-113.
The Birth of the Cell, by Henry Harris (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), Journal of the History of Biology, 32, 3 (1999), 570-573.
Familientreffen versus Professionselite? Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Neustrukturierung in der deutschen Wissenschaftsgeschichte der 60er Jahre, by Anke Jobmann (Berlin: ERS Verlag, 1998), Isis, 90, 4 (1999), 855-856.
Die Rezeption von Evolutionstheorien im 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Eve-Marie Engels (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995); and Lightbinders Darwin CD-ROM, 2nd ed., edited by Pete Goldie and Michael T. Ghiselin (San Francisco: Lightbinders, Inc., 1997), reviewed in Journal of the History of Biology 32, 2 (1999), 225-229.
Geschichte der Biologie. Band 3: 17. und 18. Jahrhundert, by Änne Bäumer (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996), reviewed in Journal of the History of Biology 31 (1998), 447-449.
Styles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933, by Jonathan Harwood (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), reviewed in Isis 87 (1996), 748-749.
Studia Fribergensia: Alexander-von-Humboldt Kolloquium, Freiberg 1991 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994); Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, edited by Hans-Joachim Felber (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1994), reviewed in Isis 86 (1995), 662-663.
Men among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory, by A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), reviewed in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (7 July 1994).
Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology, by John A. Moore (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), reviewed in The Times Higher Education Supplement (1 July 1994).