Other Publications

"The American Association for the Advancement of Science," "The National Institute," and "Scientific Societies," in Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976).

"Reassessing Science in Ante-Bellum America," review essay in American Quarterly, 29 (Fall, 1977): 444-453.

Careers for Students of History, edited for the American Historical Association (1977).

"Anna Botsford Comstock" and "Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps" in American Women Writers (New York: Unger, 1979), I:389-391 and III:379-381.

"Winifred Goldring," in Notable American Women, 4 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980): 282-283.

"History and Women: The Profession Nourishes New Roots," The Cresset, 45 (December, 1981): 19-23.

"The Heritage of Victorian Scientists," in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 8 (September, l983): 188-190.

"Historical Resources in Natural History Museums," Forum for the History of Science in America: News and Views, 5 (Nov.-Dec., 1985): 5-6.

"The Phenomenon of Professions" and "Gender and the Professions" in Peter Marsh, ed., Contesting the Boundaries of Liberal and Professional Education (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988): 44-53 and 140-148.

"Nature Study Movement" and "Maria Mitchell," Women's History in the United States: A Handbook (Garland Publishing Co., 1990).

Biographical sketches of Emma Perry Carr, Lucretia Crocker, Mary Anna Palmer Draper, George Brown Goode, Maria Sanford, Henry A. Ward, and Newton Horace Winchell for American National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

"Historical Perspectives on Women in Science and Engineering," Proceedings of the 1992 CIC Conference on Women in Science and Engineering (Indiana University, 1992).

With Noel N. Schultz and Wendy C. C. Grebner, "A Proactive Approach to the Retention of Women Graduate Students," ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings (June 1994).

With Lynn Schmidke Lyng, "Recruiting and Retaining Women Graduate Students: Supporting Efforts on the Department Level," Women Engineering Program Advocates Network, Conference Proceedings (June, 1995).

"Reflections on Zoo History and Historiography" New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the 19th Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 3-7.

"Ask the Expert" on-line consultant on "Women in Science and Technology" for Encyclopedia Britannica (March-May, 1998); short answer, documented essays to screened questions as part of experimental project.

"Enhancing a History Course with Computer Assignments," with Eric Boyle and Mark Largent, Organization of American Historians Newsletter (April, 1998), pp. 1, 7-8.

"Preface," with Helen Longino, in Mary Lay, Laura Gurak, Clare Gravon, and Cynthia Myntti, Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, and Reproduction (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2000), pp. ix-xi.

"American Association for the Advancement of Science," "Museums of Science and Technology," "Smithsonian Institution," in Oxford Companion to United States History, ed. Paul S. Boyer (Oxford University Press, 2001).

"Missouri Botanical Garden" and "Cultural Institutions: Botanical Gardens, Natural History Museums, and Zoos" in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (forthcoming)

"Museums," History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, forthcoming).