Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
P: 207-859-4000
 
James R. Fleming
Sabbatical: 09/01/2013 - 08/31/2014
Professor and Director of STS
Science, Technology, and Society



Phone: 207-859-5881
Fax: 859-5846
Email:

Mailing Address:
5881 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8858
Education

B.S.Astronomy Pennsylvania State University 1971
M.S.Atmospheric ScienceColorado State University 1973
M.A.History of SciencePrinceton University 1984
Ph.D.History of SciencePrinceton University 1988
Areas of Expertise:
  • History of science, technology, and medicine
  • Science, technology, and society (STS)
  • Public policy of STM
  • Climate, meteorology, weather
  • Earth and space history
  • Editing and publishing

View Curriculum Vitae

Professional Information


Series Editor, Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006-07
AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship, 2006-07
Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2005-06
Founding President, International Commission on History of Meteorology meteohistory.org
Biosketch
Full c.v.
Amazon.com Author's Page

Current Research

The Emergence of Atmospheric Science
CO2: A Molecular Biography
The Comedic Genre in History of Science and Technology
History and Sense of Place in the Belgrade Lakes Region
Publications

Publications

Toxic Airs: Chemical snd Environmental Histories of the Atmosphere. Pittsburgh, forthcoming.
Osiris 26, Klima (2011).
Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Globalizing Polar Science. Palgrave, 2010.
"The Climate Engineers," Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2007). link