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Craig McConnell

Craig McConnell
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies

Email: cmcconnell@fullerton.edu
Office: H-223C
Phone: (657) 278-3935

Office Hours
-Spring 2011: M 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. ; W 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Courses Usually Taught

  • AMST 445 - Cold War and American Culture
  • HONR 304T - Honors Seminar: Science, Technology, and Society
  • LBST/HIST 302A and B Historical Dimension Liberal Studies (History of Science component)
  • LBST 304 Liberal Studies in the Sciences
  • LBST 491 Senior Seminar in Science and Literature

Research Interests and Publications

Research interests in science in literature and science in popular culture. I am finishing a study of cosmology from the 1950s to the 1970s in which I have shown that popular and religious discussions of cosmology had an impact on subsequent technical developments in the field.  I am starting a project on the public reaction to the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the ensuing interactions between the space race and the cold war.  

Resource Recommendations:

  • John Canaday, The Nuclear Muse (literary study)

  • Jessica Wang, American Science in an Age of Anxiety (history)

  • Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations (literature).

 

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