Bernard Lightman | Department of Humanities | Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL

Name:	Bernard Vise Lightman
Place of Birth:	Toronto, Canada
Date of Birth:	April 30, 1950
Citizenship:	Canadian
Office Address:	Division of Humanities, 309 Bethune College, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J lP3
Office Telephone:	(416) 736-5164 Ext. 22028
E-mail Address:	lightman@yorku.ca

DEGREES

Brandeis University: Ph.D. in History of Ideas, 1979.
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Henry Longueville Mansel and the Origins of Agnosticism.” (499 pages)

York University: M.A. in History, 1974

York University: Honours B.A. (First Class) in History, 1973

CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Humanities, York University, 1994 to present

Director, Toronto Node, SSHRC Cluster Grant, Situating Science: Cluster for the Humanist and Social Studies of Science (September 2007 - .) (See: http://www.situsci.ca/)

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, Elected 2011.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1975 Teaching Assistant (Winter term), Brandeis University, Philosophy and History of Ideas Department

1977-1979 Part-time Faculty, York University, Division of Humanities

1978-1979 Part-time Faculty, University of Toronto, History Dept.

1979-1981 Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, History Dept.

1981-1983 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, History Dept.

1983-1987 Assistant Professor of History (fixed term appointment), Honors College, University of Oregon

1987-1989 Assistant Professor of Humanities, York University

1989-1994 Associate Professor of Humanities, York University

1993-1997 Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts, York University

SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESEARCH GRANTS

a	Brandeis University: tuition scholarship, 1974-75
b	Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1975-76, 1976-77, fall of 1977
c	Canadian Federation for the Humanities: Aid to Publications Programme publication subvention for the manuscript "The Origins of Agnosticism," April, 1981
d	SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1981-82, 1982-83
e	York University Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning Development Grant, February, 1990
f	SSHRC Travel and Small Grants Award for "Astronomy for the People: Richard Anthony Proctor and the Popularization of the Victorian Universe," 1991. (Award: $1,407.00)
g	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for "Astronomy for the People: Richard Anthony Proctor and the Popularization of the Victorian Universe," 1991. (Award: $1,357.00)
h	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for "Sisters in Science" and "The Politics of Scientific Naturalism," 1992. (Award: $1,297.00)
i	SSHRC Research Grant Award for "Constellations of Meaning: Religion, Gender, and Ideology in Late-Victorian Astronomy," 1993. (Grant Period: April 1, 1993 to March 30, 1996. Award: $12,200.)
j	Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences Award for Conference on "Science and Religion in Modern Western Thought," 1993-1994. (Award: $4,525.00)
k	Aid to Occasional Scholarly Conferences Award for Conference on "Contexts of Victorian Science," 1995-1996. (Award: $7,500)
l	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for "Popularizers of Victorian Science," 1997. (Award: $2,918.00)
m	Leave Development Fellowship, York University, for 1997-8 (Full course release for one academic year)
n	Templeton Science-Religion Course Program Award, 1998. (Award: $5,000 for institution and $5,000 for instructor)
o	Sabbatical Leave Fellowship Fund for "Voices of Nature: Popularizers of Victorian Science," 1998. (Award: $1,967)
p	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Travel and Small Grants Sub-Committee for "Voices of Nature: Popularizers of Victorian Science," 1998. (Award: $2,200)
q	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for "Popularizing Victorian Science," Spring 1999. (Award: $4,000)
r	SSHRC Research Grant award for "Popularizers of Science," 2000. (Grant Period: April 2000 to March 2003. Award: $16,770.00)
s	Faculty of Arts Fellowship, awarded in December 1999. Taken during the academic year 2001-2002. (Entitles winner to one year release from teaching.)
t	University Merit Award, 2001. ($2000)
u	York Seminar for Advanced Research for 2001-2002, Gerstein Foundation, for "Figural Vocabularies of Gender in Science, Medicine, and Technology," co-proposed with Ann Shteir. (Award: $7,500)
v	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for "Biographical Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Scientists," Fall 2001. (Award: $3,989.00)
w	University Merit Award, 2002. ($2,500)
x	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Grants Sub-Committee for "Dictionary of 19th Century British Scientists," 2002. (Award: $3,500)
y	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for a biography of John Tyndall, Fall 2003. (Award: $4,000)
z	University Merit Award, 2003. ($2,000)
aa	Co-Investigator, SSHRC Strategic Research Clusters Design Grants, "Science and Technology Studies/History and Philosophy of Science," Fall 2004. (Award: $17,000)
bb	University Merit Award, 2004. ($3,000)
cc	Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Program, Three year grant 2005-2008 for Isis. (Award: $24,456)
dd	Co-Investigator, SSHRC Strategic Research Clusters Grant "Science And Technology Studies/History and Philosophy of Science," Fall 2005. (Award: $25,000)
ee	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant for "John Tyndall: The Man of Science in Context," 2006. (Grant Period: April 2006 to March 2009. Award: $109,000.00)
ff	University Merit Award, 2006. ($2,000)
gg	Faculty of Arts Research Grant for "The Victorian Popularizers of Science," Spring 2006. (Award $2,056.30)
hh	University Merit Award, 2007. ($2,000)
ii	Co-Applicant, SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant for "Clustering the Humanist and Social Studies of Science in Canada," Spring 2007. (Award: 2.1 million)
jj	Mellon Foundation Grant to Publish the Correspondence of John Tyndall, Spring 2008. (Five year award: $306,000)
kk	University Merit Award, 2008. ($3,000)
ll	Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant, for John Tyndall and Nineteenth-Century Science, September 2009. (Three year award: $580,000)
mm	University Merit Award, 2009. ($2,000)
nn	SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada, Workshop on "Revisiting Evolutionary Naturalism: New Perspectives on Victorian Science and Culture," June 2010 ($23,000).
oo	University Merit Award, 2010. ($2,000)
pp	University Merit Award, 2011. ($3,000)
qq	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Development Grant for “The Collected Letters of John Tyndall,” 2012. (Grant Period: April 2012 to March 2015. Award: $199,828)
rr	University Merit Award, 2012. ($3,000)
ss	Co-Principal Investigator, Templeton Religion Trust Grant for “Clash Narratives in Context: Uncovering the Social and Cultural Drivers of Contemporary Science vs. Religion Debates,” 2014. (Grant Period: October 2014 to September 2017. Award: £1,915,968)
tt	Co-Applicant, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for “Cosmopolitanism and the Local in Science and Nature: Creating an East/West Partnership,” 2014. (Grant Period: April 2014 to March 2017. Award: $200,000)

HONOURS AND AWARDS

a	Dean's Award for Outstanding Research, 2007-8
b	Elected Corresponding Member of the International Academy of the History of Science, January 2011.
c	Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Spring 2011
d	Joseph H. Hazen Lecture, May 2014, History of Science Society honorary lecture in conjunction with the New York Academy of Sciences.

TEACHING

Areas of Professional Specialization

European Intellectual History
Nineteenth-Century British History
History of Modern Science

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisions--Completed

James Elwick, Ph.D. University of Toronto (SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship), 2004-2006.

Melinda Baldwin, Ph.D. Princeton University (SSHRC Cluster Grant Post-Doctoral Fellowship), 2012-2012.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervisions--In Progress

Efrem Sera-Shriar, Ph.D. Leeds University (SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship), 2012-2014.

Graduate Thesis Supervision - Completed

Aditi Gowri, M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, 1991. Supervisor for thesis “The Social Construction of Symbolical Algebra in England of the 1830’s.”

Carlos Jacques, Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1992. Examiner of thesis “Broken Dreams: Reflections on Reason, Knowledge and Power.”

Mark Meisner, Masters in Environmental Studies, 1992. Examiner of thesis “Language and Nature: A Consideration of Words and Worlds.”

Doris Audet, Ph.D. in Biology, 1992. Outside Examiner of thesis “Roost Quality, Foraging and Young Production in the Mouse-Eared Bat, Myotis Myotis: A Test of the ESS Model of Group Size Selection.”

John Taylor, M.Sc. in Biology, 1994. Outside Examiner of thesis “A Phylogenetic Approach to the Evolution of Social Behaviour, Nest Architecture, and Biogeography of ‘Evylaeus.’”

Heiderose Butscher, M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, 1994. Graduate Thesis committee and supervisor for thesis “Lou Andreas Salome as Prism: The Refraction of Self and the Dynamics of Creative Genius in Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud.”

Peter Fruchter, M.A. in Philosophy, November 1994. Outside Examiner for thesis “Scientific Explanation and the Deductive-Nomological Model: Historical Perspective, the Modern View and a Defence.”

Daphne Mary Syme, M.Sci. in Biology, Jan. 1995. Outside Examiner for thesis on “The Effects of Variation in Temperature and Precipitation on Reproduction, Diet and Population Size of Myotis Lucifugus.”

Leah Balfe, M.F.A., April 1995. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Fabrications.”

Christine Hubbard, M.Sc. in Biology, June 1995. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Responses of Sheep to Variation in Endophyte Infection of Festuca rubra.”

Peter Sinnema, Ph.D. in English, July 1995. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Dynamics of the Pictured Page: Representing the Nation in the Illustrated London News, 1842-1852.”

Paul Friesen, Ph.D. in Theology, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, Nov. 1995. Examining Committee for thesis on “The Man Behind the Prophet: The Making of John Ludlow and the Fortunes of Christian Socialism in England, 1821-1856.”

Michael Maynard, Graduate Program in Fine Arts, Dept. of Visual Arts, April 1996. Dean’s Representative for thesis on “Lake Superior: A Personal Perspective.”

Diane Neudorf, Ph.D. in Biology, June 1996. Outside Examiner for thesis on “A Dual System of Female Control of Extra Pair Copulations in the Hooded Warbler.”

Rob Pierson, Ph.D. in Philosophy, January 1997. Dean’s Representative for thesis on “On Perceiving God: An Epistemology of Religious Experience.”

Avron Kulak, Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought, January 1997. Member of Dissertation Committee and Examiner for thesis on “Origin and Critique: Reading Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals.”

Peter Palermo, Master of Fine Arts, April 1997. Dean’s Representative for thesis on “A Walk in the Woods: An Exploration of Identity through Memory.”

Suzanne Sheffield, Ph.D. in History, June 1997. Dissertation Supervisor for thesis on “Beyond the Mask of Gender: Three Victorian Scientist-Naturalists.”

Christina Ann Banman, Ph.D. in History, University of Toronto, July 1997. External Examiner for thesis on “The Society of Antiquaries, 1830-1870: Institution, Intellectual Questions, Community, and the Search for the Past.”

Richard England, Ph.D. in History of Science, University of Toronto, September 1997. External Examiner for thesis on “Aubrey Moore and the Anglo-Catholic Assimilation of Science in Oxford.”

Christina Garofano, M.A. in Psychology, York University, September 1997. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Epistemological Misunderstandings in the Repressed Memory Controversy.”

Geoffrey Bunn, Ph.D. in Psychology, York University, January 1998. Outside Examiner for thesis on “The Hazards of the Will to Truth: A History of the Lie Detector.”

Joanna Beyers, Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, York University, August, 1998. Dean’s Representative for thesis on “The Forest Unbundled: Canada’s National Forest Strategy and Model Forest Program 1992-7.”

Mary Hora, Ph.D. in History, University of Toronto, June, 1999. External Examiner for thesis on “Robert Vaughan.”

Daniel Riskin, M.Sc. in Biology, York University, September, 2000. Outside Examiner for thesis on “A Behavioural Investigation of the Sticking Mechanisms and Non-Aerial Locomotion of Spix’s Disk-Winged Bat, Throptera Tricolor.”

Elisabeth Abergel. Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, York University, November, 2000. Dean’s Representative for thesis on “Growing Uncertainty: The Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Engineered Herbicide Tolerant Canola in Canada.”

Alexandra Rutherford. Ph.D. in Psychology, York University, January, 2001. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Between the Science of Behavior and the Art of Living: B. F. Skinner and Psychology’s Public in Mid-Twentieth Century America.”

John Ratcliffe, M.Sc. in Biology, York University, June, 2001. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Taste Aversion Learning in 4 Species of Microchiropteran Bat.”

Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins, Ph.D. in History, York University, August, 2001. Dissertation Supervisor for thesis on “Common Knowledge: The Victorian Working Class and the Low Road to Science, 1870-1900.”

Leesa K. Fawcett, Ph.D. in Biology, York University, January, 2002. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Biological Conservation of Common and Familiar Animals: The Roles of Experience, Age, and Gender in Children’s Attitudes Towards Bats, Frogs, and Racoons.”

Hannah ter Hofstede, M.Sc. in Biology, York University, March, 2003. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Behavioural Defence Against Ectoparasites in Bats: Habitat Selection and Grooming Behaviour in Relation to Batfly and Mite Abundance.”

Rafael Avila-Flores, M..Sc. in Biology, York University, June, 2003. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Habitat Use by Foraging Insectivorous Bats in a Large Urban Mosaic.”

Merryn McIninch, M..Sc. in Biology, York University, June, 2003. Outside Examiner for thesis on “Reproductive Hormones and Behaviour in the Indian (Rhinoceros unicornis) and Sumatran (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) rhinoceros.”

James Elwick, Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto, September 2004. Voting member of committee for thesis on "Compound Individuality in Victorian Biology, 1830-1872."

Donald Opitz, Ph.D. in History of Science, University of Minnesota, December 2004. External Examiner for thesis on "Aristocrats and Professionals: Country-House Science in Late-Victorian Britain."

Elizabeth Rumiel, Ph.D. in History, York University, July 2009. Dean’s Representative for thesis “Random Murder by Technology: The Role of Scientific and Biomedical Experts in the Anti-Nuclear Movement, 1969-1992.”

Jacy L. Young, M.A. in Psychology, York University, December 2009. Outside Member for thesis "Evolution, Education, and Eugenics: Organic Selection in Progressive Era America."

Michal Meyer, Ph.D. in History, University of Florida, March 2010. Member of Thesis Committee for thesis titled “Speaking for Nature: Mary Somerville and the Science of Empire.”

Melinda Baldwin, Ph.D. in History, Princeton University, August 2010. External Examiner for thesis “Nature and the Making of a Scientific Community, 1869-1939.”

James Clifford, Ph.D. in History, York University, January 2011. Member of Committee for thesis “A Wetland Suburb on the Edge of London: A Social and Environmental History of West Ham and the River Lea, 1865-1914.”

Adam Lee Nicol, Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, December 2010. External Examiner for thesis “The Romance of Natural History: The Imaginative Project of Philip Henry Gosse.”

John Morden, M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University, March 2011. Member of Committee for thesis “Peerless Prodigies of Physical Phenomena: Monsters Through Evolutionary Science, Photography and Society.”

Sonja Pushchak, M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, York University, March 2011. Member of Committee for thesis “Suffering for Science: The Ecstasy of Misery in the Victorian Era.”

Viola Cleo Bradshaw, Ph.D. in Philosophy, York University, July 2011. Outside Member for thesis “Soul-Shaping: Spatial Metaphors in the Development of Subjectivity in Plato.”

Connie Crompton, Ph.D. in Communications and Culture, York University, October 2011. Member of Committee for thesis “Making the Modern Man: Eugen Sandow and Muscled Masculinity.”

Jean Koo, Ph.D. in Humanities, York University, April 2013. Member of Committee for thesis “Mary Somerville and Margaret Huggins: A Collaborative Voice at the Embryonic Stages of Nineteenth Century Astronomical Specializations.”

Joshua Nall, Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, November 2013. External Examiner for thesis “News from mars: Transatlantic Mass Media and the Practice of New Astronomy, 1870-1910.”

Ryan Higgitt, Ph.D. in Sociology, Queen’s University, January 2014. External Examiner for thesis “The Missing Link as Governmentality: A Genealogy of Paleoanthropology.”

Mohammed Khimji, Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought, York University, March 24th, 2014. Member of Committee for thesis “Thinking the End in Itself: A Critical Study of First Principles in Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and Kant.”

Graduate Thesis Supervision - In Progress

Kristen Hardy, Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought, York University. Supervisor.

Neil George, Ph.D. in Humanities, York University. Supervisor.

Khyati Nagar, Ph.D. in Humanities York University, Supervisor.

Sonja Pushchak, Ph.D. in Humanities, York University. Supervisor.

John Morden, Ph.D. in Humanities, York University. Supervisor.

Undergraduate Courses Taught

At York University

Natural Science 3710.06/Humanities 3910.06 The Intellectual and Social Impact of Modern Science (1987-8)

Humanities 1180.06 The Modern Mind (1987-8)

Humanities 1500E.06 Science and the Humanities (1988, 1988-9, 1989-90)

AK/Humanities 3930.06 Nineteenth-Century Thought and Literature (Summer, 1988)

Humanities 2500J.06 Modern Science, Culture, and Society (1988-9, 1989-90)

AK/History 3000G.06 Intellectual History of Modern Europe (Summer, 1989)

AK/Humanities 3720.06 Twentieth Century Thought and Literature (Summer, 1989)

Humanities 3500H.06 Science and Religion in Modern Western Thought (1989-90, 1999-2000)

AK/Humanities 1720.06 The Roots of Western Culture: The Modern Period (CA. 1500-1900) (Summer, 1990)

Humanities 2500L.06 Darwin, Einstein and the Humanities (1991-2, 1992-3)

Humanities 3140.03 Sociobiology and Human Culture (1992)

Humanities 3500M.06 Science and Gender in Modern Western Culture (1992-3)

Humanities 1905 9.0A Dangerous Visions, Brave New Worlds: The SF Culture and Our Scientific Age (1999-2000)

History 4100A 6.0 Church and Society in Victorian England (Summer 2000)

Humanities 2915 9.0 Darwin, Einstein, and the Humanities (2002-3, 2006-7, 2007-2008, 2009-2010)

Humanities 3975 3.00: Science and Religion in Modern Western Culture (S1 term in 2011, Winter term 2014)

Humanities 1910 9.0: Science and the Humanities (2013-2014)

At the University of Oregon

Honors College 407 Senior Seminar (Honors Thesis)

Honors College 407 Sophomore/Junior Seminar: The Idea of Interpretation in Modern European Thought

Humanities, Arts and Letters 212 Science and Religion in Victorian England

History 399 The Darwinian Revolution

History 399 Science and the Victorian Crisis of Faith

Honors College 213 Nineteenth-Century European Thought

History 399 Science and Society

Honors College History 107 The Ancient and Medieval Ages

Honors College History 108 From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Honors College History 109 From the French Revolution to World War II

At Queen's University

History 121 The Intellectual Origins of the Contemporary World

History 237 Modern European Thought

Graduate Courses Taught (York Univeristy)

History/English 6900.06 Victorian Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar: Victorian Knowledge, Belief and the Rhetoric of Authority (1991-2)

History 6001.06 Directed Readings: Modern Western Science in its Social and Intellectual Context (1991-2)

History 5830.06 Contexts of Victorian Science (1992-3, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2013-2014)

STS 6301 3.0 Science and Print Culture (Winter 2013)

SERVICE

Vanier College Fellow, July 1987-2001

Victorian Studies Option Sub-Committee, March 1988-September 1988

Curriculum Committee, Humanities Division, September 1988-June 1990.

Victorian Studies Option Steering Committee, September 1988-June1992.

Network Advisor, Faculty of Arts Advising Network, September 1988-June 1990, September 1991-June 1992.

Vanier College Executive Committee, January 1989-June 1990.

Ad Hoc Committee on Colloquia and Conferences, Humanities Division, May 1989-June 1990.

Faculty of Arts Council, Humanities Representative, September 1989-June 1990.

Social Affairs Committee, Humanities Division, September 1989-June 1990.

Tenure and Promotion Sub-Committee on Teaching, September 1989-June 1990.

Vanier Space Committee, November 1989-March 1990.

Committee to propose new program in Science, Culture and Society, October 1990-June 1991.

Graduate History Executive Committee, September 1991-June 1993.

Organizing Committee for Bethune/Vanier Science Symposium, 1991-1997.

Executive Committee, Council of the Faculty of Arts, September 1992-June 1997.

Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program, History Selection Panel, 1992.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 1992-1993, “Disenfranchised Science”

Executive Committee, Humanities Division, September 1992-June 1993, September 1999-June 2000.

Recruitment Committee, Humanities Division, September 1992-June 1993.

Admissions Committee, Faculty of Graduate Studies, September 1992-June 1993.

Bethune College Fellow, September 1992-.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 1993-1994, “The New Genetics: Shaping Our Future.”

Committee on Research, Grants and Scholarships, Faculty of Arts, September 1993-June 1997.

Chair, Executive Committee, Council of the Faculty of Arts, September 1993-June 1996.

Search Committee, Bethune College Master, September 1993-April 1994.

Nominating Committee, Faculty of Arts, September 1993-June 1995.

Administration Negotiation Team, CUEW Contract, September 1993-June 1994, June 1996-November 1996.

Committee on International Exchanges, Linkages, and Development Agreements, Sept. 1993-June 1994.

Faculty of Arts Council Representative to Senate, October 1993-June 1997, September 1999-June 2001.

Dispute Resolution Committee, October 1993-June 1997.

Associate Dean of Arts, 1993-1997.

Faculty of Arts Essay Prize Committee, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 1994-1995, “Science and the Public Trust: A Partnership at Risk?”

Tenure and Promotion Committee, Faculty of Arts, September 1994-June 1997.

Budget Planning Committee, Sub-Committee on Academic Labour Relations, Jan. 1994-June 1997.

York/Seneca Rehabilitation Services Program Advisory Committee, June 1994-June 1997.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 1995-1996, “Knowledge in the Age of Information”

Work Process Review Committee on CUPE Hiring Process, May 1995-Nov. 1995

Joint Committee on the Administration of the YUFA Collective Agreement, September 1995-June 1997.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 1996-1997, “Investigating the Cultural Authority of Science”

Co-Chair, Joint Faculty of Arts/Faculty of Pure and Applied Science Ad Hoc Committee on Science-Arts Initiatives, 1997-2001.

Academic Planning and Policy Committee, Faculty of Graduate Studies, August 1999-June 2000, February 2004-June 2004.

Executive Committee, Center for Jewish Studies, September 1999-June, 2001; September 2002-June 2004.

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Diplomas in Jewish Studies, September, 1999-January 2001.

Chair, Bethune College/Science, Technology, Culture and Society Seminar Series for 1999-2000, “Apocalypse Now? Dark Visions in Science at the End of the Millennium.”

Chair, Graduate Humanities Program Proposal Committee, April, 2000-2003.

Natural Science Review Committee, Faculty of Arts Representative, April, 2000-June 2001.

Acting Director, Academic Staff Relations, July, 2000-Jan. 2001.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 2000-2001, “The Second X: Women in Contemporary Science.”

Coordinator, Programme in Science, Technology, Culture and Society, July 1991-June 1994, July 2000-June 2001.

Chair, Bethune College/Science and Society Seminar Series for 2001-2002, “The Quest for Contact: In Search of Extraterrestrial Life.”

Faculty of Graduate Studies Representative to Senate, July 1, 2002-June 30, 2004.

Advisory Committee, Division of Natural Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, September 2002-May 2003.

Director, Graduate Humanities Program, 2003-2007.

York University Steering Committee, SSHRC Transformation Consultation Process, February 2004-May 2004.

Member, ad hoc committee to propose a new undergraduate Science and Technology Studies program, Spring 2005-Spring 2006.

Member, Search Committee to select a new Dean of Science and Engineering, February - June 2006.

Member, CUPE Research Leave Award Selection Committee, June 2006, July 2007, May 2008.

Member, Executive Committee, Science and Technology Studies Program, September 2006- .

Member, Research Grants and Scholarship Committee, Faculty of Arts, September 1, 2007-June 30, 2009.

File Preparation Committee and Adjudication Committee, Division of Natural Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, 2007-2008.

Chair, ad hoc committee to propose a new graduate Science and Technology Studies program, Spring 2007-Spring 2008.

Director, Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, July 2008-June 2010.

Member, Recruitment Committee, Division of Humanities, 2008-2009.

Member, York University Faculty Association Grievance Sub-Committee, 2009-2010

Chief Steward, York University Faculty Association, 2009-2011

Member, Executive Committee, York University Faculty Association, 2009-2011, 2011-2012, 2013-2014

Member, Joint Committee on the Administration of the Agreement, 2009-2011

Green Paper Working Group on Strategic Expansion of Research Activity, Fall 2009

Steward, Humanities Department, June 2011-.

Director, Organized Research Unit in Science and Technology Studies, July 2010-June 2014.

Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Faculty Council Representative to Sentate, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2017.