The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments I h a v e b e e n e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y l u c k y t o h a v e worked with many intelligent and compassionate colleagues, and it is not possible to thank them all. There are a few, however, who directly contributed to this project and who deserve special thanks. Robert Mitchell has been the best of friends and colleagues. He read multiple drafts of the manuscript and has given me invaluable and insightful advice. My editor, Jacqueline Ettinger, has encouraged and guided me for a number of years now. She is one of the best in the business. Kanna Hudson helped with line editing and references when my schedule became too busy to work on the manuscript myself, and Molly Wallace of the University of Washington Press was an exemplary copyeditor. Bruce Clark and an anonymous reviewer read a draft of the manuscript , and their invaluable advice made the end product both more scholarly and more readable. I have also been fortunate enough to have mentors who have helped me to identify interesting problems and to craft compelling arguments. I owe Timothy Lenoir more than I can express. His guidance in the early stages of this project was invaluable. It was in a research seminar taught by Tim, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht that I started working on this project. While at StanX I ford, I also received help and advice from Jessica Riskin, Paul Edwards, Joan Fujimura, and Joe Corn. Gabrielle Hecht deserves special mention. She took time out of her busy schedule as an assistant professor to teach a scientist returning to graduate school how to write a history paper. I might have dropped out of school without Gabrielle’s help and encouragement. I had many helpful mentors while teaching at Carleton University: Bruce Curtis, Pat O’Malley, Margaret Foddy, Rob Shields, Michael Jemtrud, Daiva Stasiulis, and Aaron Doyle never hesitated to offer both constructive criticism and praise. Sadly, my two greatest mentors at Carleton, Charlie Gordon and Bruce McFarlane, passed away shortly after I left the program. My current mentors at the University of Washington, John Toews and Kathleen Woodward, deserve a special “thank you” for believing in me and giving me opportunities. They demonstrated to me how to be a top-notch scholar, make tough decisions, and remain a caring human in the process. This has been the most important of all lessons. A number of colleagues have contributed to the project through discussions and the reading of drafts. At the University of Washington, John Findlay and William Rorabaugh identified gaffes and lacunae in an earlier draft. Also Bruce Hevly, Tom Hankins, and Keith Benson provided needed encouragement when the project was very young. Christophe Lecuyer, Matthew Price, Heather Schell, Amir Alexander, David Kirsch, Weston Headley, Leslie Berlin, and Alicia Gamez provided a needed intellectual community while at Stanford. My students have all had to suffer through some of this material, and I thank them greatly for it. I wish I could name them all: they deserve it. There are a number of people who have not worked directly with this project but have provided support through the courage of their interdisciplinary work. Ann Anagnost, Stephanie Andrews, Anne Beaulieu, Liz Brown, Helen Burgess, Jessica Burstein, Hugh Crawford, Rich Doyle, Donald Fels, Mike Fortun, Joanna Frueh, Anne Galloway, Ellen Garvens, Diane Gromala, Mark Hansen, Kate Hayles, Robin Held, Sylvia Kurinsky, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi , Robert Markley, Craig McFarlane, Steven Oscherwitz, Peter Oppenheimer, Amy Peloff, Alan Rauch, Brian Reed, Brian Rotman, Steven Shaviro, Sha Xin Wei, David Silver, Robyn Smith, Susan Squier, Barbara Stafford, Theron Stevenson, Eugene Thacker, Kari Tupper, Claudia X. Valdes, José van Dijck, Catherine Waldby, Marek Wieczorek, Elizabeth Wilson, and Cary Wolfe are some of the most important. X I I / A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Finally my wife, Uma Malhotra, has tolerated my obsessive need to read and write while reminding me that there is more to life than these obsessions. Her patience with this long project saturates every page of this book. My motherin -law, Kamla Malhotra, helped keep our household running while Uma and I worked at two demanding careers. And my daughter, Kamla, is the source of the soundest advice. A C K N O W L E...