Helen M. Rozwadowski
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Scholarly Contributions
104 Scholarly Contributions
“Writing Ocean History,”
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“Wild Blue: Legacy of the Post World War II Perception of Ocean as Frontier,”
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“What Can Maritime History Do For You?”
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“Visualizing the Undersea: Science, Technology and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Representations,” Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, May 26, 2023
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“Visualizing the Undersea: Science, Technology and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Representations,” Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, The University of Manchester, May 16, 2023
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“Undersea” and Other Categories of Space: A Proposal for Writing Histories of the Earth and Environmental Sciences,”
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“The Development of ICES”
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“Sounding Ocean Maps for Early Modern Understanding of the Undersea,” Maps, Charts and Maritime Modernities Workshop, Oslo, Norway, June 6, 2023.
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“Reckoning with a Racist Legacy in Ocean Sciences”
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“Oceans and History”
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“Ocean Boosters"
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“Introduction” to “Why Ocean History,” History of Oceanography Website, Sept. 13, 2022; https://oceansciencehistory.com/2022/09/13/why-ocean-history/
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“Homo aquaticus, Evolution and Knowing the Ocean in the 1950s and 1960s,”
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“Homo aquaticus and Evolving Knowledge of the Ocean,”
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“Frontiers of Discovery: Changing Meanings of “Frontier” from Frederick Jackson Turner to John F. Kennedy and Beyond,”
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“From Robust Frontier to Fragile Environment: American History and Conceptions of the Post World War II Ocean”
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’Bringing Humanity Full Circle Back into the Sea’: Homo aquaticus, Evolution, and the Ocean
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Wilderness and Frontier: The Post World War II Ocean Redefined by Metaphors of Land
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Wild Blue: The Post-World War Two Ocean Frontier and Its Legacy for Law of the Sea
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Wild Blue: Legacy of the Post World War II Perception of the Ocean as Frontier
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Wild Blue: The Undersea World As Frontier in the 1950s and 1960s
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Wild Blue: Legacy of the Post-World War II Perception of Ocean as Frontier
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Why a historical reassessment of Matthew Fontaine Maury?
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When the Ocean was a Frontier: Lessons from 1960s Ocean Sciences
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Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
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Undersea Frontier: Science, Technology and the Legacy of Post-World War II Perception of the Ocean
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Travelers: Vertical and Horizontal Voyaging on and in the Non-human Ocean
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Third Discovery of the Sea?: A Central Role for the Humanities
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Third Discovery of the Sea?
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The Three-Dimensional Ocean
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The Spaces In-Between: Science, Ocean, Empire
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The Promise of Ocean History for Environmental History
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The Pacific Crucible: How an Ocean Helped Transform Science into a Frontier
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The Ocean as Frontier
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The Ocean and Outer Space Frontiers of Arthur C. Clarke
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The Ocean Frontier and its Legacy
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The Blue Frontier: Science and the Global Enclosure of the Ocean After World War II
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TEDx Boston, “Fathoming the Oceans through History,” Planetary Stewardship Ocean Exploration, The Algonquin Club, Boston, MA, March 27, 2023. Talk in production for posting to YouTube
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Swimming Under the Archetype: Private Actors in Undersea Science
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Scientists Writing and Knowing the Ocean
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Science, Technology and the Sea: Comment on the Concept Design for an exhibition on ‘Europa und das Meer/Europe and the Sea
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Science and Supranationalism: Exploring the History of Science in Intergovernmental Organizations
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Roundtable organizer and presenter, "Public History and the Ocean Environment"
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Roundtable organizer and Presenter: "Revisiting Neptune’s Garden: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Oceanic History"
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Review of _Of Seas and Ships and Scientists: THe Remarkable History of the UK's National Institute of Oceanography, 1949-1973
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Rethinking Matthew Fontaine Maury’s Racist Legacy in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Reprint of a journal article.“Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a Frontier,” pp. 115-138 in Rendezvous with Clarke: Centenary Essays, edited by Andrew M. Butler and Paul March-Russell (Canterbury: Gylphi Press, 2022).
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Reconsidering Matthew Fontaine Maury
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People and Oceans: From Robust Frontiers to Fragile Environments
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Part of panel accepted for a conference that was cancelled due to the pandemic:Chair and Commentator for session “Below the Surface: Perception and Governance of Marine Spaces,” American Society for Environmental History, Annual Meeting, Ottawa, March 25-29, 2020
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Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities
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Oceans and People: Why Humanities? Why History? Why History of Science?
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Oceans and Origins: Oceanography in the Twentieth Century
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Oceanic Worlds: A Roundtable
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Ocean's Depths
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Ocean as Frontier and Wilderness: Metaphors of Land Applied to the Sea
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Ocean Time, Human Time
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Ocean Literacy in the 3ROcean Framework
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Ocean Literacy and Public Humanities
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Ocean Dreams, Ocean Disasters
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New Horizons: How Science Became a Frontier in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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Navigating the Unknown
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Maury for Modern Times: Navigating a Racist Legacy in Ocean Science
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Lines to Shore Tied with Sailors’ Knots: The Implementations of Maritime Cultural Landscapes Thus Far, and their Present and Future Challenges
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Legacy of the Ocean ‘Frontier’: Cultural History and Law of the Sea
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Legacy of the Blue Frontier: Ocean Science, Metaphor, and Law of the Sea
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Keynote, “Visualizing the Undersea: Science, Technology, Culture, and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Representations,” Oceanic Humanities, A symposium and opening event for the new initiative, Humanities: Land Sea Space, launched by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M, College Station
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Invited public lecture: “Visualizing the Undersea,” Block Island Maritime Institute, July 5, 2022.
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Invited panelist: “Teaching Ocean History,” History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine Working Group, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, June 21, 2022 (held remotely). https://www.chstm.org/oceanshstm
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Invited panelist, “SEA State: The Human Dimension,” 50th Anniversary Academic Symposium, Sea Education Association, June 25, 2022; video available here: https://sea.edu/about-us/sea-50th-anniversary/
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Invited lecture: “Expedition Leadership: Lessons from 19th Century Ocean Sciences,” Maine Maritime Academy, October 17, 2022
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Invited lecture for the Center for Environmental Studies’ 9th Cultures of Energy symposium, Rice University, April 24, 2020. POSTPONED, not yet rescheduled
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Invited Keynote: “Franklin’s Ocean,” 2023 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration: The Health of the Oceans, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 20, 2023
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Invited Keynote: “Exploration and “Frontiers” of Science,” History of Modern Expeditions Workshop, German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, June 16, 2023
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Intersections of conservation biology and environmental history
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Imagined Oceans
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Hydrography + Fisheries: Variations on Fisheries Hydrography in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
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How Ocean History Can Help Save Our Planet
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Homo aquaticus, Evolution, and Knowing the Ocean in the 1960s
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Homo aquaticus, Evolution, and Knowing the Ocean in the 1950s and 60s
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History’s Relevance to Diversity and Global Learning
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History of the Ocean: Why and How
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History of the Ocean
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Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lectureship. “Writing Ocean Histories,” Memorial University
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Guest discussant for Virtual HistSTM Community Book Club, on the topic “Exploration and Science”
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From Danger Zone to World of Wonder: The 1950s Transformation of the Ocean’s Depths
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Forum: Knowing the Ocean: A Role for the History of Science
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Fathoming the Real and Imagined Nineteenth-Century Ocean
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Fathoming the Ocean: Writing the History of the Ocean’s 3rd Dimension
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Epistemologies: Science and Local Knowledges
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Envisioning the Undersea: The Ongoing Quest to See Below the Surface,” in conjunction with the exhibit, “Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art”
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Engineering the Ocean: The Birth of Ocean Engineering in the 1960s
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Earth Day, the Oceans, and Ocean History
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Contributed historical text for bronze plaque to accompany Renee Rhodes' bronze sculpture "Athena Stands Watch," installed in New London, Connecticut, in July 2018
Helen M. Rozwadowski
, (2018). Contributed historical text for bronze plaque to accompany Renee Rhodes' bronze sculpture "Athena Stands Watch," installed in New London, Connecticut, in July 2018, [Other Artistic Work]
Research Type: Artistic and Professional Performances
Contributed a text panel to accompany George Bellow’s painting “Criehaven” for the “Land-Grant Landscapes: Pre 1950 American Landscapes from the Benton Museum” exhibit
Helen M. Rozwadowski
, (2014). Contributed a text panel to accompany George Bellow’s painting “Criehaven” for the “Land-Grant Landscapes: Pre 1950 American Landscapes from the Benton Museum” exhibit, [Other Artistic Work]
Research Type: Artistic and Professional Performances
Commentator for session Re-envisioning Maritime History as Environmental History
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Co-organizer and moderator: “Early Modern Ocean History”, American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 24, 2023
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Co-organizer and Roundtable panelist for John Gillis Tribute; the purpose of this event was to recognize and celebrate Gillis's contributions to ocean & coastal history.
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Co-organizer & moderator: “Oceans in Depth: Knowledge, Resource, Representation Roundtable” History of Science Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Nov. 17, 2022
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Carson and the Sea
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Book Review of David Igler, The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
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Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a Frontier
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"The History and Power of the Undersea View,” pp. 11-24 in Alexis Rockman: Oceanus, ed. by Christina Brophy (Mystic Seaport Museum and Rizzoli, 2023). [exhibit catalog]
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"Proposal Writing 101" Panelist, for the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the Virtual HistSTM Community
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