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Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

“Popularizing the Cosmos: Pedagogies of Science and Society in Anton Pannekoek’s Life and Work,” in Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen (eds), Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960): Ways of Viewing Science and Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 175-197. [Open Access]

Tucker, “Popularizing the Cosmos: Pedagogies of Science and Society in Anton Pannekoek’s Life and Work,” Ch. 9 in Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen (eds), Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960): Ways of Viewing Science and Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 175-197. [Open Access] My chapter is available Read more

By admin, 7 yearsJanuary 8, 2019 ago

Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

The New York Times: Do You Know What Lightning Really Looks Like?

I was quoted in a The New York Times story comparing artistic renderings of lightening with actual photographs of the dramatic weather phenomena. Offering context, I told the Times that the new work fits into a long history of scientists drawing a boundary between artistic and photographic representations of lightning Read more

By admin, 7 yearsJune 11, 2018 ago

Media Interviews and Opinions

History News Network: Tabloid Photographers Are Hounding the Royals, But They Have a History of Using Each Other

Ahead of a royal wedding and all the accompanying tabloid coverage, I reflect on how the public’s relationship with the monarchy has been transformed dramatically by the invention of photography, dating back to the early 19th century and the reign of Queen Victoria. I show how “Long before the digital Read more

By admin, 7 yearsMay 7, 2018 ago

Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

“Visual and Material Studies,” in Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, and Lucy Noakes, (eds.) New Directions in Social and Cultural History (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018), pp. 129-42.

Tucker, “Visual and Material Studies,” in Sasha Handley, Rohan McWilliam, and Lucy Noakes, (eds.)New Directions in Social and Cultural History (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018), pp. 129-42. Pdf here. Abstract: “Visual materials excite viewers’ imagination about the past and also raise the question of how these materials will be viewed Read more

By admin, 8 yearsJanuary 8, 2018 ago

Art, Scientific Discovery, and Visual Imagination

Visual Ecologies

In this essay for the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s “Seeing Science: Photography, Science, and Visual Culture,” I examine how images of the environment “serve as both as catalyst and as a mode of understanding. Visual portrayals help shape the context in which a politics takes place, and are often Read more

By admin, 9 yearsJanuary 24, 2017 ago

Modern British History, Gender, and Culture

Visiting Senior Fellow, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University College London, Jan-Feb. 2016.

In early 2016, I visited The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University College London for two months, as a guest of Birkbeck’s History of Art Department. It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know scholars working in this department, such as Profs. Lynda Nead, Patrizia di Bello, and Steve Read more

By admin, 9 yearsApril 8, 2016 ago

Book Chapters

“Photographic Migrations: The Tichborne Claimant, Popular Archives, and the ‘Evidence of Camera Pictures,’” in Kelley Wilder and Gregg Mitman, eds. Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 22-44.

Tucker, “Photographic Migrations: The Tichborne Claimant, Popular Archives, and the ‘Evidence of Camera Pictures,’” in Kelley Wilder and Gregg Mitman, eds. Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 22-44.

By admin, 10 yearsJanuary 8, 2016 ago

Academic Awards and Research Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities, Public Scholar Award, 2015.

The NEH Public Scholar program, an initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is designed to promote the publication of scholarly nonfiction books for a general audience. On July 29, 2015, I received a grant worth $50,400 to support research for a new project, provisionally titled Caught on Camera: Read more

By admin, 10 yearsJanuary 8, 2016 ago

Media Interviews and Opinions

BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The Tichborne Claimant

I was featured on a BBC program titled, “The Tichborne Claimant: The Five Photographs that (You Didn’t Know) Changed Everything” in which I discussed how a seemingly mundane photograph can have a lasting and powerful historical impact. I told the story of one such photograph taken in 1865 that changed Read more

By admin, 10 yearsFebruary 20, 2015 ago

Book Chapters

“‘Famished for News Pictures’: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit,” in Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015), pp. 215-220.

Tucker, “‘Famished for News Pictures’: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit,” in Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds. Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2015), pp. 215-220.

By admin, 11 yearsJanuary 8, 2015 ago