James McClellan - Professor
	Professor Dean, College of Arts & Letters Head, Dept of History Email: jmcclell@stevens.edu Phone:  (201) 216-5395 Fax: (201) 216-8245 Office: Morton 330 Office Hours:
Research Interests History of Science;  History of France in the Old Regime;  History of colonialism/imperialism

Education

B.A., Columbia University, 1968
M.A. Princeton University, 1973
M. Eng, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1975

Principal Publications

"Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Academie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1793", Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 93, pt. 3 (2003).

[Second author with Robert Halleux, Daniela Berariu, Genevi Xhayet.] "Les Publications de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris (1666-1793)", 2 vols. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001.

[With Harold Dorn.] "Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction", Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Book Award for 2000, World History Association. Translated into German and Chinese; Turkish and Korean editions underway.

"Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime", Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

"Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century", New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

plus more than 150 refereed/solicited articles, book reviews, and presentations.

Honors and Awards

American Philosophical Society, 2003 John Frederick Lewis Award for monograph, "Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Academie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1793".

Distinguished Teaching Award, Stevens Alumni Association, Awarded May 31, 2003.

Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. Elected a membre correspondant in June, 2002.

American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Sabbatical Research Fellowship, 1999-2000.

World History Association, Book Award for 2000, winner with H. Dorn for Science and Technology in World History, June, 1999.

Jess H. Davis Memorial Research Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, August, 1999.

M.Eng. (honoris causa), Stevens Institute of Technology, awarded September 1998.

Distinguished Teaching Award, Stevens Alumni Association, Awarded May 31, 1997.

Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1995-1996.

"Professeur invite", Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Ministere de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, March - April 1995.

Jess H. Davis Memorial Research Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, September, 1983.

French Government scholarship (Bourse du gouvernement francais), awarded in competition through the Institute for International Education and the Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres; Direction Generale des Relations Culturelles, Scientifiques et Techniques in Paris. 1973-1974.

Professional Affiliations

Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Membre correspondant.

History of Science Society, Lifetime Sustaining Member.

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Voting Member, Section L.

Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Charter Member.

British Society for the History of Science. Member.

Societe de l'Etude du Dix-Huitieme Siecle. Member.

New York Academy of Sciences. Member, Section for History and Philosophy of Science; Section Advisory Committee Member, 1995-present; co-chair, 2000-2002; chair 2002-2003.

Principal Courses Taught

History of Science; Social History of Science; Galileo; Newton; Darwin; the Old Regime and French Revolution.

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