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Paul Brinkman

Associate Professor

Department of History

Withers Hall 269

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Bio

I’m a career museum curator with overlapping interests in the sciences and the humanities. I graduated from Augustana College with a B.A. in history and geography and minors in geology and Latin American studies. In 2005, I completed a Ph.D. in history of science and technology at the University of Minnesota. A bibliophile and an avid traveler, I’m equally at home in the library or in the field. I also serve as head of the Environmental Humanities Research Laboratory and curator of Special Collections at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. I write books about people who write books about science.

Education

Ph.D. History of science and technology University of Minnesota 2005

Area(s) of Expertise

History of science, especially vertebrate paleontology and geology; museum history; Charles Darwin and other nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists