Michael A. Osborne

Professor of Environmental Studies and History	Office:	Bren Hall 4001 and HSSB 4222
	Phone:	(805) 893-2901, (805) 893-7371
	Fax:	(805) 893-8686
	E-mail:	osborne@history.ucsb.edu
	Website:	www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/osborne.htm
	Mailing Address:	Environmental Studies Program University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160
	Courses:	ES/HIST 107/107G, History of Global Environmental Problems ES/HIST 107A, History of the Biological Sciences: Antiquity to Circa 1600 ES/HIST 107C, History of the Biological Sciences: Circa 1800 to Present

Dr. Osborne has held fellowships from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University. Since 1995 he has directed UCSB's group on the Humanities and the Environment funded by the UC Humanities Research Institute. Previous research topics have included the history of environmental and biological ideas in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries; the history of zoos; the history of zoology; the history of natural history museums; the history of public health; the history of military medicine. His current research investigates the relationships between natural history, human medicine, and genetics; the history and sociology of European environmental movements; tropical diseases and the medicalization of colonized peoples and environments; science and imperialism in a global context.

Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Selected Publications:
"Acclimatizing the world: A history of the paradigmatic colonial science," Osiris 15 (2000): 601-617.

"Science in the Maghrib," The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 8, Modern Science in National and International Context edited by David N. Livingstone and Ronald L. Numbers. (In press.)

"The geographical imperative in nineteenth century French medicine," Medical History, Supplement no. 20, December 2000, pp. 31-50.

Science, Technology, and Society, [Special Issue: Social History of Science], co-edited with Deepak Kumar, 1999, 4:159-378.

"Les effets paradoxaux des sciences et techniques," Les cahiers de science et vie, 50, April 1999, pp. 14-20.

"The Role of Exotic Animals in the Scientific and Political Culture of Nineteenth Century France," Colloques d'histoire des connaissances zoologiques, 1998, 9:15-32.

"La renaissance d'Hippocrate. L'hygiéne et les expéditions scientifiques en Egypte, en Morée, et en Algérie," L'invention scientifique de la Mediterranée: Egypte, Morée, Algérie, edited by Marie-Noelle Bourguet, et alia. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1998, pp. 185-204.