Miriam Claude Meijer, Ph.D. email: book@petruscamper.com website: http://petruscamper.com EDUCATION: Computer Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD History PhD 1991 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) History MA 1980 The Catholic University of America (CUA), Washington, DC Anthropology BA 1974 The Catholic University of America (CUA), Washington, DC EXTRACURRICULUM ACTIVITIES: 1976-1977 Volunteer Translator - Musée de l’homme, Paris, France Summer 1973 Volunteer Excavator - Archaeological Excavations, Tel Gezer, Israel Summer 1972 Volunteer - Operation Crossroads Africa, Togo, West Africa GRANTS: 2004 Sabbatical - Microcomputer Technology - Montgomery College 2001-2002 St. Louis Ethical Society - Stuckenberg grant for Jenison biography 1994 and 1995 University of Central Arkansas (UCA) Summer Research Stipend 1987 Institut für Europäische Geschichte Fellowship - Mainz, Germany 1985-1986 Fulbright Scholar Fellowship - Leiden, The Netherlands 1983 DAAD Goethe Institut Stipend - Munich, Germany COMPUTER / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: 2000-7 Instructional Assistant, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD. 2000-1 Web Content Editor/Copywriter, Insuractive, Inc., Alexandria, VA. 1999 Computer Internship, Fusion Lighting, Inc., Rockville, MD. 1997-8 Secretary/Historian, Washington Ethical Society, Washington, DC. 1992 Administrative Consultant, Museum Education Roundtable, Washington, DC. 1992 Volunteer Archivist, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 1990-2 Receptionist/Data Processing, Washington Ethical Society, Washington, DC. 1983-4 Research Assistant to Dr. Eric Monkkonen, UCLA History Department, Los Angeles, CA. 1982-3 Research Assistant to Dr. Hans Rogger, UCLA History Chair, Los Angeles, CA. 1981-2 Work-Study Assistant Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 1980-1 Library Clerk College Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 1980 Deck Attendant/Reading Room Desk, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 1979 Secretary/Typist, Jewish War Veterans, Ladies Auxiliary, Washington, DC. 1975-6 Library Assistant, American College in Paris, Paris, France. 1974-5 Office Clerk, College of Business & Management, University of MD, College Park. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 1999-2000 Adjunct Professor, Montgomery College (MC), Takoma Park, MD 1993-1996 Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas (UCA), Conway, AR 1992-1993 Adjunct Professor, George Washington University (GWU), Washington, DC 1983-1985 Teaching Assistant, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 1979-1980 Teaching Assistant, The Catholic University of America (CUA), Washington, DC COURSES TAUGHT: Computer Concepts MC CS 110 European Civilization in its World Context GWU HIST 39 and 40 World History I and World History II UCA HIST 1310 and 1320 European Society and Intellectual History, 1500-1830 UCA HIST 4320/5320 Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolution UCA HIST 4378/5378 Concepts of the Non-Europeans in Early Modern Europe UCA HIST 6342 PUBLICATIONS: "The Century of the Orangutan," New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 1 (2004): 62-78. "The Fifth Ascent of Mont Blanc: from the diary and letters of Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759-1820)," The Alpine Journal 150 (2000): 177-189. "Nancy Blanche Jenison, M.D. (1876-1960)," American National Biography 11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 933-934. Race and Aesthetics in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1999). "Petrus Camper" and "Facial Angle," History of Physical Anthropology: an Encyclopedia, ed. Frank Spencer (New York & London: Garland, 1997): 242-245 and 373-378. "Petrus Camper on the Origin and Color of Blacks," History of Anthropology Newsletter 24 (December 1997): 3-9. The Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) Ph.D. Thesis (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1992). "Petrus Camper," International Dictionary of Anthropologists, ed. Christopher Winters (New York: Garland, 1991): 97-99. REVIEWS OF MY BOOK: Berland, Kevin. "Outward Sign and Inward Condition: Recent Studies in Physiognomy, Anthropometry, and Related Sciences," Eighteenth-Century Studies 36 (2003): 266-269. Lynn, Michael R. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57.2 (April 2002): 228-229. Barnard, Alan J. Review Essay: "Anthropology, Race, and Englishness: Changing Notions of Complexion and Character," Eighteenth-Century Life 25 (2002): 94-102. Vermij, Rienk H. Bijdragen en hededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 115 (2000): 615-616. LECTURES, SEMINARS, PAPERS: 2006 "The Intersection of Race and Aesthetics in 18th-c. Anthropology," Sciences of Race Conference, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Los Angeles, CA. 2006 "The Novel Aspects of Buffon's Otherwise Classical Environmentalism," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Montreal, CANADA. 2004 "The Skin Color Debate About Adam and Eve," American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies (ASECS), Boston, MA. 2004 "Animating Eighteenth-Century Metamorphoses," American Association for History and Computing (AAHC), Washington, DC. 2003 "Petrus Camper on Shoe Morphology," East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (E-C/ASECS), Greensburg, PA. 2003 "Paradise Moved: Science Affects Religion," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), Los Angeles, CA. 2003 Panel Chair of "The Impact of Petrus Camper on the Republic of Letters," International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), Los Angeles, CA. 2003 "The Sinfulness of Foreign Features: Ugliness=Unnatural," Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Columbia, SC. 2003 "The Dialectic of the Occipital Foramen," Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS), Durham, NC. 2002 "Petrus Camper’s Protean Performances: The Metamorphoses," East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (E-C/ASECS), Rosemont, PA. 2002 "The Century of the Orangutan," Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Chapel Hill, NC. 2001 "Petrus Camper’s Anatomy of the Passions: The Revolt Against Descartes," East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (E-C/ASECS), Cape May, NJ. 2001 "Up From the Cosmic Fall: Buffon’s Human Prototype," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), New Orleans, LA. 2000 "Classical Statuary in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789)," East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (E-C/ASECS), Norfolk, VA. 2000 "Anatomy and Physiology in Herder’s 'Ideen'," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Philadelphia, PA. 2000 "Early Twentieth-Century Ethics in Practice: The Case of Nancy Blanche Jenison, M.D.," History of Medicine Seminar, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. 1999 "The Fifth Ascent of the Mont Blanc: Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759-1820)," Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS), Columbia, MO. 1998 "Biological Rhetoric in J. G. Herder," European History Section, Southern Historical Association (SHA), Birmingham, AL. 1998 "Classical Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Anthropology," Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS), Mackinaw City, MI. 1998 "Biological Rhetoric in Herder’s 'Ideen'," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), South Bend, IN. 1997 "Buffon on Rhetoric and Race Formation," CHEIRON: International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Richmond, VA. 1997 "Pre-Professional Anthropology," Capital Area Independent Scholars, Washington, DC. 1997 "Eighteenth-Century Anthropology: Linnaeus, Buffon, Camper, and Blumenbach," Scholars’ Colloquium Series, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC. 1997 "Buffon and Eighteenth-Century Theories of Race," History of Medicine Seminar, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. 1996 "Buffon’s Natural Law of Race Formation," European History Section, Southern Historical Association (SHA), Little Rock, AR. 1995 "Race and Aesthetics in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper," Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Mobile, AL. 1994 "Reexamining the Facial Angle Theory of Petrus Camper," Arkansas Sociological and Anthropological Association (ASAA), Conway, AR. 1994 Panel Chair of "Constructing Primates: Science, Literature, and the Boundaries of the Human," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Charleston, SC. 1994 "Facial Angle Theory of Petrus Camper," University of Central Arkansas History Department Faculty and Graduate Seminar, Conway, AR. 1992 Participated in "Travellours’ Histories: European Representations of New World Cultures," Seminar Dr. Steven Mullaney, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. 1991 "Petrus Camper and Eighteenth-Century Physical Anthropology," History of Medicine Staff Seminar, NLM, Bethesda, MD. 1991 "The Anthropology of Petrus Camper," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Pittsburgh, PA. 1986 "'Wij zijn alle zwarten,' Petrus Camper and Pre-paradigm Germanic Anthropology," History of Science Colloquium, Royal University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 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