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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Morris Low, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor

History of physics, science and social change, science in America.

Contact Information:
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072, AUSTRALIA
Telephone: 61-7-3365-6935
Email:  m.low@uq.edu.au

Areas of Interest:

East Asian history of science and technology, especially Japanese physics and technology, cultural history of science in Japan, science and gender, the transfer of laboratory science from the U.S. to Japan.

Current Projects:

"Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870-1930: Industrial Exhibitions and the City."  This project is part of a collaborative study of world cities, "Inventing an International Culture of Change, 1870-1930" funded by the National Science Foundation.


Recent Publications:

Morris Low, Japan on Display: Science, Photography and the Emperor.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Morris Low, Science and the Building of a New Japan.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Kam Louie and Morris Low, eds. Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

Morris Low, ed. Science, Technology and R & D in Japan, 3 vols. London: Routledge, 2001.

"From Einstein to Shirakawa: The Nobel Prize in Japan," Minerva 39 (2001):445-60.

Morris F. Low, Shigeru Nakayama, and Hitoshi Yoshioka, Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Morris Low, ed., Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology and Medicine in East and South East Asia. Species issue of Osiris, vol 13 (1998).  Introductory essay pp. 1-18.

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