Paul Lucier

Teaching

Paul Lucier has taught in England at Birkbeck College, University of London, and at the University of Sussex, and in the United States at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and at the University of Rhode Island. He has offered courses on a range of topics and at various levels, from introductory surveys to graduate research seminars. The common quality of all of them is an engaging combination of scholarly rigor and intellectual curiosity.

The titles of courses are particular to certain universities, so they are listed here under general descriptions.

Teaching

Science, Technology, and the Environment

Introductory Level

  • Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
  • History of Western Science I: Ancient Greece to the Scientific Revolution
  • History of Western Science II: Newton to NATO
  • History of Technology: Industrial Revolution to the Computer Revolution
  • Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective

Upper Level and Graduate

  • Science in American Society
  • Technology in American Culture
  • American Industrialization
  • Engineers and Technocracy
  • History of the American West
  • American Environmental History
  • Energy and the Environment
  • Nature's Resources and American History
  • History of the Earth Sciences

American History

Introductory Level

  • Introduction to American History I: Pre-Columbus to Reconstruction
  • Introduction to American History II: Reconstruction to Reagan

Upper Level and Graduate

  • Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Gilded Age and Progressive Era
  • Slavery and Race in American Society
  • American Intellectual History
  • American Cultural History