Jacob Darwin Hamblin (born September 17, 1974) is an American professor of history, specializing in international aspects of science, technology, and the global environment. His 2013 book ''
Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism'' won two prestigious awards: the 2014
Paul Birdsall Prize
The Paul Birdsall Prize is an biennial prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association.
Background
The prize was established by a donation from Hans W. Gatzke, who remained anonymous until his death. The prize is named for P ...
and the 2016
Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize ''This prize should not be confused with the Watson Davis Award'' from the Association for Information Science and Technology.
The Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society is awarded yearly for a book published, dur ...
.
[ (with publication list)]
Education and career
Hamblin received in 1995 a diploma in history from the
University of Kent
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, mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...
in
Canterbury, England. At the
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...
, he graduated in history with a B.A. in 1995, an M.A. in 1998, and a Ph.D. in 2001. His Ph.D. thesis
''Oceanography and International Cooperation during the Early Cold War'' was supervised by
Lawrence Badash. From 2001 to 2002 Hamblin was a postdoctoral fellow in Paris at the Centre Alexandre Koyré,
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...
. He was a lecturer from 2002 to 2004 at
Loyola Marymount University
Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private Jesuit and Marymount research university in Los Angeles, California. It is located on the west side of the city near Playa Vista. LMU is the parent school to Loyola Law School, which is located ...
in Los Angeles and also from 2002 to 2006 at
California State University
The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California. With 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 485,550 students with 55,909 faculty and staff, CSU is the largest four-year public univers ...
in Long Beach. From 2006 to 2009 he was an assistant professor of history at
Clemson University
Clemson University () is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university in the student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester, the university enro ...
in South Carolina. In the history department of
Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...
(OSU), Hamblin was from 2009 to 2012 an assistant professor and from 2012 to 2015 an associate professor and is, since 2015, a full professor. At OSU he is also, since 2014, the director of Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative.
[
Hamblin's essays have been published in many academic journal, as well in '']The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' and ''Salon.com
''Salon'' is an American politically progressive/ liberal news and opinion website created in 1995. It publishes articles on U.S. politics, culture, and current events.
Content and coverage
''Salon'' covers a variety of topics, including re ...
''.[ From 2017 to 2022 he was the principal investigator for the OSU Downwinders Project. As of 2022, he is the author of five books.]Oregon Book Award
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. ...
for general nonfiction. He was from 2009 to 2011 an advisory editor for the journal ''Isis'', from 2013 to 2018 a member of the advisory board of ''Environmental History''), and was from 2016 to 2019 a founding editorial board member of ''Modern American History'' published by Cambridge University Press. He is since 2011 an advisory editor for ''Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
''Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Office for History of Science and Technology (University of California, Berkeley). It was establishe ...
'', since 2020 a subject editor for the ''Journal of the History of Biology
The ''Journal of the History of Biology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of biology as well as philosophical and social issues confronting biology. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the edito ...
'', and since 2020 an editorial board member for the Oregon State University Press
Oregon State University Press, or OSU Press, founded in 1961, is a university press that publishes roughly 15 titles per year and is part of Oregon State University. The only academic publisher in Oregon, the press produces works related to the Pa ...
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Selected publications
Articles
* 2002
* 2006
* 2007
* 2009
* 2014
Books
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References
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1974 births
Living people
20th-century American historians
21st-century American historians
American historians of science
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Oregon State University faculty
American male non-fiction writers