David Channell Professor of Historical Studies Office: JO 5.422 Phone:  972-883-2007 Email:  channell@utdallas.edu

Areas of Specialization:
History of science, technology and medicine; philosophy of science and technology; science and religion; art and technology; 18th- to 20th-century European intellectual history; 19th-century British history.

Education: 
Ph.D. in History of Science and Technology, Case Western Reserve University, 1975
M.S. in Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 1969
B.S. in Physics, Case Institute of Technology, 1967

Awards/Recognition:
Who's Who in the World, 7th ed
Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2nd ed
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 18th ed

Publications:

Books:

• Currently completing a book on The History of Science, Technology and Their Interactions, which will be published by Oxford University Press. (2008)
• The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991)
• The History of Engineering Science: An Annotated Bibliography (N.Y.: Garland, 1989)
• Scottish Men of Science--W.J.M. Rankine (Scotland's Cultural Heritage, 1986).

Articles/Papers:

“The Computer at Nature’s Core,” published in Wired Magazine (February 2004). 

He has also published over 50 articles, essays and reviews on the subject of the interaction of science and technology, and he has presented more that 40 professional papers in the U.S., Canada, Scotland, Germany, Sweden, France, Hungary, Romania, the Netherlands and China.   

Awards/Grants:

• Two year $86,700 Scholars Award from the Science & Technology Studies Program of the National Science Foundation.
• $10,000 Prize from the John Templeton Foundation as part of its Science and Religion Course Program
• $5,500 grant from the Templeton Foundation and the American Scientific Affiliation in order to organize a set of lectures on “God, Minds and Computers”
• $2,000 Development Award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at Berkeley
• $22,000 International Program Grant from the National Science Foundation
• $20,000 Demonstration Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
• $5,000 Research Grant from the National Science Foundation
• $4,000 Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Organizations:

• Member of the Society for the History of Technology
• Member of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
• Member of the History of Science Society
• Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Sigma Xi
• Served on the Executive Council of the Society for the History of Technology
• Served as an Advisory Editor for the journal Technology and Culture