Professional Contributions

Principal Investigator, SSHRC Connection Grant Workshop, "Women, Men, and Plants in 19th-Century Canada: New Resources, New Perspectives," York University, Toronto, October 19-20, 2017.

Discussant, session “Insides/Outsides: Drawing Out the Boundaries of Botanical Bodies and Environments,” History of Science Society annual meeting, Boston, MA, November 21-24, 2013.

Discussant, session “Science and Art in the American South, 1750-1850,” Seventh British-North American Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS, Philadelphia, Pa., July 2012.

Organizer of Session, “Cultures of Flowers,” American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2010.

Chair of Session, “Science and Place in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” History of Science Society, Washington, D.C., November 2007.

Organizer of Session, “The Big Divide? Humanities and Social Sciences Together,” Canadian Women’s Studies Association, University of Western Ontario, May 2005.

Organizer of Session, “Wax!” North American Victorian Studies Association, Toronto, October 2004.

Organizer of Session, “Visual Languages of Gender in Science,” History of Science Society, Cambridge, Mass., November 2003.

Chair of Session, “Erotics of Modern Reading,” North-East American Society for 18th-Century Studies,” New York, N.Y., October 2002.

Co-Organizer, “Visual Cultures of Gender in 19th-Century Science,” York University, May 2002.

Co-Organizer and Co-Director, “Figural Vocabularies of Gender in Science, Medicine, and Technology,” York Seminar for Advanced Research, York University 2001-02.

Session Organizer, “Making the Past Known: Women in Canadian Science and Medicine,” Writing the Past, Claiming the Future: Women and Gender in Science, Medicine, and Technology, St. Louis University, October 2000.

Session Organizer, "Graduate Programmes in Women's Studies/Gender Studies," Canadian Women's Studies Association, St. John's, NFLD, June 1997.

Chair and Comment of Session, "Women, Gender, and Science Writing," American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Tucson, AZ, May 1995.

Organizer and Chair of Session, "Using Nature's Languages: Women Popularizing Science," History of Science Society, New Orleans, November 1994.

Organizer and Co-Chair of Session, "Border Work: Women and Scientific Popularization," Society for Literature and Science, Boston, Mass., November 1993.

Organizer and Chair of Session, "Policy Implications of Gender Research in Science, Medicine, and Technology," History of Science Society, University of Wisconsin - Madison, November 1991.

Organizer and Chair of Session, "Women, Gender, and Science Culture," North-East American Society for 18th-Century Studies, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, October 1990.

Organizer of Session, "Disciplinarity/Interdisciplinarity/Multidisciplinarity/ Post-disciplinarity in 18th-Century Studies," American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Knoxville, Tenn., 1988.

Chair, "Feminism and Science," Society for Literature and Science, Albany, New York, 1988.

Organizer of Session, "Writing Biography in the History of Science: Feminist Issues and Perspectives," History of Science Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988.

Organizer of Session, "Feminist Approaches to Literature and Science," Society for Literature and Science, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1987.

Chair of Session, "Women in Scientific Culture: 18th-Century England and Germany," History of Science Society, Pittsburgh, 1986.

Organizer of Plenary Session on "Women in the 18th Century: The New Scholarship," American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Toronto, 1985.

Member-at-Large, Executive Board, American Society for 18th-Century Studies, 2003-06

Chair, Women's Caucus, American Society for 18th-Century Studies, 1991-5.

Executive Board, North-East American Society for 18th-Century Studies, 1982-87.

“Professional Development in Women’s Studies,” Canadian Women’s Studies Association, Laval University, Quebec, May 2001.

"Graduate Women's Studies: Directions for the Future," Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Chapel Hill, N.C., June 1996.

"Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? A History of the ASECS Women's Caucus," Women's Caucus Seminar, American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Austin, TX, March 1996.

Referee on articles submitted to scholarly journals: Isis, Eighteenth-Century Life, Resources for Feminist Research, Journal of the History of Biology, Science in Context, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in 18th-Century Culture, Configurations, British Journal for the History of Science, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Journal of Women’s History, Atlantis, Journal of Victorian Culture, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Annals of Science, Archives of Natural History, Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of the Western Society for French History.

Referee on book proposals and manuscripts submitted to: University of Chicago Press, The John Hopkins University Press, Rutgers University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Delaware Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, Broadview Press, University of Illinois Press, Harvard University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Pickering & Chatto, University of Alabama Press.

Chair, Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society, 2018.

Member, Prize Committee, Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society, 2016-2018.

Discussant, Book Launch, Joan Judge, Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), York University, March 2016.

Reviewer, Doctoral Program Proposal “The Sciences in Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Contexts,” University of Vienna, October 2009.

Presenter, Professional Development Workshop: “Getting Hired,” Canadian Women’s Studies Association/ACEF, May 2005.

“Should undergraduate Women’s Studies programs hire only Women’s Studies PhDs?” e-newsletter, Canadian Women’s Studies Association, Spring 2005.

Member, Graduate Student Essay Prize Committee, American Society for 18th-Century Studies, 2005.

Member, Editorial Board, Monograph series: “Science and Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain,” University of Pittsburgh Press.

Member, Editorial Board, Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period

Advisory Board, The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles

Assessor of Research Grant Proposal, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1999.

Assessor of Research Grant Proposals, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 2001; 2000.

Assessor of Research Grant Proposals, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1996, 1995, 1992.

Member, Committee on the Gottschalk Prize, American Society for 18th-Century Studies, 1991.

External Reviewer, Centre for Women’s Studies, Brock University, Spring 2002.

External Reviewer, Centre for Women's Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, February 1988.

Assessor of Tenure and Promotion Files: Queen’s University, 2010. University of North Carolina - Charlotte, 2009; St. John’s University, 2007; Lehigh University, 2006; University of Western Ontario, 2000; UCLA, 1994; Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994.

American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies, Modern Language Association, History of Science Society, British Society for the History of Science, Canadian Women's Studies Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Northeast Modern Language Association