Peder Roberts
…now has a personal profile at http://nordicspaces.se/researchers/peder-roberts/
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Peder Roberts
PhD Program, Stanford University 2004-10. Includes one academic term at the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway (University of London). Department of History (Program in History of Science)
Dissertation Title: ‘A Frozen Field of Dreams: Culture, Politics, and Antarctic Science in Norway, Sweden, and the British World, 1912-1952’, supervised by Professor Robert N. Proctor. Additional dissertation committee members: Professor Londa Schiebinger; Professor Priya Satia.
Master of Arts (Research), University of New South Wales 2002-2004
School of History and Philosophy of Science
Thesis Title: ‘Specimens, Skins, and Souvenirs: Rethinking the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914’, supervised by Dr Nicolas Rasmussen.
Main publications
‘‘What Has All This Got To Do With Science?’ The Rhetoric of Scientific Devotion in British Government Plans for the International Geophysical Year’, Proceedings of the SCAR History Workshop, 2007, in press.
‘När Polarforskningen Blev Professionell, 1900-1960 [The Professionalization of Polar Research, 1900-1960]’, Ymer 2009, pp. 129-150.
‘Fighting the ‘Microbe of Sporting Mania’: Australian Science and Antarctic Exploration in the Early Twentieth Century’, Endeavor 28, 2004, pp. 109-113.