Full-Time Faculty: Donald L. Opitz
Donald L. Opitz, Assistant Professor
Phone: 312-362-6426
E-mail: dopitz@depaul.edu
Degrees: B.S., DePaul (Physics and Mathematics), M.A. and Ph.D., University of Minnesota (History of Science and Technology).
Dr. Opitz's research and teaching examine the historical intersection of science with culture.
Courses
- LL 205 Quantitative Reasoning
- LL 300 Research Seminar (SNL Online)
- IN 307 Advanced Elective Seminar: The Search for the Gay Gene
- SW 208 Issues in Science and Religion
- SW 208 Issues in Science and Religion (SNL Online)
- SW 220 Cosmic History: From Big Bang to Many Universes
Recent Awards and Grants
Dibner Research Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology, 2009-2010
DePaul Institute for Nature & Culture Faculty Fellowship, 2009
Selected Publications:
Opitz, D. L. (2008). “Adrian, Edgar.” In The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, I: 14-19, ed. N. Koertge. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
Opitz, D. L. (2008). “Strutt, John William (Baron Rayleigh).” In The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, VI: 547-550, ed. N. Koertge. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
Opitz, D. L. (2006). Sandra Herbert, Charles Darwin, Geologist, Ithaca: Cornell, 2005. Journal of British Studies 45 (3): 677-678. (Book review).
Opitz, D. L. (2006). “‘This House is a Temple of Research’: Country-House Centres for Late-Victorian Science.” Pp. 235-259 in Repositioning Victorian Sciences: Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Thinking, ed. D. Clifford, E. S. Wadge, A. Warwick and M. Willis. Cambridge: Anthem.
Opitz, D. L. (2004). “Introduction.” In Mary Roberts, The Conchologist’s Companion. Science Writing by Women, ed. B. Lightman, III: v-x. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum.
Opitz, D. L. (2004). “‘Behind Folding Shutters in Whittingehame House’: Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936) and Amateur Natural History,” Archives of Natural History 31: 330-348. [Corrigenda in 32: 126.]
Kohlstedt, S. G. and Opitz, D. L. (2002). “Re-Imag(in)ing Women in Science: Crafting Identity and Negotiating Gender in Science.” Pp. 105-139 in The Changing Image of the Sciences, ed. I. H. Stamhuis, T. Koetsier, C. De Pater, and A. Van Helden. Amsterdam: Kluwer.