Jonathan Hagood is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, a position he began in Fall 2008. He holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin (1998) and a Master of Arts (2005) and a Ph.D. in Latin American History (2008) from the University of California, Davis. At Hope College, Dr. Hagood teaches Latin American history as well as courses in the history of science and medicine, world history, and the Iberian Atlantic World. A three-year fellowship from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program funded his recent doctoral dissertation, which focused on the history of social medicine and public health in 1930s-50s Argentina. Other projects have included the history of nuclear research in Argentina, for which the Society for the History of Technology awarded Dr. Hagood the 2006 Levinson Prize, given each year to the author of an unpublished essay in the history of technology that explicitly examines, in some detail, a technology or technological device or process within the framework of social or intellectual history. Dr. Hagood is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine, the American Historical Association, the Conference of Latin American History, the History of Science Society, and the Latin American Studies Association. He is committed to the integration of research and education that combines the humanities and the natural sciences at the undergraduate level and hopes to extend this effort to elementary and secondary education by training pre-service science teachers to develop, explore, and carry out interdisciplinary research and experimentation.

hagood@hope.edu