Mark Hineline
Visiting Scholar 2008-2009
Lecturer, Sixth College UCSD

Area of Expertise: Earth and life sciences, Nineteenth and twentieth centuries, United States. Science studies (philosophy of science, sociology of science); General U.S. history after 1877.

Country of Expertise: United States, Brazil

Project title: The Growth and Distribution of Ecological Knowledge and Related Environmental Knowledge of the Amazon Watershed

Current Research Project:
The Amazon watershed is a transnational geographical entity. Knowledge of the watershed is even more broadly transnational, and is distributed across a variety of boundaries: corporate/proprietary, academic, governmental/institutional, etc. The purpose of this research is to identify the distribution of ecological knowledge of the watershed and related categories of knowledge (such as geomorphology, to suggest one example), and to do so in a historical context, the better to appreciate the growth of environmental knowledge.

Academic Background:
Ph.D., History of Science/Science Studies, University of California, San Diego, granted December 1993.

Selected Publications: