McConnell

Contact Information

cmcconnell@fullerton.edu
Voice: 657-278-3935
Dept: 657-278-2794

Craig  McConnell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Liberal Studies

Degrees

2000, Ph.D. History of Science, University of Wisconsin

Research Areas

Science in literature and science in popular culture. I am finishing a study of cosmology from the 1950s to the 1970s in which I have shown that popular and religious discussions of cosmology had an impact on subsequent technical developments in the field.  I am starting a project on the public reaction to the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 and the ensuing interactions between the space race and the cold war.