Connemara Doran

PhD, Harvard University

Historian of Science and Technology

Wedding website for my marriage to Christian Swayngim: https://withjoy.com/connemara-and-christian/welcome

Publications

Research Articles:

“Robert Vessot’s Gravity Probe A: Perfect a hammer, and the world looks like a nail,” chapter co-authored with David DeVorkin, in Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity, Brian C. Odom and Daniel Kennefick, eds.

“The Role of IUPAP in Shaping Metrological Practice: International Negotiation and Collaboration,” in Globalizing Physics: One Hundred Years of The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Jaume Navarro and Roberto Lalli, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

“Instrumentalizing and Visualizing the Cosmic First Light,” Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 36, 1 (April 2021): 167-192.

“Low-cost, High-risk Electricity and the Texas Polar Vortex,” IAEE Energy Forum (Fourth Quarter 2021): 48-51. 

“Poincaré’s mathematical creations in search of the ‘true relations of things’” in Ether and Modernity: The recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century, Jaume Navarro, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 45-66. 

“Poincaré’s Path to Uniformization,” in Uniformization, Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence, Calabi-Yau Manifolds, and Picard-Fuchs Equations, Lizhen Ji and Shing-Tung Yau, eds., Advanced Lectures in Mathematics 42 (Boston: International Press, 2018), 55-79.

Book Reviews:

“The Search for Dark Energy,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 51, 4 (Nov. 2020): 483-485. 

“Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race,” Nuncius 38, 1 (February 2023): 220-222.