Dr MARIONNE CRONIN

Dr MARIONNE CRONIN The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science Research Fellow work +44 (0)1224 273020 pref marionne.cronin@abdn.ac.uk Blog: Histories of Technology http://historiesoftechnology.blogspot.co.uk/ pref G 13, Edward Wright Annex, Dunbar Street, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, AB243QY

Research Fellow

BA, MA, PhD

Personal Details

Telephone:	+44 (0)1224 273020
Email:	marionne.cronin@abdn.ac.uk
Personal website:	Blog: Histories of Technology http://historiesoftechnology.blogspot.co.uk/
Address:	G 13, Edward Wright Annex, Dunbar Street, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, AB243QY

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Biography

PhD in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2006, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2001, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

MA in Philosophy, 1999, York University, Toronto, Canada

BA (Honours) in Communication, Culture, and Information Technology (Science and Technology Studies), 1998, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

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Research Interests

Material practices of northern colonialism; Imagined northern geographies and landscapes; History of technology; History of exploration - particularly heroic exploration narratives; History of aviation; Canadian history - interwar and northern history; Environmental history

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Current Research

I am interested in the relationship between technology and place in the circumpolar world, particularly the role of technology in the practice of polar exploration, and I have a special interest in the history of aviation in the circumpolar world. My current research examines the polar flights of Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd in the 1920s and 1930s as a way of exploring how the introduction of aircraft influenced our images of polar exploration, polar environments, and polar heroes. More broadly, I am interested in how the technologies we use to move through northern environments leave traces on our ideas about 'the north'.

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

Cronin, M. (2011). 'Vikings of the Air: Polar Heroes in the Age of Polar Aviation'. Scientia Canadensis, vol 34.
Cronin, M. (2009). 'Fading Away: Technological Decline in Canadian Aviation'. Scientia Canadensis, vol 32, no. 2, pp. 1-20.
Cronin, M. (2007). 'Northern Visions: Aerial Surveying and the Canadian Mining Industry, 1919-1928'. Technology and Culture, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 303-330.
[Online] DOI: 10.1353/tech.2007.0063

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

Cronin, M. (in press). 'The Mapping of Antarctica'. Imago Mundi.
Cronin, M. (2009). 'White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagnation'. The Northern Review, vol 31, no. Fall.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

Cronin, M. 'Shaped by the Land: Searching for the Ideal Plane'. S Bocking & B Martin (eds), in: Perspectives on the Environmental History of Northern Canada. University of Calgary Press.
Cronin, M. (in press). 'The Landscape of Exploration: Renegotiating images of the Arctic in the age of polar exploration'. D Jorgensen, FA Jorgensen & S Sorlin (eds), in: Northscapes: The Making of Northern Environments. UBC Press.

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