Erik M Conway

My C.V.

  • Books
    • W. Bernard Carlson and Erik M. Conway, eds., Electrical Conquest (in review.)
    • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, The Big Myth (Bloomsbury USA: February 2023).
    • Erik M. Conway, Donald K. Yeomans, Meg Rosenburg, A History of Near-Earth Objects Research (NASA: July 2022).
    • Erik M. Conway, Exploration and Engineering: JPL and the Quest for Mars, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).
    • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization: A View from the Future (Columbia University Press, 2014).
    • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury USA, 2010).
    • Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
    • Michael Reidy, Gary Kroll, and Erik M. Conway, Science and Exploration (ABC-Clio, 2007).
    • Blind Landings: Faith, Progress, and Nature in the Development of Aircraft Landing Aids, 1918-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
    • High Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945-1999 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
  • Research Articles
    • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, “From Anti-Government to Anti-Science: Why Conservatives Have Turned Against Science,” Daedalus (Fall 2022).
    • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, “The Magic of the Marketplace,” in Myth America, eds. Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer (NY: Basic Books, 2022).
    • Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway and Charlie Tyson, “How American Businessmen Made Us Believe that Free Enterprise was Indivisible from American Democracy,” in The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States, eds. W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
    • “Designing Mars Sample Return, From Viking to the Mars Science Laboratory,” Solar System Exploration at 50 Proceedings, 2022.
    • Erik M. Conway, “Simulation and Spacecraft Design: Engineering Mars Landings,” Technology and Culture, October 2015.
    • Erik M. Conway, “Bringing NASA Back to Earth,” Science and Technology in the Global Cold War, eds. Naomi Oreskes and John Krige, MIT Press, 2014.
    • Erik M. Conway, “The International Geophysical Year and Planetary Science,” in Making Polar Science Global, ed. Roger D. Launius, Palgrave McMillan, 2010.
    • Erik M. Conway, “Earth and Planetary Science: A Symbiotic Relationship?,” in NASA’s First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives, ed. Steven J. Dick, NASA SP-1010-4704, 2010, pp. 563-586.
    • Erik M. Conway, “Satellites and Security: Space in Service to Humanity,” in Societal Impact of Spaceflight, eds. Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, NASA SP-2007-4801, 2007, pp. 267-288.
    • Erik M. Conway and Mirella Flores, “Deep Space 1: A Revolution in Space Exploration,” Quest 14: 2 (2007), 41-51.
    • Erik M. Conway, “The World According to GARP: Scientific Internationalism and the Construction of Global Meteorology, 1961-1980,” Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, eds., Science in Uniform, Uniforms in Science: Historical Studies of American Military and Scientific Interactions (Scarecrow Press, 2007).
    • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, “Deny, Deny, Deny: How to Sow Confusion over Climate Change,” in Agnotology: The Social Construction of Ignorance, Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger, eds. (Stanford University Press, 2008).
    • Erik M. Conway, “Drowning in Data: Satellite Oceanography and Information Overload in the Earth Sciences,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 37:1 (2006), 127-153.
    • Hugh S. Gorman and Erik M. Conway, “Monitoring the Environment: Taking a Historical Perspective,” Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (2005) 106:1-10, DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-0755-0.
    • “Echoes in the Grand Canyon: Public Catastrophes and Technologies of Control,” History and Technology 20:2 (June 2004).
    • “The Politics of Blind Landing,” Technology and Culture (January 2001), 81-106.
    • “Simon Lake” and “Carl Lukas Norden,” biographical sketches in American National Biography, 1999.
  • Essays, Reviews, and Posters
    • “Trump’s Big Lie is Getting Him Impeached,” op-ed with Naomi Oreskes. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-09/impeachment-big-lie-donald-trump-republican-party-climate-change-tax-cuts
    • “Unlimited Information is Transforming Society,” Scientific American, September 2020 (with Naomi Oreskes).
    • The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Planetary Exploration, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary Science (forthcoming, 2020).
    • “Communicating climate change to a Suspicious Public: How best to explain what we know?” (with Randal K. Jackson). Poster ED33B-3510, AGU annual meeting 2014.
    • “Why Conservatives Turned Against Science,” The Chronicle Review, 9 November 2012 (With Naomi Oreskes)
    • “The Collapse of ‘Western’ Civilization: A View from the Future,” Daedalus 142:1, Winter 2013 (with Naomi Oreskes).
    • Scott Hubbard, “Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery,” Quest 19:3 (2012), 59.
    • “Climate in Context: A Review of Klima,” Metascience 2012, doi:1007/s11016-012-9695-9
    • “Perspectives on Global Warming and Merchants of Doubt,” Metascience 2011, doi:10.1007/s11016-011-9639-9 (with Naomi Oreskes).
    • H-Net Environment Review Response to “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,” 2011 (with Naomi Oreskes).
    • “Defeating the Merchants of Doubt,” Nature (10 June 2010), 686-687.
    • David A. Mindell, “Between Human and Machine,” Isis, 2008.
    • From Rockets to Spacecraft: Making JPL a Place for Planetary Science, Engineering and Science 70 (4), 2007, pp. 2-10.
    • William F. Ruddiman, “Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate,” Journal of the History of Biology, March 2007.
    • Samuel Walker, “Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective,” Environmental History, 2006.
    • Frank N. Laird “Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values,” Environmental History, April 2003.
    • Thomas Parramore, “First in Flight,” Technology and Culture, January 2003.
    • Janet Bednarek, “America’s Airports,” Technology and Culture, October 2002.
    • Michael H. Gorn, “Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at NACA and NASA,” Public History,
    • Johan Sanne, “Creating Safety in Air Traffic Control,” Technology and Culture, July 2001.