Melissa M Parks
Biographic Data
| ID | 238203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa M Parks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Parks |
| SIGNATURE | PARKS M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7405-9422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Union Carbide’s “Hand in Things to Come”: Narrative Formations of a Culture of Toxification
Due to the booming U.S. chemical industry and the proliferation of new media, the mid-twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a distinct public vocabulary of chemistry. This vocabulary played a role in constituting U.S. consumer culture and establishing a narrative groundwork for upholding and shaping ideologies about progress, colonialism, and the value of U.S. corporate science – and the justification of corresponding large-scale environme…
Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century
Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window into how members of the public understand the ideas represented therein. In this rhetorical analysis, we analyze Philadelphia’s Science History Institute’s Witco Stamp Collection, which features 430 stamps from countries around the globe dating from 1910 to 1983, to identify how chemistry is…
Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts …
“No(t) camping”: Engaging intersections of housing, transportation, and environmental justice through critical praxis
The Environmental Justice working group took an engaged and intersectional approach, focusing on interconnections between affordable housing, transportation, and University of Nevada, Reno campus planning. The working group made three recommendations to advance local environmental justice commitments: (1) improve air quality and access to green spaces in campus development, (2) prioritize affordable housing and civic engagement, and (3) uphold st…
Explicating Ecoculture
Ecoculture is an emerging focal concept reflecting the inextricability of nature and culture. It is applicable to and employed in many disciplines, yet it is rarely defined, cited, or interrogated, causing potential inconsistencies in scholarly operationalization. In the present analysis, I use Steven H. Chaffee’s method of explication to develop an analytical review of ecoculture. I explore the primitive terms—ecology and culture—before assessin…
Ecocultural adjustment: Revisiting acculturation through a Peace Corps sojourn
This performative autoethnography examines extant theories of cultural adjustment through an ecocultural lens. I revisit my 26-month sojourn with the US Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, and my return to the United States in the context of sojourner acculturation, critiquing the often conventionally anthropocentric frame of cultural adjustment and reconceptualizing the process as ecocultural adjustment. Ecocultural adjustment theory calls attention …
Mapping Nature ’s scientist: The posthumous demarcation of Rosalind Franklin’s crystallographic data
Nature, the journal that in 1953 published James Watson and Francis Crick’s double-helix model of DNA, also published numerous pieces about crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Franklin’s coverage, however, was published largely after her death in 1958 and dealt with the fact that, without her knowledge, Franklin’s colleague Maurice Wilkins gave Watson her crystallographic images of DNA and thereby supplied him with the key data upon which his mod…
Cosmovisions and Farming Praxis: An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers along the Willamette River
Governments and environmental groups seeking to solve agri-environmental issues, many of which are localized, must understand how farmers choose production practices. In recent decades, agri-environmental discourse in the United States has identified two seemingly distinct styles of agriculture-"conventional" and "alternative." However, this dichotomy is not reliably observed nor predictive of a farm's local environmental impacts. Using a unique …
Public Perception of Female Fertility: Initial Fertility, Peak Fertility, and Age-Related Infertility Among U.S. Adults
Cosmovisions and Farming Praxis: An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers along the Willamette River
Governments and environmental groups seeking to solve agri-environmental issues, many of which are localized, must understand how farmers choose production practices. In recent decades, agri-environmental discourse in the United States has identified two seemingly distinct styles of agriculture-"conventional" and "alternative." However, this dichotomy is not reliably observed nor predictive of a farm's local environmental impacts. Using a unique …
Public Perception of Female Fertility: Initial Fertility, Peak Fertility, and Age-Related Infertility Among U.S. Adults
Mapping Nature ’s scientist: The posthumous demarcation of Rosalind Franklin’s crystallographic data
Nature, the journal that in 1953 published James Watson and Francis Crick’s double-helix model of DNA, also published numerous pieces about crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Franklin’s coverage, however, was published largely after her death in 1958 and dealt with the fact that, without her knowledge, Franklin’s colleague Maurice Wilkins gave Watson her crystallographic images of DNA and thereby supplied him with the key data upon which his mod…
Cosmovisions and Farming Praxis: An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers along the Willamette River
Governments and environmental groups seeking to solve agri-environmental issues, many of which are localized, must understand how farmers choose production practices. In recent decades, agri-environmental discourse in the United States has identified two seemingly distinct styles of agriculture-"conventional" and "alternative." However, this dichotomy is not reliably observed nor predictive of a farm's local environmental impacts. Using a unique …
“No(t) camping”: Engaging intersections of housing, transportation, and environmental justice through critical praxis
The Environmental Justice working group took an engaged and intersectional approach, focusing on interconnections between affordable housing, transportation, and University of Nevada, Reno campus planning. The working group made three recommendations to advance local environmental justice commitments: (1) improve air quality and access to green spaces in campus development, (2) prioritize affordable housing and civic engagement, and (3) uphold st…
Explicating Ecoculture
Ecoculture is an emerging focal concept reflecting the inextricability of nature and culture. It is applicable to and employed in many disciplines, yet it is rarely defined, cited, or interrogated, causing potential inconsistencies in scholarly operationalization. In the present analysis, I use Steven H. Chaffee’s method of explication to develop an analytical review of ecoculture. I explore the primitive terms—ecology and culture—before assessin…
Ecocultural adjustment: Revisiting acculturation through a Peace Corps sojourn
This performative autoethnography examines extant theories of cultural adjustment through an ecocultural lens. I revisit my 26-month sojourn with the US Peace Corps in Malawi, Africa, and my return to the United States in the context of sojourner acculturation, critiquing the often conventionally anthropocentric frame of cultural adjustment and reconceptualizing the process as ecocultural adjustment. Ecocultural adjustment theory calls attention …
Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts …
Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century
Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window into how members of the public understand the ideas represented therein. In this rhetorical analysis, we analyze Philadelphia’s Science History Institute’s Witco Stamp Collection, which features 430 stamps from countries around the globe dating from 1910 to 1983, to identify how chemistry is…
Union Carbide’s “Hand in Things to Come”: Narrative Formations of a Culture of Toxification
Due to the booming U.S. chemical industry and the proliferation of new media, the mid-twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a distinct public vocabulary of chemistry. This vocabulary played a role in constituting U.S. consumer culture and establishing a narrative groundwork for upholding and shaping ideologies about progress, colonialism, and the value of U.S. corporate science – and the justification of corresponding large-scale environme…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropocentrism (2 works) · Art history (2 works)