Distinguished Lecturer:
Gordon M. Patterson, Ph.D., C.Phil.

Professor of History, Florida Tech

"Waging War on the Insect Menace: Rutgers and the Origins of the American Anti-Mosquito Crusade"

When: Monday, June 22, 2009, 4 pm
Where:: Neilson Dining Hall

Gordon M. Patterson is a professor of history at Florida Tech, where he has taught since 1981. Before coming to Florida Tech, Patterson spent eight years in Europe working in Vienna and Heidelberg. He held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg. Professor Patterson has received six National Endowment for the Humanities awards. He holds two graduate-level degrees from UCLA (C.Phil and Ph.D.), as well as a B.S. from Northwestern University.

In April 2009, Rutgers University Press published Patterson's The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day.

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