Charles
H. Smith
Professor Emeritus, Western Kentucky University
Education
Services Offered as Science Librarian
Research and Personal Interests
Professional Affiliations
Selected Print Publications
Selected Honors and Grants
Most Unusual Achievement
Web Materials by Charles Smith
Education
- B.A. (1972),
Geology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
- M.A. (1980),
Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- Ph.D. (1984),
Geography (Emphasis: Biogeography; Minor: History & Philosophy of
Science), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
- M.L.S. (1995),
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Services
Offered as Science Librarian
As of 1 July 2018, retired from Western Kentucky University, rank of Professor Emeritus.
Research
and Personal Interests
My own research
has primarily involved bibliography and bibliometrics, collection
development, history and philosophy of science (especially the nineteenth
century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace), biogeography and biodiversity,
evolutionary theory, music history, and general systems theory. I also have long-standing interests
in baseball and the paranormal. My favorite foods include
the basics: good coffee, orange juice, and bread. The greatest influences
on my life have come from my parents and, in no particular order, Lou
Gehrig, Bert Jansch, Carl Nielsen, Benedict de Spinoza,
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Alfred Russel Wallace. I have also recently become an
Annie Oakley fan--read up on her; you'll be impressed!
Professional Affiliations
I am or recently was a
member of the International Biogeography Society, The Linnean Society
of London, The Society for the History
of Natural History, The Scientific and Medical Network, the Kentucky Library
Association, and the American Society for Engineering Education. For about ten years I sat
on the Editorial Board of the journal Science & Technology Libraries.
Free Online Fiction
Selected
Academic Publications
- "Confessions of a 'Wallace Enthusiast'" (May 2023). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 26. 12 pp.
- "Wallace and the 'Physical Environment'" (April 2023). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 25. 7 pp.
- "Evolution and Biogeography, and the Systems Measurement of Mammalian Biotas" (Charles H. Smith, Patrick Georges & Ngoc Nguyen; 24 March 2023). Life (MDPI) 13(4), 873 ; https://doi.org/10.3390/life13040873 .
- "Wallace at 200: Potential Subjects for Student Theses" (December 2022). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 24. 7 pp.
- "The Jersey Devil, and Friends" (December 2022). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 23. 8 pp.
- "Stumbling Blocks to an Understanding of Wallace's Worldview" (August 2022). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 22. 9 pp.
- "Wallace and the Doorway to the Universe" (May 2022). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 21. 23 pp.
- "Did Darwin and Wallace 'Coauthor' the 1858 Communication on Natural Selection?" (April 2022). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 20. 5 pp.
- "Social Evolution's Useful Idiots" (February 2022). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 19. 18 pp.
- book review (October 2021) of Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art Nature and Culture by Eleanor Jones Harvey. Archives of Natural History 48(2): 416.
- "Wallace on the Balance of Nature" (August 2021). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 18. 13 pp.
- "More on the South Asian Connection" (April 2021). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 17. 4 pp.
- "The Flexible Wallace" (April 2021). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 16. 11 pp.
- "Wallace's Many 'Hats': What Should We Call Him?" (January 2021). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 15. 7 pp.
- "Discussion on 'A. R. Wallace in the Light of Historical Method' by John van Wyhe" (Charles H. Smith, George Beccaloni, James D. Williams & Derek Partridge; 2020). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 103: 119-124.
- "Background for Wallace's 1845 Kington Essay" (November 2020). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 14. 8 pp.
- "Wallace on Prayer" (November 2020). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 13. 7 pp.
- "How Good was Wallace's Memory?" (November 2020). Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 12. 10 pp.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace and the Notion of Final Causes in Evolution" (2012/2020).
- The Real Alfred Russel Wallace: Essays on an Outside-the-Box Thinker. (2013/2020).
- "Biography as a Two-Edged Sword." (published online 19 June 2020; in print November 2020). Metascience 29(3): 417-419.
- Charles H. Smith: A Direct-Line Ancestry, Since Colonial Times (2020).
- "Alfred Russel Wallace’s 'Die Permanenz der Continente und Oceane'" (Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa & Matthias Glaubrecht, Fall 2019). Archives of Natural History 46(2): 265-282.
- An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion (edited by Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa & David Collard; June 2019). Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. 439 pp.
- "The Early Evolution of Wallace as a Thinker" (June 2019). In Smith, Costa
& Collard, eds., An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press): 11-40.
- "Wallace and the 'Preter-Normal'" (June 2019). In Smith, Costa
& Collard, eds., An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press): 41-66.
- "Physical Geography, Glaciology and Geology" (June 2019). In Smith, Costa
& Collard, eds., An Alfred Russel Wallace Companion (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press): 275-297.
- "Spinoza on Miracles" [2019].
- "Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 9: The South Asian Connection" (Charles H. Smith, Sahotra Sarkar & Nirmali Wijegoonawardana; 6 March 2019).
- "Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 8: Wallace's Earliest Exposures to the Writings of Alexander von Humboldt" (October 2018). Archives of Natural History 45(2): 366-369. [June 2021: unreduced version]
- "Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 7: Wallace, Bates, and John Plant: The Leicester Connection" (Charles H. Smith & Jennifer Walklate; October 2017). The Linnean 33(2): 18-24.
- "Wallace and Incipient Structures: A World of 'More Recondite' Influence" (2016). In Indraneil Das & Andrew Alek Tuen, eds., Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia (Cham, Switzerland: Springer): 3-14.
- "Did Wallace's Ternate Essay and Letter on Natural Selection Come as a Reply to Darwin's Letter of 22 December 1857? A Brief Review." (published online November 2015; in print June 2016). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(2): 421-425.
- "'In' or 'As' Space?: A Model of Complexity, with Philosophical, Simulatory, and Empirical Ramifications" (30 September 2015). International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics 10(3): 233-241 / In G. Rzevski & C. A. Brebbia, Conference Chairmen, Complex Systems 2015: International Conference on Complex Systems in Business, Administration, Science and Engineering (WIT Press, Ashurst, U.K.): 55-66.
- "Statistical Tests for 'Related Records' Search Results" (Charles H. Smith, Patrick Georges & Ngoc Nguyen; published online 2 June 2015; in print December 2015). Scientometrics 105(3): 1665-1677.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 6: More on the Mailing Date of the Ternate Essay to Darwin" (April 2015). The Linnean 31(1): 26-27.
- "Similarity Indices for 500 Classical Music Composers: Inferences from Personal Musical Influences and 'Ecological' Measures" (Charles H. Smith & Patrick Georges; 2015). Empirical Studies of the Arts 33(1): 61-94.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace and the Road to Natural Selection, 1844 to 1858" (published online November 2014; in print May 2015). Journal of the History of Biology 48(2): 279-300.
- Dear Sir: Sixty-Nine Years of Alfred Russel Wallace Letters to the Editor (edited by Charles H. Smith & Kelsey Patterson; 30 November 2014). Manchester, U.K.: Siri Scientific Press. 400 pp.
- "Composer Similarities through 'The Classical Music Navigator': Similarity Inference from Composer Influences" (Charles H. Smith & Patrick Georges; 2014). Empirical Studies of the Arts 32(2): 205-229.
- "Wallace,
Alfred Russel" (3 September 2014). In Thomas
Hockey, ed., The
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 2nd Ed. (New York: Springer),
Vol. 4: 2282-2285.
- "Wallace, Darwin, and Ternate 1858" (20 June 2014). Notes & Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 68(2): 165-170.
- "'In Space or 'As Space': Spatial Autocorrelation Properties of the Earth's Interior" (April 2014). International Journal of Geosciences 5(4): 375-382.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 5: Just How Well Known Was Wallace in His Own Time?" (April 2014). The Linnean 30(1): 27-30.
- "Wallace in the Malay Archipelago" (book review; December 2013). BioScience 63(12): 982-984.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace's World of Final Causes" (December 2013). Theory in Biosciences 132(4): 239-249.
- "Wallace, Alfred R."
(November 2013). In R. Jon McGee & Richard L. Warms, eds., Theory in Social
and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (Los Angeles: SAGE Publications), Vol. 2: 903-905.
- Enquête sur un Aventurier de l'Esprit: Le Véritable Alfred Russel Wallace (7 November 2013). Paris: Editions de l'Evolution. 399 pp.
- "A Further Look at the 1858 Wallace–Darwin Mail Delivery Question" (March 2013). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108(3): 715-718.
- Alfred Russel Wallace's 1886-1887 Travel Diary; The North American Lecture Tour (edited by Charles H. Smith & Megan Derr; 1 January 2013). Manchester, U.K.: Siri Scientific Press. 258 pp.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace e a Noção de Causas Finais na Evolução" (October 2012). In A. C. Regner & A. Naves, organizers, Ecos de Darwin (Editora da UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, Brasil): 155-181.
- "'In Space' or 'As Space'?: A New Model" (Charles H. Smith & Megan Derr, August 2012). Life (MDPI) 2(3): 243-254.
- "Alfred Russel Wallace
and the Elimination of the Unfit" (June 2012). Journal
of Biosciences (Indian
Academy of Sciences) 37(2): 203-205.
- "Natural
Selection: A Concept in Need of Some Evolution?" (January/February
2012). Complexity 17(3): 8-17.
- "'What Lives Where,
and Why': Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Field of Biogeography" (December
2011). Science
& Technology Libraries 30(4): 307-325.
- "Alfred Russel
Wallace Notes 4: Contributions to The Garden, 1875-1912" (October
2011). Archives
of Natural History 38(2): 351-353.
- "Alfred Russel
Wallace Notes 3: Two Early Publications" (October 2011). Archives
of Natural History 38(2): 349-351.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace Notes 2: The Spelling 'Russel', and Wallace's Date
of Birth" (Charles H. Smith et al., October 2010). Archives
of Natural History 37(2): 351-354.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace, Geographer" (4 May 2010). Geography Compass 4(5):
388-401.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace Notes 1: Authorship of Two Early Works" (Charles
H. Smith et al., April 2010). Archives
of Natural History 37(1): 167-169.
- Natural Selection
and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace (paperback
edition; edited by Charles H. Smith & George Beccaloni, 2010).
Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
- "What's
in a Word? On Reading--and Misreading--Alfred Russel Wallace" (January
2009). In Survival of the Fittest; Celebrating the 150th Anniversary
of the Darwin-Wallace Theory of Evolution (The Linnean Special
Issue No. 9): 35-44.
- Natural Selection
and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace (edited
by Charles H. Smith & George Beccaloni, 2008). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press.
- "Wallace, Spiritualism,
and Beyond: 'Change,' or 'No Change'?" (2008). In Charles H. Smith
& George Beccaloni, eds., Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual
Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University
Press): 391-423.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace, Journalist" (October 2008). Archives of Natural
History 35(2): 203-207.
- "Introduction"
(June 2008). To Anne Cluysenaar, Batu-Angas; Envisioning Nature With
Alfred Russel Wallace [a collection of her poems] (Bridgen, Wales:
Seren): 10-14.
- "'Hussel,'
'Bussel' and 'Kussel,' Or, Using Google Books to Stalk the Elusive Alfred
Russel Wallace" (Spring 2008). Kentucky Libraries 72(2):
8-11.
- "Wallace,
Alfred Russel" (2008). In Noretta Koertge, ed., New Dictionary
of Scientific Biography (Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons), Vol.
7: 224-228.
- "Editorial Rant: Unjust
Tiered Pricing Formulas" (2007). Science & Technology Libraries
27(4): 89-91.
- "Meta-Assessment
of Online Research Guides Usage" (2007). The Reference Librarian
47(1): 89-103.
- "Wallace,
Alfred Russel" (2007). In Thomas Hockey, ed., The Biographical
Encyclopedia of Astronomers (New York: Springer), Vol. 2: 1191-1193.
- "Reflections
on Wallace" (7 September 2006). Nature 443(7107): 33-34.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace: Past and Future" (September 2005). Journal of
Biogeography 32(9): 1509-1515.
- "Wallace's
Unfinished Business" (November 2004). Complexity 10(2) :
25-32.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace on Man: A Famous 'Change of Mind'--Or Not?" (2004). History
and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26(2): 257-270.
- "Wallace, Alfred
Russel (1823-1913)" (2004). In H. C. G. Matthew & Brian Harrison,
eds., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, U.K.:
Oxford University Press), Vol. 56: 920-927.
- "Alfred Russel
Wallace: A Capsule Biography" (30 June 2004). Southern Lepidopterists'
News 26(2): 46-57.
- "Further
Additions to the Bibliography of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)"
(April 2004). Archives of Natural History 31(1): 1-5.
- Alfred Russel
Wallace: Writings on Evolution 1843-1912 (edited by Charles H. Smith,
2004). Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press. 3 vols.
- "Comment:
Alfred Russel Wallace, Societal Planning and Environmental Agenda"
(September 2003). Environmental Conservation 30(3): 215-218.
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace (1823-1913)" (2002). In W. J. Mander & Alan
P. F. Sell, eds., Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers
(Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes Press), Vol. 2: 1156-1160.
- "The
Nationality of a Naturalist" (1 March 2002). Science 295(5560):
1644-1645.
- "Biodiversity:
The World of Life" (May 2001). Choice 38(9): 1565-1580.
- "Using a
Lens Stereoscope for the First Time" (November 2000). Journal
of Geoscience Education 48(5): 595-596.
- Biodiversity
Studies: A Bibliographic Review (2000). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
461 pages.
- "Additions to
the Bibliography of Alfred Russel Wallace" (June 1999). Archives
of Natural History 26(2): 273-277.
- "Biodiversity:
A Selector's Guide to Monographic Works" (1999). Science & Technology
Libraries 18(1): 25-57.
- "'With Eyes on
the Prize': Identifying Award-Winning Books in Science and Technology"
(1998). College & Undergraduate Libraries 5(2): 115-129.
- "The Paranormal:
A Selected Bibliography of Serials and Reference Works, With Commentary"
(1997). Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 16(1): 11-46.
- "'With Eyes on
the Prize III': Identifying Award-Winning Books in Science and Technology"
(Charles H. Smith & Marvin D. Leavy, 1997). College & Undergraduate
Libraries 4(1): 29-40.
- Alfred
Russel Wallace on Spiritualism, Man & Evolution: An Analytical Essay
(1992/1999). Torrington, CT. 72 pages.
- Alfred Russel
Wallace; An Anthology of His Shorter Writings (edited by Charles
H. Smith, 1991). Oxford, New York & Tokyo: Oxford University Press.
551 pages.
- "Historical
Biogeography: Geography as Evolution, Evolution as Geography" (1989).
New Zealand Journal of Zoology 16(4): 773-785.
- "Identifying
the Contemporary Political Culture of the American Frontier: The Libertarian
Party's Vote in 1980" (Fred M. Shelley, Charles H. Smith & George
N. Smith, Fall 1987). Geographical Perspectives No. 60: 36-42.
- "A General Approach
to the Study of Spatial Systems. II. Two Examples of Application" (1986).
International Journal of General Systems 12(4): 385-400.
- "A General Approach
to the Study of Spatial Systems. I. The Relational Representation of
Measurable Attributes" (1986). International Journal of General Systems
12(4): 359-384.
- "A
Contribution to the Geographical Interpretation of Biological Change"
(1986). Acta Biotheoretica 35(4): 229-278.
- "Alfred Russel
Wallace 1823-1913" (1984). In Geographers Biobibliographical Studies
(London: Mansell), Volume 8: 125-133.
- "Guidelines and
an Illustration of the Use of Ecological Data for Seeking Clues of Excess
Risk" (Michael Greenberg, Mark Burrington & Charles H. Smith, 1984).
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 18(4): 293-299.
- The
Dynamics of Animal Distribution: An Evolutionary/Ecological Model
(1984). Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Geography, University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana. 242 pp.
- "A Method for
Studying Intercorrelated Circulation Patterns in Library Systems" (March
1984). Journal of the American Society for Information Science
35(2): 118-121.
- "A
System of World Mammal Faunal Regions. II. The Distance Decay Effect
upon Inter-regional Affinities" (November 1983). Journal of Biogeography
10(5): 467-482.
- "A
System of World Mammal Faunal Regions. I. Logical and Statistical Derivation
of the Regions" (September 1983). Journal of Biogeography 10(6):
455-466.
- "Areographic
Representation of Faunal Characteristics Through a 'Second-Order' Relational
Approach" (August 1983). Evolutionary Theory 6(5): 225-232.
- "Spatial
Trends in Canadian Snowshoe Hare, Lepus americanus, Population
Cycles" (1983). Canadian Field-Naturalist 97(2): 151-160.
- "A
Spatial Analysis of Wildlife's Ten-Year Cycle" (Charles H. Smith &
Jerry M. Davis, January 1981). Journal of Biogeography 8(1):
27-35.
Selected
Highlights, Honors and Grants while at Bowling Green
- invited speaker at the symposium 'The Super Story Series: Superhuman Evolution' organized by the Esalen Institute Center for Theory and Research, Big Sur, California, on 17-22 July 2022
- as of 1 July 2018, retired from Western Kentucky University
- included in the 2018 (72nd) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- delivered an invited presentation, all expenses covered, at the annual Newberry Library-hosted C. Frederick Kittle Symposium on Arthur Conan Doyle (7 October 2017)
- share with the editors and other contributors to the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers the biennial 2017 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy
- recipient of WKU QTag grants, 2015/16 and 2016/17
- included in the 2016 (70th) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- included in the 2016-2017 (12th) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in Science and Engineering
- recipient of
the 2015 University Libraries WKU Award
for Outstanding Research/Creativity (March 2015)
- included in the
2015 (69th) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- invited to give a paper, all expenses covered, at a meeting in Sarawak in November 2013 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace (did not attend, but prepared a taped lecture shown at the meeting; this appears in the conference proceedings)
- delivered an invited paper, all expenses covered, at an American Museum of Natural History conference in November 2013 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace
- recipient of $29960. Templeton Foundation
grant to improve access to Alfred Russel Wallace resources (September
2013 to May 2016)
- accepted an invitation to prepare a featured essay commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace for a special issue of the journal Theory in Biosciences, published in the November 2013 issue
- delivered an invited paper, all expenses covered, at a Royal Society of London Discussion Meeting in October 2013 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace
- recipient of a 2013 President's Call to Service Award, national recognition for more than six thousand hours of lifetime volunteer service (April 2013)
- delivered an invited ninety-minute paper, all expenses covered, at a conference at UNAM in Mexico City commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace (8 March 2013)
- invited to prepare a featured essay commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace for a special issue of the journal Frontiers in Biogeography (invitation October 2012)
- included in the
2011-2012 11th edition of Marquis' Who's
Who in Science and Engineering
- $6350. WKU RCAP
grant-funded research trip to London to research Alfred Russel Wallace sources (August-September
2011)
- included in the
2011 (65th) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- finalist for
a Distinguished Professorship at WKU (informed December 2010)
- delivered an invited ninety-minute paper, all expenses covered, at the annual meeting of the Brazilian Society for the History
and Philosophy of Biology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (10 August 2010)
- delivered an invited two-hour colloquium lecture, all expenses covered, on Wallace's model of natural selection at the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (8 August 2010)
- recipient of
the 2010 University Libraries/Information Technologies WKU Award
for Outstanding Research/Creativity (March 2010)
- my
book Natural Selection and Beyond... released
as a paperback edition, March 2010
- featured (a second
time) in the Spring 2010 issue of WKU's The Western Scholar
- delivered an invited two-hour
talk, all expenses covered, at a four-day Darwinism
conference at UNISINOS, near Porto Alegre in Brazil (10 September 2009)
- my website The
Alfred Russel Wallace Page included as a 'Best of Free Reference
2008' selection by Library Journal (15 April 2009)
- am subject of
the monthly featured cover story in the local news and arts publication The
Amplifier (March 2009)
- included in the
2009 (63rd) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- in February 2009
invited to go on television to take part in a segment on Darwin
and Wallace on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," but
the producers ultimately decide not to go through with the spot
- recipient of
the 2008 Margie Helm Faculty Award for Outstanding Performance,
University Libraries (December 2008)
- delivered an invited
talk, all expenses covered, at the Linnean Society in London at a conference
celebrating the double occasion of the 150th anniversary of the
first presentation of the theory of natural selection in 1858, and
the publication of my Oxford University Press book Natural Selection
and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace the
same month (22 November 2008)
- elected a Fellow
of the Linnean Society of London (9 October 2008)
- interviewed by
the journal
The Scientist and the Communications Office at Princeton University
for usable quotations regarding the work of Princeton scientists Raj
Chakrabarti and Herschel Rabitz on protein evolution (September 2008)
- asked to contribute
a 1200-word
"sidebar" essay for one of the chapters of the upcoming eighth
edition of a popular biogeography textbook (September 2008)
- included in the
2008 (62nd) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- on 30 June 2008
invited to do an eight-minute interview segment on NPR's "Morning
Edition" (concerning the 150th anniversary of the first presentation
of the theory of natural selection in 1858), but the spot ultimately
goes to someone else (I miss out by five minutes when I see the
invitation message a bit too late to respond in time!)
- The Wikipedia
people create a "Charles
H. Smith" page on their service (May 2007)
- included in the
2007 (61st) edition of Marquis' Who's Who in America
- my website The
111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American Folk Music Tradition included
as a 'Best Websites of 2006' selection by Library Journal,
May 2007
- submit successful
Priority Initiative Award application for the Dept. of Library Public
Services (Fall 2006)
- placed a first-author
article in Nature (7 September 2006)
- invited keynote
speaker at the second biennial meeting of the International Biogeography
Society (held in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, January 4-8, 2005)
- advanced to Professor
(30 April 2004)
- recipient of
a ScientificAmerican.com Sci/Tech Web Award 2003 (for one of the
five best history or biography of sci/tech-related websites of the
year) for my website The Alfred Russel Wallace Page
- recipient of
the Golden Web Award for my websites The Alfred Russel Wallace
Page
and The Classical Music Navigator in 2001, and my websites
Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution and Diversity Studies:
To 1950 and Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia
in 2002
- featured in
the second issue of WKU's The Western Scholar, Spring 2001
- honored by University
Libraries for work in science bibliography with reception, Spring
2001
- recipient of
the 2001 Oberly Award (for best bibliography published in the agricultural
or natural sciences, 1999-2001) for my book Biodiversity Studies:
A Bibliographic Review; this work also included in Library
Journal's 'Best Reference Sources 2000' list
- advanced to Associate
Professor with tenure (19 May 2000)
- recipient of
the 1999 University Libraries/Information Technologies WKU Outstanding
Research/Creativity Award (24 March 1999)
- WKU Faculty
Scholarship Grants: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2009
- began working
at WKU (as "Science Librarian") (1 March 1995)
Most
Unusual Achievement
On an otherwise
ordinary day in the spring of 1966, while pitching in a junior varsity
high school baseball game, I picked off two runners in a row who had
reached first base on consecutive at-bats. Neither was caught in the
act of a steal attempt, mind you--they just weren't able to beat the
tag, returning to first. And I am right-handed, not left-handed: considering
that, this must be almost as rare a feat as taking part in an
unassisted triple play!
Web
Materials Created by Charles Smith
I have written and/or
compiled and maintain the following materials, available on the World
Wide Web:
Alfred
Russel Wallace-Related Materials:
- Alfred Russel Wallace Notes (notes and essays concerning Alfred Russel Wallace)
- The
Alfred Russel Wallace Page (extensive materials
by and about the extraordinary English evolutionist, naturalist, and
social critic, who lived from 1823-1913)
- The
Once and Future Wallace, or, Evolutionary Theorizing in the Manner
of Alfred Russel Wallace (a website dwelling on my
revisionist views of Wallace's thought, including biogeographic and
systems theory modeling based on "final causes" thinking)
- Wallace Online (John van Wyhe, Charles H. Smith, et al.)
- Alfred
Russel Wallace on Spiritualism, Man, and Evolution: An Analytical
Essay (a short monographic essay)
- "Alfred
Russel Wallace on Evolution: A Change of Mind?" (a
symposium presentation)
- "It's
on the Web--Or, When is a 'Russel' a 'Russel'?" (an
essay)
Natural
History and History-Related Databases:
Music-Related
Materials:
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