Einstein and Relativity
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009 hardcover), xix + 464 pp. (483 pp.).
Reviewed in: Choice 47, December 2009, p. 1; Contemporary Physics 52:3, 2011, p. 258, Physics in Perspective 12:2, June 2010, pp. 236-238; American Mathematical Society MathSciNet, 2012, p. 1; Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 41:1, winter 2011, pp. 112-122; Isis, 101:3, September 2010, pp. 633-635; Metascience, 21:1 March 2012, pp. 131-134; Science News, 176:5, August 2009, p. 30. Other Academic Praise: The Best Writing on Mathematics (Princeton University Press 2011); Historia Mathematica 38, 2011, p. 575; YBP Library Services, 2010, pp. 1-2; SciTech Book News, August 2009, p. 1; ShelfLife@Texas, October 2009, p. 1; Zentralblatt MATH (Germany), 2010, p. 1.
“The Quiet Doctor Einstein”
with Thomas Palaima, Athenaeum, 2024
“Discovery and Invention: Conceptual Origins of Einstein’s Relativity”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 209-290.
“Kinematic Subtleties in Einstein’s First Derivation of the Lorentz Transformations”
American Journal of Physics 72, No. 6 (June 2004), 790-798.
“Text and Equations: Elements of Einstein’s Kinematics”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 291-361.
“Scientific Definitions: The Concepts of Space and Time”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 168-207.
“Critical History: The Algebra of Motion”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 362-418.
“Ritz, Einstein, and the Emission Hypothesis”
Physics in Perspective 6, No. 1 (April 2004), 4-28.
“A Myth about the Speed of Light”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 172-192.
“Conventions and Inertial Reference Frames”
American Journal of Physics 73, No. 5 (May 2005), 452-454.
“Review: Concepts of Simultaneity: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond, by Max Jammer”
Physics Today, Vol. 60, No. 8 (August 2007), 58-59.
“The Secret of Einstein’s Creativity?”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 216-228.
“Did Einstein Believe in God?”
Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 164-171.
“Was Einstein Really Religious?”
Not Even Past, April 11, 2012, 3 pages. https://notevenpast.org/was-einstein-really-religious-0/
“The Myriad Pieces of Einstein’s Remains”
Essay Review of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vols. 1 to 12, by John Stachel, Robert Schulmann, Diana Kormos Buchwald, et. al.,” Annals of Science, Vol. 68, No. 2 (published online July 2010; published in print April 2011), 267-280.
“Dating Albert Einstein”
in Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research, ed. Bruce Joshua Miller (St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2014), 48-72.
“Relativity”
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter N. Stearns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
“Field Theories”
by A. Martínez and S. S. Schweber, in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. M. Horowitz, Vol. 2 (Charles Scribner’s Sons / Thomson Gale, 2005), 831-834.
“Einstein and the Clock Towers of Bern”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 164-171.
“Material History and Imaginary Clocks: Poincaré, Einstein, and Galison on Simultaneity”
Physics in Perspective 6, No. 2 (June 2004), 31-48.
“Railways and the Roots of Relativity: Review of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps, by Peter Galison,”
Physics World 16, No. 11 (November 2003), 51.
“The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty, by Robert Crease and Alfred Goldhaber,”
American Journal of Physics, Vol. 83, No. 6 (2015), 573-575.
“The Questionable Inventions of the Clever Dr. Einstein”
Essay Review of Jósef Illy’s The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions, in Metascience, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2014), 49-55.
“Revisiting the History of Relativity”
Essay Review of Richard Staley’s Einstein’s Generation,
in Metascience, Vol. 20 (2011), 53-73.
“There’s No Pain in the FitzGerald Contraction, Is There?”
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 38 (2007), 209-215.
“Big Picture: Rise of a Neglected Science”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 1-37.
“Where to Begin? Invisible Causes or Visible Motions”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 38-66.
“Reply to Hubert Goenner”
Martinez Writings (August, 2011), pp. 1-14, http://www.martinezwritings.com/m/Goenner.html
“Reply to Suman Seth”
Martinez Writings (July 2011), pp. 1-5, http://www.martinezwritings.com/m/Seth.html
“Reply to Hans C. Ohanian”
Martinez Writings (June 2011), pp. 1-17, http://www.martinezwritings.com/m/Ohanian.html
“Review: Einstein’s Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius, by Hans C. Ohanian”
The Historian, Vol. 72, No. 3 (September 2010), 722-723.
“The Travelling Physicist: review of Einstein on the Road, by Josef Eisinger,”
in Physics World, Vol. 25, No. 4 (April 2012), 3-4.
“Science Myth-Busters”
review of Ronald L. Numbers, ed., Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion; John Waller, Einstein’s Luck: The Truth About Some of the Greatest Scientific Discoveries; and Tony Rothman, Everything is Relative, and Other Fables from Science and Technology, in Not Even Past, October, 2011.
“Review: Einstein’s Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution, by Richard Staley”
Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 41 (2010), 366-367.
“Review: Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, by John Rigden”
Physics Today, Vol. 59, No. 3 (March 2006), 64-65.
“Review: Einstein from ‘B’ to ‘Z,’ by John Stachel”
Physics in Perspective, Vol. 5, No 3 (September 2003), 352-354.
“G: Relative Genius,” Radiolab episode, June 28, 2019.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/g-relative-genius
15 Minute History: Episode 117: “Albert Einstein – Separating Man from Myth,” February 8, 2019. https://15minutehistory.org/2019/02/08/episode-117-albert-einstein-separating-man-from-myth/
“Popular Myths about the Famous Mr. Einstein,” 130th Anniversary of the History Department, Garrison Hall, UT Austin, November 10, 2018.
“Einstein’s Path to the Relativity of Time,” College of Liberal Arts / College of Natural Sciences, Honors Programs, UT Austin, October 16, 2013.
“How History Helped Einstein in Special Relativity,” American Physical Society, Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 15, 2013. http://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=10788
“Einstein, Relativity and Myths,” Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, UT Austin, October 18, 2012. http://youtu.be/srXCfnpBjd0
“Einstein’s Path to the Relativity of Time,” College of Liberal Arts / College of Natural Sciences, Honors Programs, UT Austin, October 17, 2012.
“A Crisis in Physics and its Roots in Post-Revolutionary Paris,” Gastcolloquium, Instituut voor Geschiedenis en Grondslagen, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 17, 2010.
“Secrets and Myths: Einstein’s Path to Special Relativity,” Physics Colloquium for Students and Faculty, UT Austin, John A. Wheeler Lecture Hall, September 22, 2010.
“Albert Einstein and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” UT LAMP (Learning Activities for Mature People) lecture, Thomson Conference Center, Austin, February 2, 2010.
“De Galileo a Einstein: Paradojas de la Luz,” 4to Centenario de los Descubrimientos de Galileo, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 19 March 2009.
“From Ampère’s Kinematics to Einstein’s Relativity, in the HSS session: “Divergent Struggles in the Evolution of Relativity,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 7, 2008.
“A Crisis in Science and its Roots in Modern France,” Modern Studies Group, Blanton Museum, UT Austin, March 28, 2008.
“Tracing Back from Relativity to Developmental Psychology” History Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, January 17, 2007.
“Subtractive Talk: Writing about Einstein in 1905 (after the 2005 Commotion has Finally Died Down)” Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, April 21, 2006.
“La Educación como la quería Einstein,” Simposio Centenario de la Relatividad: Obra de Einstein y sus Implicaciones, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, March 29, 2005.
“Patent Disagreements in the Histories of Special Relativity” HGR7. Seventh International Conference on the History of General Relativity, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Fundación Orotava, Tenerife, Canarias, March 10, 2005.
“Creative Moment: Making Special Relativity” Einstein Centennial Event, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, and, Center for Einstein Studies, Boston University, Boston, December 6, 2004.
“Recent Controversies in the History of Einstein’s Relativity” Humanities and Social Sciences Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, October 23, 2004.
“Conventional Quantities and Possible Measurements” Philosophy of Physics Group,
Boston University, Boston, Mass. April 28, 2004.
“Classifying Kinematics: My Science is More Fundamental than Yours!” Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, at M.I.T. Cambridge, Mass. May 7, 2002.
“An Overview of Nineteenth Century Kinematics,” Laws of Motion Group at M.I.T.
(George Smith, Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Jim Voelkel, Mordechai Feingold, Andrew Janiak, Manolis Patiniotis). Cambridge, Mass. December 4, 2001.
“Origins of Special Relativity in Electrodynamics, Optics, and Kinematics” University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. April 17, 2001.
“Ten Years to Einstein’s Relativity” website describing Albert Einstein’s path to creating his special theory of relativity, including a collection of 172 photographs of people, places, and documents, with links to dozens of primary source documents and websites. http://www.martinezwritings.com/m/Kinematics6.html.
Einstein’s Wife: Mileva Marić
“The Cult of the Quiet Wife”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 193-205.
http://www.martinezwritings.com/m/ScienceSecrets.html
“Handling Evidence in History: The Case of Einstein’s Wife”
School Science Review, Vol. 86, No. 316 (March 2005), 49-56.
“Arguing about Einstein’s Wife”
Physics World 17, No. 4 (April 2004), 14.
“Einstein’s Girlfriend on National Geographic”
Sloan Science & Film, April 25, 2017: http://scienceandfilm.org/articles/2893/einsteins-girlfriend-on-national-geographic
“Getting to Know Mileva Maric”
Review of Einstein’s Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric (M.I.T. Press, 2019), in Physics Today, Vol. 72, No. 7 (July 2019), 53-54. Also at: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4251
“Review: The Other Einstein: A Novel, by Marie Benedict”
Physics in Perspective, Vol. 20 (June 2018), 208-211.
“Mileva Marić, dans l’ombre d’Albert Einstein”
Les Cahiers de Science et Vie, no. 186, June 5, 2019, interviewed by Anne Debroise https://www.epresse.fr/magazine/les-cahiers-de-science-et-vie/2019-06-05/sommaire
“Einstein Historians Give Genius a Chance”
Physics Today, with Prof. Daniel Kennefick, edited by Melinda Baldwin, May 23, 2017 http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20170523a/full/
Newspaper Interview: “Einsteins Ideenwelt unter der Lupe,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), October 13, 2005. https://www.nzz.ch/articlecyzi2-1.156933
“In Elsa’s Apartment, Einstein Was Hiding an Escaped Soldier and Womanizer,” APS April Meeting, American Physical Society, Pais Prize Session, April 16, 2023.
“Einstein in World War I: How He Loved the Wrong Woman, Suffered a Fugitive Soldier, and Helped an Assassin,” with Thomas Levenson (MIT), and Thomas Palaima (UT), Institute of Historical Studies, UT Austin, February 13, 2023.
“The Real Drama in Einstein’s Life,” Historia Project, December 7, 2022 https://www.historiaproject.org/
“Einstein Escaping Marie,” CNS Polymathic Scholars, UT Austin, September 9, 2022.
“Did Miza Make Relativity?” Einstein-Jahr in Bern; Entdeckung, Kreativität und Innovations-kultur. Universität Bern, Kultur-Casino Bern, Switzerland, July 7, 2005.
History of Mathematics
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, hardcover, 2012), xxiv + 264 pp. (288 pp.).
Japanese translation of Negative Math: 負の数学 : マイナスかけるマイナスはマイナスになれるか? / Fu no sūgaku : Mainasu kakeru mainasu wa mainasu ni nareruka, trans. Yoshihiro Koya (Tokyo: Seidosha, 2007).
Turkish translation of Negative Math: Sıfırın Altında Matematik - Matematik Kurallarını Olumlu Anlamda Nasıl Bükebiliriz, trans. Ekrem Emre Sezer (Turkey: Tübitak, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2018), 278 pp. Paperback. http://esatis.tubitak.gov.tr/books/17911
Negative Math was reviewed in: American Scientist, 94:3, May/June 2006, p. 283; Choice 43, May 2006 p. 1; Books & Culture, Jan/Feb 2009, pp. 1-4; Convergence (Mathematical Association of America), October 2006, pp. 1-2; The Mathematical Gazette, 91:520, March 2007, pp. 190-191; The Mathematical Intelligencer, 29:1, 2007, pp. 65-66; Mathematics Teacher, 100:2, September 2006, p. 159; MathNEXUS, August 2006, pp. 1-2; SIAM News: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 39:9, November 2006, pp. 7-9; Plus Magazine (University of Cambridge), 39, June 2006, pp. 1-3; Publishers Weekly, November 2005, p. 1; ZentralblattMATH (Germany), 2009, p. 1. Other Academic Praise: HubPages, July 2006, p. 1; PBS Teachers, Recommended Books Archive, 2006; Scientific American Book Club, May 2006, p. 1; UMAP Journal: Undergraduate Mathematics and its Applications, 29:4, 2008, p. 407; YBP Library Services, March 2006, p. 1.
The Cult of Pythagoras was reviewed in: American Mathematical Monthly, 121:8, Oct. 2014, pp. 746-748, Choice 50, May 2013, p. 1; Heinz History Center, 2013, p. 1; International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group: Newsletter, July 2013, pp. 28-31; Library Journal, 137:17, Fall/Winter 2012, p. 7; Mathematical Association of America Digital Library, March 2013, pp. 1-2; Mathematical Gazette, March 2014, pp. 151-152; The Mathematical Intelligencer, 35:4, December 2013, pp. 81-82; Mathematics Teacher, 108:1, August 2014, p. 77; Science & Education, 22:9 (2013), pp. 2351-2355; Texas Books in Review, 32:3/4, Fall/Winter 2012, pp. 7-8; ZentralblattMATH (Germany), 2014, p.1. Academic Blogs: Stephen R. Case, Historian of Science, May 2014, p. 1-2; Proceedings of the Friesian Academy, 2013, pp. 11-14; Short Praise: Athenaeum Boekhandel, December 2012, p. 1; The Alcalde, March 2013, pp. 1-2; Scientific American Book Club, March 2013, p. 1; The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 2012; p. 1; Newsletter of the BIO-Oceans Association, 56, October 2012; p. 5; YBP Library Services, April 2013, p. 1.
Turkish translation: The Cult of Pythagoras (Turkey: Tübitak, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, forthcoming).
“Euler’s ‘Mistake’? The Radical Product Rule in Historical Perspective”
The American Mathematical Monthly 114 (April, 2007), 273-285.
“Euler’s Imaginary Mistakes”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 101-112.
“The Elegance of Euler’s Algebra of 1770”
The Euler Lecture: Keynote address for the 12th Annual Meeting of the Euler Society, St. Edward’s University, Austin Texas, July 21, 2014.
“Debates over Language: Coordinates versus Vectors”
Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 122-167.
“The Four of Pythagoras [on Vectors and Quaternions]”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 113-133.
“Negative Signs in the History of Algebra, Vectors, and Relativity”
Fall Central Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, September 10, 2017.
“History: Much Ado about Less than Nothing”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 18-42.
“Can Minus Times Minus Be Minus?”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 131-165.
“Inventing Mathematics?”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 181-200.
“Meaningful and Meaningless Expressions: Impossible Numbers”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 43-79.
“Making Radically New Mathematics”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 80-109.
“Sometimes –1 Is Greater than Zero”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 112-130.
“Unity in Mathematics”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 166-173.
“Making a Meaningful Math”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 174-185.
“Designing Numbers and Operations”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 186-219.
“Physical Mathematics?”
Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 220-234.
“Ugly Old Socrates on Eternal Truth”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 29-42.
“The Death of Archimedes”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 43-58.
“Gauss, Galois, and the Golden Ratio”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 59-81.
“From Nothing to Infinity”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 82-100.
“Dividing by Nothing”
Not Even Past, History Department UT Austin, 5 online pages, (12 April 2011). https://notevenpast.org/dividing-nothing/
“The War over the Infinitely Small”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 134-155.
“Impossible Triangles”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 156-180.
“Review: Knots: Mathematics with a Twist, by Alexei Sossinsky”
Isis, Vol. 94, No. 4 (December 2003), 693-694.
“Teaching History of Mathematics,” Workshop for Instructors Replicating the Course ‘Perspectives on Science and Math,” UTeach Institute, UT Austin, Student Activities Center, November 11, 2011.
“Imagining Numbers! Inquiry Based Learning,” Workshop for Instructors Replicating the Course ‘Perspectives on Science and Math,” UTeach Institute, Student Activities Center, UT Austin, November 11, 2011.
“The Rise of Abstraction at the École Polytechnique,” Poincaré Archives, Université Nancy 2, Nancy, France, June 9, 2010.
“Algebra against Geometry at the École Polytechnique,” Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, June 7, 2010.
“French Military Algebra and its Troubles in Modern Physics,” Mathematics Department, Northern Arizona University, April 20, 2010.
“Crimes of the Imagination in the History of Impossible Numbers,” Annual Lecture for Honors Students in Mathematics, Northern Arizona University, April 20, 2010.
“Much Ado About Less than Nothing: forgotten paradoxes showing that you actually had good reasons to be confused by negative and imaginary numbers in school, sensing important issues in the history of physics and math.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C. June 19, 2001.
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
“Triangle Sacrifice to the Gods”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 1-15.
“What Did Pythagoras Do in Astronomy?”
Pythagoras or Christ? Christians Against Pagans from Pythagoras to Giordano Bruno (Saltshadow Castle: Cambridge, April 2022), 9-39.
“An Irrational Murder at Sea”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 16-28.
“Pythagoras or Christ? Choosing a Savior in the 2nd Century”
Pythagoras or Christ? Christians Against Pagans from Pythagoras to Giordano Bruno (Saltshadow Castle: Cambridge, April 2022), 40-120.
“Christians against Pythagoreans”
Pythagoras or Christ? Christians Against Pagans from Pythagoras to Giordano Bruno (Saltshadow Castle: Cambridge, April 2022), 121-151.
“Galileo’s Pythagorean Heresy”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 13-46.
“Pythagoras and Copernicus”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 14-99.
“The Cult of Pythagoras”
The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), 201-216.
“Pythagoras and Other Fictions: Do We Need Them in Math?” Annual Public Lecture, Math Awareness Month, Mathematics Department, Cornell University, April 13, 2017. http://www.math.cornell.edu/m/Community/mam_lectures.html
“Pythagoras: Myths and Math,” Jefferson Scholars Program, Core Texts and Ideas, UT Austin, October 29, 2015.
“New Book Series: The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths,” Institute of Historical Studies, March 25, 2015
Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galiei
“Giordano Bruno and the Heresy of Many Worlds”
Annals of Science 73, No. 4 (October 2016), 345-374.
“Ten Censured Propositions in Giordano Bruno’s Books”
Bruniana & Campanelliana 22, No. 2 (Fall 2016), 27-42.
“The Crimes of Giordano Bruno”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 14-99.
“Why did the Catholic Church really condemn Giordano Bruno?”
Dialog: Theologie & Naturwissenschaften, February 2019
https://www.theologie-naturwissenschaften.de/startseite/leitartikelarchiv/giordano-bruno/
Translated into German: https://www.theologie-naturwissenschaften.de/startseite/leitartikelarchiv/giordano-bruno-deutsch/
“Was Giordano Bruno Burned at the Stake for Believing in Exoplanets?”
Scientific American, March 19, 2018: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/was-giordano-bruno-burned-at-the-stake-for-believing-in-exoplanets/
“Bellarmine and the Enemies of Bruno”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 123-60.
“Bellarmine’s Innumerable Suns”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 247-51.
“Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 1-12.
“Galileo in Danger”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 137-160.
“Galileo’s Pythagorean Heresy”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 13-46.
“Galileo Defends the Pythagorean Doctrines Again”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 179-202.
“Inchofer Against the New Pythagoreans”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 203-10.
“Melchior Inchofer, Giordano Bruno, and the Soul of the World”
Annals of Science 76, No. 3-4 (Oct. 2019), 267-302.
“Giordano Bruno and the Spirit that Moves the Earth”
Not Even Past, March 8, 2017
https://notevenpast.org/giordano-bruno-and-the-spirit-that-moves-the-earth/
“Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 1-12.
“Campanella Imprisoned and Tortured”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 115-22.
“Campanella Defends Galileo from Prison”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 171-78.
“Campanella’s Exile and Death”
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books; distr. University of Chicago Press, 2018), 232-37.
“Galileo and Giordano Bruno”
All About History Magazine (UK), interview by Emily Staniforth, June 2023, forthcoming.
“CHSTM Podcast: Burned Alive: Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition,” Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, September 2021, https://www.chstm.org/content/alberto-mart%C3%ADnez-%E2%80%94-burned-alive-bruno-galileo-and-inquisition; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iB3eQcw7Cg
“Radical Cosmology,” SETI Institute, Big Picture Science, February 18, 2019
http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/radical-cosmology
“Lies & Truth in the History of Science,” Harris Distinguished Lecture: California Institute of Technology, February 27, 2020. https://youtu.be/vAHQeZ8hVg8
“Galileo and Giordano Bruno: Philosophers on Trial for Heresies,” University of Colorado at Boulder, November 1, 2019.
“Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition,” IHS Book Talk, Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin, October 17, 2019
“Galileo Galilei and the Philosopher who was Burned Alive,” OLLI/Quest Talk, Thompson Conference Center, September 30, 2019.
“Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and the Moving Earth,” Center for Inquiry, Austin, TX, April 16, 2018.
“Giordano Bruno, Galileo, and the Cosmology of Many Worlds,” Physics Colloquium for Students and Faculty, UT Austin, John A. Wheeler Lecture Hall, March 28, 2018.
“Bruno, Galileo and the Heresy of the Soul of the World,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 11, 2017.
“Giordano Bruno: Suns, Exoplanets, and the Catholic Inquisition,” Physics Department, Baylor University, March 29, 2017.
“Roasted and Broiled Alive: The Inquisition, Bruno, Galileo, and the Spirit that Moves the Earth,” Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin, February 6, 2017
“The Heresies of Bruno and Galileo,” History of Science Society, Annual Conference, San Francisco, November 19, 2015.
“The Catholic Inquisition versus Giordano Bruno,” Center for Inquiry-Austin, “Food for Thought,” Trinity UMC, November 16, 2015.
“Galileo and the Heresy of Many Worlds,” History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, UT Austin, October 23, 2015.
“From Bruno to Galileo: The Heresy of Many Worlds,” 12th Biennial Conference on the History of Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, June 25, 2015.
“Bruno, Galileo, Einstein: The Value of Myths,” American Physical Society Annual Conference, San Antonio, March 2, 2015.
“Galileo, Giordano Bruno and Science during the Inquisition,” Houston Community College Alief Hayes Campus, October 14, 2014.
“Galileo, Giordano Bruno and Science during the Inquisition,” Houston Community College Katy Campus, Pandora’s Box series, October 14, 2014.
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition (London: Reaktion Books, 2018), 348 pp., distributed by University of Chicago Press: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo28433424.html
“Why did the Roman Inquisition Kill Giordano Bruno?” History and Philosophy of Science, Friday Talks, UT Austin, October 25, 2013. http://youtu.be/i7lqEa_e6CE
“Galileo, pagan heresies, and the Catholic Inquisition,” History of Science Colloquium, UT Austin, October 28, 2011.
“La Inquisición Católica y Galileo,” 4to Centenario de los Descubrimientos de Galileo, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 17 March 2009.
Electricity
“Replication of Coulomb’s Torsion Balance Experiment”
Archive for History of the Exact Sciences 60 (2006), 517-563.
“Coulomb’s Impossible Experiment”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 128-146.
“Experiments and Experiences in Mentorship”
Looking Back as We Move Forward: The Past, Present, and Future of the History of Science: Liber Amicorum for Jed Z. Buchwald on his 70th Birthday (New York City: INK, Inc., 2019), pp. 213-18.
“Very ‘Easy’ Electrical Experiments,” Conference in Honor of Jed Buchwald, California Institute of Technology, April 26, 2019. https://youtu.be/yV8bHfuIY4Q
“Ben Franklin’s Electric Kite”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 118-127.
“Franklin’s Kite and Other Stories: Myths in History of Science?” Alumni College, Texas Exes, Connally Banquet Hall of the Alumni Center, UT Austin, June 22, 2012.
“Franklin’s Kite and Darwin’s Finches,” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., July 19, 2011.
“Thomson, Plum-Pudding, and Electrons”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 147-163.
More Physics
“Newton’s Apple and the Tree of Knowledge”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 47-69.
“The Stone of the Ancients [on Alchemy]”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 70-94.
“Physics of Scale”
(oral histories documenting the history of the physics of phase transitions) branch History of Recent Science and Technology project, Dibner Institute, M.I.T. Edited interviews of physicists: Peter Heller, Kenneth G. Wilson, Alexander Polyakov, Howard Schnitzer, Benjamin Widom, Alexander Patashinski, Igor E. Dzyaloshinskii. http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/ The following interviews of physicists were also edited by A. Martínez, with S. Schweber or K. Hall, pending approval from the interviewees: George Benedek, Michael E. Fisher, Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Paul C. Martin, Valery L. Pokrovsy, H. Eugene Stanley, Peter Lepage.
History of Biology
“Darwin’s Missing Frogs”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 95-117.
“Darwin’s Finches and Other Science Myths”
Monthly Feature in Not Even Past (October 2011), 3 pages. https://notevenpast.org/alberto-martinez-darwins-finches-other-science-myths/
“Darwin, Biogeography and the Galápagos Islands,” College of Liberal Arts / College of Natural Sciences, Honors Programs, UT Austin, October 14, 2013.
“Einstein, Darwin, and the Importance of Primary Sources,” Keynote address, 2013 Texas STEM Librarians’ Conference, UT Austin, Austin, Texas, July 26, 2013.
“Darwin, Biogeography and the Galápagos Islands,” College of Liberal Arts / College of Natural Sciences, Honors Programs, UT Austin, October 15, 2012.
“Eugenics and the Myth of Equality”
in Science Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), 229-246.
“Classifying People by Color: How Racial Categories Change over Time”
Ethics in Science Lecture Series, University of Houston, February 29, 2016.
https://uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Seminars/Alberto-Martinez.php
https://uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Media/Alberto-Martinez.mp4
“UT Professor’s Research Dispels Archaic Notions of Skin Color”
interviewed by Albert Zhao for The Daily Texan, October 20, 2017 https://www.dailytexanonline.com/2017/10/20/ut-professors-research-dispels-archaic-notions-of-skin-color
“Why Were Racial Categories Created and Why Do They Persist Today?”
Interview with Maggie Martin for the radio show “Houston Matters” (Houston, TX), February 29, 2016;
“How should We Write about Race or Ethnicity in History?" presentation and discussion for Phi Alpha Theta students and history majors, Student Activities Center, UT Austin, April 2 and 22nd, 2014.
“Myths and Stories in Science,” Research + Pizza lecture series: University of Texas Libraries, UT Austin, March 5, 2014. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lsl/events/research-pizza-dr-alberto-mart-nez
“Science Secrets: The Truth About Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife and Other Myths,” UT NOVA, at UT Austin, February 8, 2012. http://youtu.be/Zf5giuGCzvA
“Science Secrets: The Truth About Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, and Other Myths,” Texas Book Festival, Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas, October 23, 2011.
“The Evolution of Myths in History of Science: Galileo, Darwin, Einstein,” University of Minnesota, History of Science Colloquium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 23, 2011.
“Discovery and Invention in History of Science,” Annual Student Research Reception: Student Senate of College Councils, UT Austin, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, UT Austin, April 25, 2011.
“Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife, Franklin’s Kite,” Annual Reception for Dean’s Scholars Students, College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin, Welch Hall, April 8, 2011.
“The Evolution of Myths in the History of Science,” Reiter’s Books, Washington, D.C., July 17, 2011.
“Book Launch: Science Secrets,” BookPeople, Austin, Texas, June 8, 2011.
“The Function of Myths in History of Science,” Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society, Induction Ceremony for Students, UT Austin, September 30, 2010.
“Secretos de la Ciencia,” in radio program “Es la Tarde,” EsRadio station (Spain) May 2, 2014.
Interview on Science Secrets, by Jessica Sinn, in UT Know (online), reissued in Further Findings, ShelfLife@Texas, CoLA main webpage, College of Liberal Arts Public Affairs website, Highbeam Research, Life & Letters Magazine (print and online), all in Fall 2011. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2014/04/18/associate-professors-salaries-increase-at-a-slower-rate-than-salaries-of-assistant
Video Interview on Science Secrets
by Joan Neuberger, in Not Even Past (online), October 1, 2011. https://notevenpast.org/alberto-martinez-darwins-finches-other-science-myths/
Newspaper Interview: “Professor Promotes Book on Myths of Science,” The Daily Texan, June 9, 2011. http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2011/06/09/professor-promotes-book-on-myths-of-science
Department Interview: “Al Martínez to Speak and Sign Copies of his Third Book,” June 7, 2011. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/news/3974
“Science Secrets: The Truth About Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife and Other Myths,” UT NOVA, at UT Austin, February 8, 2012. http://youtu.be/Zf5giuGCzvA
Political News Media
The Media versus the Apprentice: The Devil Mr. Trump
(Saltshadow Castle: Cambridge, 2019), iv+ 337 pp. Featured on national TV news: http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/the-media-and-trump
https://www.amazon.com/Media-versus-Apprentice-Devil-Trump/dp/1731489242/
“Hoaxed: The Movie”
El Ride Productions, January 24, 2019
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8991264/ Available at: http://hoaxedmovie.com/
“Trump’s Pledge to Kill Innocent People”
New Standard Press, December 20, 2016. http://www.newstandardpress.com/trump-kill-innocent-people/
“The Myth of Trump and the KKK”
New Standard Press, December 19, 2016. http://www.newstandardpress.com/the-myth-of-trump-and-the-kkk/
“How they Scared us about Hillary and Donald”
November 14, 2016, versions of this op-ed were published in the USA Today Newspapers: Arizona Republic (AZ), The Coloradoan (CO), DelawareOnline (DE), Iowa City Press-Citizen (IA), Louisville Courier Journal (KY), Springfield News-Leader (MO), Star Gazette (NY), Cincinnati Enquirer (OH), Knoxville News Sentinel (TN), Corpus Christi Caller Times (TX), Texas Perspectives (TX), Waco Tribune Herald (TX), Burlington Free Press (VT), Green Bay Press Gazette (WI), and the Wausau Daily Herald (WI).
“How Many People Celebrated in New Jersey on 9/11?”
New Standard Press, January 21, 2016. http://www.newstandardpress.com/newjersey911/
“The Media Needs to Stop Telling this Lie about Donald Trump. I’m a Sanders Supporter—and Value Honesty”
SALON, Editor’s pick: front page feature (2,012 words), Dec. 21, 2015. http://www.salon.com/2015/12/21/the_media_needs_to_stop_telling_this_lie_about_donald_trump_im_a_sanders_supporter_and_value_honesty/
“Here’s what’s known about Fred Trump’s arrest after a KKK clash”
PolitiFact, March 28, 2019. https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/mar/28/facebook-posts/heres-whats-known-about-fred-trumps-arrest-after-k/
“Edward Snowden’s Breaking Point”
New Standard Press, November 20, 2106, 1 page. http://www.newstandardpress.com/edward-snowdens-breaking-point/
“Is the Civil War or First Human Spaceflight More Significant?”
Chron.com (Houston Chronicle, May 2011), pp. 1-2 (with responses). http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/05/is-the-civil-war-or-first-human-spaceflight-more-significant-an-historian-weighs-in/
“The Media and Trump”
interviewed on Full Measure, by Sharyl Attkisson, winner of five Emmy Awards for investigative journalism on television, Oct. 1, 2017
http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/the-media-and-trump; also aired on December 24, 2017: http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/the-media-and-trump-12-18-2017
Puerto Rico
“What’s Worse: Hurricane Fiona or LUMA in Puerto Rico?”
The Hill, Sept. 22, 2022,
“The Truth about a Warehouse in Puerto Rico”
Medium, January 28, 2020. https://medium.com/@AlMartinezUT/the-truth-about-a-warehouse-in-puerto-rico-66d09861f20d
“Is the GWU Estimate of Hurricane Deaths in Puerto Rico Accurate?”
The Hill, September 18, 2018: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/407186-is-the-gwu-estimate-of-hurricane-deaths-in-puerto-rico-accurate
“How to Count the Victims of Hurricane Maria”
Medium, June 17, 2018: https://medium.com/@AlMartinezUT/how-to-count-the-victims-of-hurricane-maria-ebf754fa8629
“Teachers Protest the Collapse of Public Education in Puerto Rico”
The Hill, April 5, 2018: http://thehill.com/opinion/education/381816-teachers-protest-the-collapse-of-public-education-in-puerto-rico
“What Children in Puerto Rico Learned from the Hurricane”
Latina, December 29, 2017: http://www.latina.com/op-ed-what-children-puerto-rico-learned-hurricane
“Puerto Rican Students Deserve Support from University”
The Daily Texan, November 9, 2017. https://www.dailytexanonline.com/2017/11/09/puerto-rican-students-deserve-support-from-university
“Overpaid in Puerto Rico’s Huge Debt Crisis? A Lesson for the States”
Texas Perspectives, October 19, 2017. https://news.utexas.edu/2017/10/19/overpaid-in-puerto-rico-s-huge-debt-crisis
“Especímenes de la Universidad”
Diálogo (University of Puerto Rico), San Juan (January 1992), 28-29.
“UT Professor Returns to Austin after Hurricane”
KXAN, September 20, 2022, https://www.kxan.com/kxan-live/ut-professor-returns-to-austin-after-hurricane-fiona-hits-puerto-rico/
“Puerto Rico: Power Grid”
Full Measure (Investigative News), with Sharyl Attkisson, October 24, 2021, https://youtu.be/ok4VtM9q688?t=696
“This is Democracy: Ep. 62 – Puerto Rico – Statehood Debate”
interviewed by Jeremi Suri, October 25, 2019. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-62-puerto-rico-statehood-debate/id1420520464?i=1000454839974
“Hurricane Recovery”
interviewed on Full Measure, by Sharyl Attkisson, winner of five Emmy Awards for investigative journalism on television, Oct. 6, 2019
http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/hurricane-recovery
“Hurricane Maria [A Year Later]”
interviewed on Full Measure, by Sharyl Attkisson, winner of five Emmy Awards for investigative journalism on television. Sept. 16, 2018.
http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/hurricane-maria
“Rebuilding Puerto Rico”
Pale Blue Dot: Daily Texan Podcast, March 8, 2018: https://soundcloud.com/thedailytexan/pale-blue-dot-rebuilding-puerto-rico
“On Their Own… Puerto Ricans in Texas find Lack of Initiative from the State’s Universities”
interviewed by Albert Zhao, Daily Texan Atavist, Nov. 19, 2017, https://thedailytexan.atavist.com/on-their-own
“Double Disaster: Puerto Rico’s Crisis”
interviewed on Full Measure, by Sharyl Attkisson, winner of five Emmy Awards for investigative journalism on television. Oct. 15, 2017.
http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/double-disaster
The Eyes of Texas
“Whitewashing The Eyes of Texas”
Medium, September 23, 2021.
https://almartinezut.medium.com/whitewashing-the-eyes-of-texas-59d6b279ad7b
“100 Problems in The Eyes of Texas”
Medium, May 1, 2021. https://almartinezut.medium.com/100-problems-in-the-eyes-of-texas-10959642e535
“True Origins of The Eyes of Texas”
Medium, March 24, 2021 https://almartinezut.medium.com/true-origins-of-the-eyes-of-texas-3f2188569f0e
“NAACP Title VI Complaint on The Eyes of Texas”
Gary Bledsoe, Robert Notzon, Alberto Martinez, to the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, September 2, 2021. 22 pages. (9,654 words)
“The Eyes of Texas IS Racist; with Dr. Alberto Martinez”
The Jeff Ward Show, Hot Pie Media, September 10, 2021. https://hotpiemedia.com/podcast/the-jeff-ward-show/
“UT Professor Releases Independent Report Countering the Eyes of Texas History Committee”
Reporting Texas TV, April 1, 2021, https://reportingtexas.com/ut-professor-releases-independent-report-countering-the-eyes-of-texas-history-committee/
“Why Don’t the Eyes of Texas See?”
CNS Center for Social Change, UT Austin, June 28, 2021. https://utexas.zoom.us/j/97377616564
“Hispanic Faculty in the Eyes of Texas”
Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, May 28, 2021.
“The Eyes of Texas: 1903-2021”
The Orange Jackets, UT Austin, April 29, 2021. https://youtu.be/MI5m6shFpEc
“Discussion on the song The Eyes of Texas”
video: Russell Falcon, Alyssa Goard, “NAACP, UT Austin Students, Alumni Groups Denounce Use of ‘Eyes of Texas’ and Demand Its Retirement,” KXAN.com, March 29, 2021: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/naacp-ut-austin-students-alumni-groups-denounce-use-of-eyes-of-texas/
The University of Texas
“Whitewashing The Eyes of Texas”
Medium, September 23, 2021.
https://almartinezut.medium.com/whitewashing-the-eyes-of-texas-59d6b279ad7b
“Hispanic Equity Report”
coauthored with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Emilio Zamora, Gloria González-López, Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Fred Valdez, Martha Menchaca, John Morán González (October 8, 2019), 188 pp.
video: Russell Falcon, Alyssa Goard, “NAACP, UT Austin Students, Alumni Groups Denounce Use of ‘Eyes of Texas’ and Demand Its Retirement,” KXAN.com, March 29, 2021: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/naacp-ut-austin-students-alumni-groups-denounce-use-of-eyes-of-texas/
“Support for American Ethnic Studies”
Faculty Council Executive Committee, with Anthony Brown, Brian Evans, et al., July 27, 2020, UT Austin; 12 pages.
“Pass-Fail Resolution: COVID-19”
Faculty Council Executive Committee, with Anthony Brown, et al., November, 2020, UT Austin; 4 pages.
“Windowless Rooms for Students Should Be Illegal”
with architect Juan Miró, Austin American-Statesman, April 8, 2022, https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/2022/04/08/opinion-windowless-rooms-students-should-illegal/7197200001/
“Too Few Hispanic Faculty”
The Daily Texan, November 22, 2020; also at: https://thedailytexan.com/2020/11/22/too-few-hispanic-faculty
“UT Budget Should Allocate Less Money for Unaffordable Expenses”
The Daily Texan, April 21, 2014; 2 pages plus editors’ note http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/2014/04/21/ut-budget-needs-to-allocate-more-money-for-employee-salaries
“To Improve Student-Faculty Ratio, UT Must Hire More Faculty for Less”
The Daily Texan, April 16, 2015; https://thedailytexan.com/2015/04/16/to-improve-student-faculty-ratio-ut-must-hire-more-faculty-for-less
“UT’s Relationship with Accenture Should Raise Questions”
The Daily Texan, January 20, 2014, p. 4 in print version; 2 online pages plus readers’ comments; http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/2014/01/20/uts-relationship-with-accenture-should-raise-questions
“The Problem with Hegarty’s Plan to Save UT Money? It Costs Too Much”
The Daily Texan, November 14, 2013, p. 4; http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/2013/11/14/the-problem-with-hegartys-plan-to-save-ut-money-it-costs-too-much
“UT is Eating Itself as Cuts Keep Coming”
Austin American-Statesman, November 13, 2013, p. A10; http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/martinez-ut-is-eating-itself/nbrB7/
“College Educators Could Earn More at McDonald’s”
Austin American-Statesman, September 15, 2013, p. E6; also as: “Would you Like some Fries with that Dante?”
“Who Earns More? Professor or Fry Cook?”
in The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 21, 2013), 3 on-line pages; http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/10/21/who-earns-more-professor-or-fry-cook
“How Latinos are Getting Squeezed Out of Austin”
Austin American-Statesman, Front page news: Sunday November 22, 2020, pp. A1, A10; also at: https://www.statesman.com/news/20201120/hispanic-flight-from-austin-tied-to-affordability-gentrification-experts-say
“The University Must Do Better to Hire and Nurture Latino Faculty and Fix Pay Disparity”
by the Editorial Board of the Houston Chronicle, January 22, 2020, p. A14, also at: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Why-can-t-UT-Austin-hire-keep-Latino-faculty-14993081.php
“Profesores Latinos Revelan Disparidad Salarial en la Universidad de Texas”
Yahoo News, Agencia EFE (of Spain), January 9, 2020. https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/n%C3%BAmero-latinos-grad%C3%BAa-secundaria-sube-151631840.html
Also at: Impacto Latino (New York), January 9, 2020. https://impactolatino.com/profesores-latinos-revelan-disparidad-salarial-en-la-universidad-de-texas-2/
Also at: Alianza Metropolitan News (California), January 9, 2020. http://www.noticias.alianzanews.com/6467_usa-hispanos/6539222_el-numero-de-latinos-que-se-gradua-de-la-secundaria-sube-el-9-2-en-florida.html
“Latino Faculty Face ‘Gross’ Pay Disparities at UT Austin”
interviewed by Olivia Tallet, Houston Chronicle, January 6, 2020. Front Page, p. A1; also at: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/education/campus-chronicles/article/Latino-professors-confront-grotesque-14948691.php
“Latino Professors at the University of Texas are Paid Less, Few are in Leadership, Study Finds”
NBC News, interviewed by Suzanne Gamboa, November 25, 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-professors-univ-texas-austin-are-paid-less-few-are-n1090886
“Denuncian Pagos Injustos para Profesores Hispanos en la UT en Austin”
November 22, 2019. https://www.univision.com/local/austin-kakw/denuncian-pagos-injustos-para-profesores-hispanos-en-la-ut-en-austin-video
“Equity for Hispanic Professors”
Inside Higher Ed, October 30, 2019, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/30/ut-austin-faculty-group-wants-institution-fix-what-it-says-system-marginalizes
“Report Shows Inequities against Hispanic Faculty at UT”
The Austin American-Statesman, October 23, 2019, https://www.statesman.com/news/20191023/report-shows-inequities-among-hispanic-faculty-at-ut
“Report Exposes Inequalities against Hispanics at UT”
The Daily Texan, Oct. 22, 2019.
https://thedailytexan.com/2019/10/22/report-exposes-inequalities-against-hispanics-at-ut
“Study Finds Hispanic UT Professors to Be Underpaid, Underrepresented”
The Daily Texan, April 18, 2019. https://www.dailytexanonline.com/2019/04/18/hispanic-faculty-found-to-be-underrepresented-underpaid
“UT Lawyers Say Professors Don’t Have Academic Freedom”
Texas Tribune, August 21, 2018: https://www.tribtalk.org/2018/08/21/ut-lawyers-say-professors-dont-have-academic-freedom/
“Are UT Applicants Excluded Because of Color or Money?”
The Daily Texan, Vol. 118, No. 115 (March 5, 2018), 4; also at: http://dailytexanonline.com/2018/03/04/are-ut-applicants-excluded-because-of-color-or-money
“Associate Professors’ Salaries Increase at a Slower Rate than Salaries of Assistant Professors”
The Daily Texan, April 18, 2014, pp. 1-2; http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2014/04/18/associate-professors-salaries-increase-at-a-slower-rate-than-salaries-of-assistant
“Shared Services or Shared Suffering: UT’s Plan to Cut 500 Jobs”
Austin Chronicle, January 24, 2014; p. 14; http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2014-01-24/shared-services-or-shared-suffering-uts-plan-to-cut-500-jobs/
“Revisiting the 2019 Latino Equity Complaint against the University of Texas at Austin”
Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI), June 30, 2022 https://www.facebook.com/SomosMACRI/videos/1197575751043905
“Latina/o Equity in U.S. Higher Education”
National Campaign for Equity Assessment Policy: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), October 13, 2020. https://lulac.org/higheredequity/
“Hispanic Equity Report / UT System,” UT System Faculty Advisory Council, UT System Building, Downtown Austin, January 31, 2020.
“Hispanic Equity Report,” presentation to the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, at the Texas State Capitol, November 22, 2019. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/hispanic-professors-at-ut-are-demanding-equal-pay-and-equal-opportunities
“Should We Centralize Staff at UT?” Invited presentation for the Graduate Student Assembly, UT Austin, December 13, 2013.
Education
“Essential Science for Teachers: Physical Sciences”
Science Historian (Presenter and Consultant) for Television Series and DVDs (now online), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Annenberg Foundation / Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Annenberg/CPB Channel, 2003-2004 http://www.learner.org/resources/series200.html
Perspectives on Science and Math, Version 1.0
eighteen lessons with supplementary materials, online and CDs (Austin: UTeach Institute, 2009), 213 pp.
https://www.utexas.edu/uteach-institute/uti-courses/topics/per/
“Why Study History?”
New Standard Press, March 10, 2016. http://www.newstandardpress.com/category/history/
“What UTeach and the Current Replication Initiative Mean for the History of Science”
Newsletter of the History of Science Society, Bruce Hunt and Alberto Martínez, Vol. 39, No. 3 (July 2010), 19-23. Also at: http://www.hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2010/July-uteach.html
“Teaching Disagreements in Science and Math”
Newsletter of the History of Science Society, Vol. 3, No. 1 (April 2010), 18-19. Also at: http://www.hssonline.org/publications/Newsletter2010/April-teaching-tricks.html
“Intro to Perspectives on Science and Math,” UTeach Conference, ATT Conference Center, May 22, 2018.
“UTeach Workshop: Using History in Science and Math Classes,” UTeach Institute, University of Texas at Austin, October 25-26, 2017.
“How to Write Grant Applications” for the European Area graduate students, Dept. of History, UT Austin, September 29, 2016.
“Graduate School Admissions Workshop,” Phi Alpha Theta at UT Austin, April 15, 2015.
“Textbook Stories and True Stories,” Keynote address, 7th Annual Conference of Texas STEM Teachers (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education), Dallas, Texas February 8, 2014.
“Pursuing Graduate Studies in History,” for the UT chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honors Society, UT Austin, April 17, 2013.
“Teaching Sciences and Math, using Myths,” UTeach Institute National Workshop, UT Austin, November 11, 2011.
“Teaching History of Mathematics,” Workshop for Instructors Replicating the Course ‘Perspectives on Science and Math,” UTeach Institute, UT Austin, Student Activities Center, November 11, 2011.
“Teaching Perspectives” Workshop for Instructors Replicating the Course ‘Perspectives on Science and Math,” UTeach Institute, UT Austin, Student Activities Center, November 10, 2011.
“Teaching Sciences and Math, Using Myths and Disagreements,” Discovery Learning Project / Educational Advancement Foundation, UT Austin, Student Union, September 21, 2011.
“Perspectives on Science and Math Conference,” National Math and Science Initiative / UTeach Institute Workshop, University Teaching Center, Austin, October 30-31, 2009.
“From the Dissertation to the Book,” presentation for History graduate students, History Department, University of Texas at Austin, October 16, 2009.
“Perspectives Roundtable Discussion,” NMSI / UTeach Institute Annual Conference, AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, Austin, May 28, 2009.
“Co-Plenary Workshop: The National Replication of UTeach,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 6, 2008.
“Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Pre-Graduate School Internships,” Presentation for Students, Panelist, LBJ Room, Communication School, UT Austin, October 9, 2008.
“Teaching History to Science and Math Majors,” UTeach National Conference, Thomson Conference Center, UT Austin, May 22, 2008.
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