Dr. Rajive Tiwari

Publications

• “Stories of Science and Perils of Decolonisation”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 59, Issue No. 30, 27 July, 2024
• “Anatomy of Reception: Science, Nation and Religion in Hindi-Language Print Media of Colonial South Asia” in Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800–1970, Edited By Brett Bennett and Joseph Hodge, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
• Wrote an appendix on History of Science Education in India for the report “Issues in Higher Education in Science” for the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2007
• Dictionary of Physics (in Hindi), National Publishing House, Delhi 2006
• “A Transnarrative for the Colony: Astronomy Education and Religion in 19th Century India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLI, No 13, April 1 -7, 2006
• “Carrying the Magic Lantern: Fr. Lafont and Scientific Autonomy in Colonial India”, Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, Winter, 2004
• “Phase Diagram of 3He–4He Mixture Films”, with W. I. Glaberson Physical Review B, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1990
• “Apples But Also Oranges” in the Belmont Abbey College magazine, Crossroads, Fall/Winter 2007
• Editorial Assistant – “How Do You Say It In English: A Hindi-English Dictionary of Idioms and Proverbs”, New Delhi, 1997

Presentations

• “Science/Mythology: Narratives of Science in Colonial and Postcolonial India”, AAPT Summer Meeting, Boston, July 9, 2024
• My paper, “Shifting Ideologies: Narratives of Science and its Philosophy in Colonial and Postcolonial India” was read in absentia at 6th International Workshop: Communicating Science, Philosophy and Literature in Syros, Greece on July 18, 2022
• “Faithful Translations: Religion and the Encounter with Western Science in Colonial India”, Conference on Study of Science and Belief in Society, University of Birmingham, UK, July 4-6, 2019
• “Politics of Science Narratives in Colonial and Postcolonial India” at “Narrating Science: The Power of Stories in the 21st Century” conference organized by University of Guelph and held in Toronto, Canada, May 24-27, 2017
• “Through the Looking Glass of Print Media: Popular Reflections on Science, Nationalism and Religion in 19th-Century India” at “Science in Public: Past, Present and Future” conference held at University of Kent, Canterbury, 13-15 July 2016
• “Science, modernity and religion in colonial India”, Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 22-24 April 2015
• “Popular Perceptions of Western Science in Nineteenth-Century India”, Intellectual Hinterlands Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, University of Toronto, June 25-27, 2014
• “Meaning of Science and the Social Context: Case of 19th Century India” AAPT Summer Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 16, 2013
• “Western Science in Late 19th-Early 20th Century Hindi-Language Print Media”, at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, 2009
• “Western Science in Late 19th-Early 20th Century Hindi-Language Print Media”, at the 3 Societies Meeting, Oxford University, UK, July 2008
• “Astronomy education and religion in colonial India” at the joint conference of History of Science Society, Philosophy of Science Society and Society for Social Studies of Science, November 1 – 5, 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• “Science, Religion and Nation in 19th Century Hindi Magazines”, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development, New Delhi, India; July 2008.
• “Repainting the Heavens: Astronomy Education and Religion in Colonial India”, 22nd International Congress of History of Science at Beijing, China, July 2005
• “Eugene Lafont: An Early Physics Educator in Colonial India”, Summer 2004 meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers at California State University, Sacramento.
• “Making of a Physics Dictionary in Hindi”, Fall 2002 meeting of NCS-AAPT at UNC-Asheville
• Presented a workshop on Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon for faculty at Belmont Abbey College under the Great Books program

Other Academic Work:

• Member AAPT’s Committee on History and Philosophy; appointed in 2024 for a three year term
• Was retained to provide an Expert Witness Testimony for Bogle and Anthony, PA in a car accident case, October 2017
• Reviewed a submission on history of science in India for the journal Minerva, August 2017
• Chaired the session, Professional Hinterlands at Intellectual Hinterlands Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, University of Toronto, June 25-27, 2014
• Reviewed write-ups for activities developed by Center for Inquiry-Based Learning for Middle School science classes
• Reviewed physical science questions intended for pre-service and practicing middle school science teachers for the project – Diagnostic Teacher Assessments in Mathematics and Science, developed at University of Louisville, KY
• Constructed physics test items for pre-service and in-service teachers for American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence
• Performed validation study for math test items for American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence
• Constructed physics test items for AP Physics exams
• Participated in the audit of AP Physics syllabi
• Graded AP Physics exams for ETS
• Have prepared online quizzes and reviewed text books for various publishers
• Review essay – “Electron Conduction in Disordered Media” (unpublished)