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ISNI: 0000000138200102
ResearcherID: B-4775-2015
Scopus Author ID: 7006639226

Keywords

Evolutionary biology, History and philosophy of science, Education, New England genealogy, Ancient numismatics

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United States

Biography

Systematics, evolutionary biology, and the history and theory of the historical sciences; relations between the sciences and the humanities; residential colleges, house systems, homeschooling, and the renewal of educational life. For more please visit rjohara.net.

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Education and qualifications (1)

Harvard University: Cambridge, MA, US

1984 to 1989 | Ph.D. (Biology)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Works (45)

Was Ishmael black? Facts behind Herman Melville’s fiction

Journal of African American History
2017-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.102.3.0380
JSTOR: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.102.3.0380
SSRN: 3113667
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Moby Dylan: An analysis of Bob Dylan’s summary of Moby-Dick in his 2017 Nobel Lecture

SSRN Electronic Journal
2017-06-11 | Working paper
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2984395
SSRN: 2984395
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Inscriptions from the West Street Cemetery in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1798–1879), with an outline of the early Marshall families in Fitchburg’s Laurel Hill Cemetery

MASSOG
2016-08 | Journal article
SSRN: 2544520
Part of OCLC: 4224017
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

“Oh, God! to think Man ever comes too near his Home!”: Thomas Hood’s poem “The Lee Shore” as a source for Moby-Dick

Leviathan
2016-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/lvn.2016.0026
URI: muse.jhu.edu/article/622503
SSRN: 2541151
EID:

2-s2.0-84977514370
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Robert J. O’Hara

The names Ahab and Ishmael in early Massachusetts

Notes and Queries
2015-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjv116
SSRN: 2519287
EID:

2-s2.0-84941284370
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Robert J. O’Hara

American higher education and the “collegiate way of living”

Community Design (Tsinghua University)
2011-06-01 | Journal article
SSRN: 2561916
Part of OCLC: 871200193
Part of LCCN: 2013211298
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus

2009 | Website
URI: rjohara.net/coins
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Robert J. O’Hara

“To gather from the air a live tradition”

Inside Higher Ed
2007-12-21 | Journal article
SSRN: 2570665
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Robert J. O’Hara

Against theme halls

Student Affairs Leader
2007-11-15 | Journal article
SSRN: 2560943
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Robert J. O’Hara

Essay-review of Valentine’s “On the Origin of Phyla”

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2007-03-01 | Book review
DOI: 10.1080/02698590701306048
SSRN: 2561924
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Robert J. O’Hara

Hogwarts U

Inside Higher Ed
2006-11-28 | Journal article
SSRN: 2580549
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Robert J. O’Hara

Publications of Stephen Toulmin: A working bibliography

SSRN Electronic Journal
2006-05-01 | Working paper
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2542900
SSRN: 2542900
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Robert J. O’Hara

Essay-review of Christian’s “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
2006-03-01 | Book review
DOI: 10.1080/02698590600641107
SSRN: 2561919
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Trees of history in systematics, historical linguistics, and stemmatics: A working interdisciplinary bibliography

SSRN Electronic Journal
2006-02-01 | Working paper
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2540351
SSRN: 2540351
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Pasta with a side order of philosophy, please

Times Higher Education Supplement
2004-08-20 | Journal article
SSRN: 2567564
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

How to build a residential college

Planning for Higher Education
2001-12 | Journal article
SSRN: 2559849
Part of ISSN: 0736-0983
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and the Renewal of University Life

2000 | Website
URI: collegiateway.org
OCLC: 61718652
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Peabody Park at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

1999 | Website
URI: rjohara.net/peabody
OCLC: 44283628
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Robert J. O’Hara

The history of systematics: A working bibliography, 1965–1996

SSRN Electronic Journal
1998-07-01 | Working paper
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2541429
SSRN: 2541429
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Robert J. O’Hara

Narrative in the historical sciences: A working interdisciplinary bibliography

SSRN Electronic Journal
1998-06-01 | Working paper
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2542010
SSRN: 2542010
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Robert J. O’Hara

The Darwin-L Archives on the Historical Sciences

1997 | Website
URI: rjohara.net/darwin
OCLC: 70925990
OCLC: 44340701
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Robert J. O’Hara

Population thinking and tree thinking in systematics

Zoologica Scripta
1997-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1997.tb00422.x
EID:

2-s2.0-0031430556

SSRN: 2559464
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Robert J. O’Hara

Cladistic analysis of an Old Norse manuscript tradition

Research in Humanities Computing
1996 | Journal article
Part of OCLC: 24868195
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Robert J. O’Hara

Mapping the space of time: Temporal representation in the historical sciences

Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences
1996 | Journal article
SSRN: 2559427
OCLC: 35708413
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Robert J. O’Hara

Trees of history in systematics and philology

Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
1996 | Journal article
SSRN: 2558818
OCLC: 164831342
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Robert J. O’Hara

A computer approach to the comparison and identification of species in difficult taxonomic groups

Breviora
1995-01-10 | Journal article
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Robert J. O’Hara

Vita: Chauncey Wright – Brief life of an “indolent genius”: 1830–1875

Harvard Magazine
1994-03 | Magazine article
SSRN: 2566601
Part of OCLC: 1788529
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Robert J. O’Hara

Review of Panchen’s “Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology”

Isis
1994-03-01 | Book review
DOI: 10.1086/356790
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Robert J. O’Hara

Evolutionary history and the species problem

American Zoologist
1994-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/icb/34.1.12
EID:

2-s2.0-0028602466

SSRN: 2558375
JSTOR: 3883814
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Robert J. O’Hara

Computer-assisted methods of stemmatic analysis

Occasional Papers of the Canterbury Tales Project
1993 | Journal article
Part of OCLC: 34684102
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Robert J. O’Hara

Systematic generalization, historical fate, and the species problem

Systematic Biology
1993-09-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/42.3.231
EID:

2-s2.0-12044255162

SSRN: 2558264
JSTOR: 2992462
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Robert J. O’Hara

Review of Atran’s “Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science”

Forest & Conservation History
1993-01-01 | Book review
DOI: 10.2307/3983826
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Robert J. O’Hara

The Richmond Index to the Genera and Species of Birds

1992 | Book
OCLC: 28506704
LCCN: 93-630012
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Robert J. O’Hara

Report on the textual criticism challenge 1991

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
1992-09 | Journal article
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Robert J. O’Hara

Telling the tree: Narrative representation and the study of evolutionary history

Biology and Philosophy
1992-04-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/bf00129880
EID:

2-s2.0-0000043856

SSRN: 2558248
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Robert J. O’Hara

Essay-review of Sibley and Ahlquist’s “Phylogeny and Classification of Birds”

Auk
1991-10 | Book review
JSTOR: 4088340
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Robert J. O’Hara

Review of Kofalk’s “No Woman Tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey, Pioneer Naturalist”

Archives of Natural History
1991-10-01 | Book review
DOI: 10.3366/anh.1991.18.3.415b
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Robert J. O’Hara

Representations of the natural system in the nineteenth century

Biology and Philosophy
1991-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/bf02426840
EID:

2-s2.0-0026291988

OCLC: 35089504
SSRN: 2558211
ASIN: 0802074391
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Robert J. O’Hara

Diagrammatic classifications of birds, 1819–1901: Views of the natural system in 19th-century British ornithology

Acta XIX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici
1988 | Journal article
SSRN: 2558081
OCLC: 21036838
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Robert J. O’Hara

Problems in the narrative representation of evolutionary history

American Zoologist
1988-12 | Conference paper
SSRN: 2558092
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

Crisis in systematics

Science
1988-07-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.241.4863.275-c
EID:

2-s2.0-0344148767
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Robert J. O’Hara

Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology

Systematic Zoology
1988-06-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2992272
SSRN: 2556074
Part of OCLC: 681481573
Part of LCCN: 2010049372
JSTOR: 2992272
Part of ASIN: 0759113262
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Robert J. O’Hara

Strickland and Wallace, and the systematic argument for evolution

American Zoologist
1987-12 | Conference paper
SSRN: 2557865
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Robert J. O’Hara

The Great Collections: Agassiz, Barbour, Bigelow, Brewster, Cabot, de Koninck, Faxon, Garman, Hagen, Thayer, Whitney

Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1986-09 | Book
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4895.6249
OCLC: 31751170
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara

The biogeographic evidence supporting the Pleistocene forest refuge hypothesis

Evolution
1986-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2408603
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1986.tb05717.x
EID:

2-s2.0-0022836668

SSRN: 2581166
JSTOR: 2408603
Source: Self-asserted source
Robert J. O’Hara
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