Krumenaker's first three books were in astronomy and computer references. For other publishers he had published Internet at a Glance, (1996) with Susan Feldman, and The Characteristics and the Life Cycle of Stars (2006). Krumenaker then founded Hermograph Press, from which its first tome was the library reference work Net.Journal
Directory,a semi-annual listing
of full text journals archived
on the Web, and which went through 13 editions (1997-2003). [A
subset for the online service Dialog was written by Jill Hurst as DialogWeb.]
The first Hermograph historical travel book, Walking the Line, Rediscovering and Touring the Civil War Defenses on Modern Atlanta's Landscape, came out in 2014. In 2017 while resident in Cologne, Germany, he finished the Colonia Tour Guide, the only English-language guide to 80 Roman ruins and relics there, accessible through walking and tram trails. In December 2019 his book Nine Days Traveling
on Lafayette's travels through Alabama, as it happened in 1825 and how
the trail looks today, was published. An update for the
bicentennial of Lafayette's journey was published in 2024. A
Georgia version, From River to River, was published June 2024.
Through Hermograph Press, Krumenaker has also published/edited/written periodicals. He wrote the newsletter The AlterNETive Searcher in the 1990s, on alternative Internet sites to find periodical archives, then a new and hot topic. The Classroom Astronomer (2009-15) was a full-color printed quarterly on astronomy education in classrooms of all levels. His latest periodicals are astronomy Substack newsletters, The Galactic Times (astronomy news, sky events and astronomy in everyday life, still in publication) and The Classroom Astronomer (2021-24), the descendant of the Magazine. Hermograph Press also produced a podcast, also called The Galactic Times, in 2021 that had interviews with astronomy newsmakers. Dr. Krumenaker was formerly the editor of the scholarly publication Journal and Review of Astronomy Education and Outreach (JRAEO).
Education and Professional Activities
Dr.
Krumenaker earned BS and MS astronomy
degrees at Case
Western Reserve University and a
planetarium education degree from
Michigan State University's Abrams
Planetarium. He earned his doctorate at the University
of Georgia in Science
Education with a dissertation entitled The
Status and Makeup of the U.S. High School Astronomy Course in
the Era
of No Child Left Behind.
With all his traveling, full time teaching has happened only in
spurts. This has occurred at Jackson State University (MS),
University of Texas, Georgia Perimeter College, Seoul National
University, Universitat zu Koln (Cologne, Germany) and Spelman College
(GA). There were numerous adjunct positions and a brief stint as a
high school science teacher and English as a Second Language
instructor, the latter useful later for helping non-native English
speakers with their manuscripts.
In addition to his pre-semi-retirement from the part-time college teaching,
he has been a guest faculty person in international venues:
- Between June 2010 and March 2011 he was a Visiting Scholar at Seoul National University in Korea.
- In 2012 he was guest instructor in science journalism at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
- In 2015, Dr. Krumenaker was Journalist-in-Residence at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies in Germany, and also an instructor/moderator at the Erice International School of Science Journalism conference in Italy.
- Moving to the Cologne, Germany area, he was a full time Guest Instructor at the University of Cologne in the Department of Physics and Its Didactics.
Dr. Krumenaker makes numerous presentations on
his
various book titles in the American Southeastern states, and has also
done so in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, Korea and
Italy. He also has had experiences giving teacher workshops in
astronomy in the US Southeast and South and in Korea. Along that
line he owned and operated a portable planetarium that did presentations
in schools and, for the general public, in shopping centers and
museums, among other sites, in TX, NY, NJ and TN for nearly 13 years,
his first self-employment.
Finally, Dr. Krumenaker was a 25-year member of
the National Association of Science
Writers (NASW) and was cybrarian/sysop for NASW's online services on
CompuServe
and
web site from 1994 to 1996. Between 1999 and 2014, he was the webmaster for the
International Science Writers Association
(ISWA).
Krumenaker was President of ISWA in 2017 and 2018. As an
independent publisher, Krumenaker and Hermograph Press have been a
member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, since 2017.
