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| Areas of Specialization: Evolutionary Biology History & Philosophy of Science Hominoid Paleobiology; Artificial Life |
| Curriculum Vita [download a complete cv] {under construction} |
| Education: PhD Harvard University MA Yale University BA Kent State University |
| Publications & Manuscripts: Books Darwin’s Mutant Phoenix: Macroevolution in the Twentieth Century. in prep. Stephen Jay Gould’s View of Life. in prep, Articles “Punctuated Equilibria: What does it mean to be a Darwinian” for The Paleobiological Revolution, ed. Michael Ruse and David Sepkoski, Univ of Chicago. (2008) in press “Jurassic Spark” for edited volume on cultural studies of science, Atwood Gaines, editor. Univ CA Press, Berkeley. In press “Dolf’s Triangles: Seilacher’s Paleobiology from Hitler to Baghdad to Yale” invited feature article for Biological Theory, MIT Press, in prep “Walter Alvarez” for Encyclopedia of Evolution, ed. Michael Ruse, Harvard. in press “‘With God all things are possible*’ (*except macroevolution)” RT Pennock and S Spath (eds.) Defending Evolution Education: A Guidebook for Citizens for Science. in press “Evolution: The German Synthesis” in prep. for submission to Isis “Women in Archeology” review of Grit-Tempered ed. N.M. White, L. P. Sullivan, and J.T. Marrinan. Quarterly Review of Biology vol 77, no. 1 (2002) p. 46 “Witches, Werewolves and Whippets: Linnaeus' Cynographia in cultural context” 50 pp. ms “Ohio Overthrows Scopes Legacy” Reports of the National Center for Science Education. Dec 2002 “Ohio Rides Again” Reports of the National Center for Science Education. Jan 2004 “Entropy in Muffins” Reports of the National Center for Science Education. Jan, 2006 1981-2007 some 250 popular articles on dog breeding, training and history. e.g. Brown, Robert, DVM and Patricia Princehouse. "Health Problems" in: Paul Strang, The New Complete Great Pyrenees, Simon & Schuster Macmillan. New York (1991) Numerous letters to the editor & op-eds concerning creationism, "intelligent-design", and evolution |
| Media Appearances: Numerous media appearances concerning creationism and evolution, including interviews for/quotes in, among others: Science Nature New York Times London Guardian Washington Post National Review Washington Times Chicago Tribune Detroit Free Press, Plain Dealer, Kansas City Star & other regional papers Wired The Scientist Numerous AP stories ABCNEWS radio National Public Radio Mitch Albom Show Air America WCPN various regional radio station interviews and call-in shows TV: Feagler & Friends James Kennedy’s Coral Ridge Ministries Newsnight Akron various television news reports |
| References: Stephen Jay Gould [read letter] I. Bernard Cohen [read letter] Richard C. Lewontin, Professor of Biology, MCZ Laboratories, Harvard University Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin -Madison Robert J. Richards, Professor of History, Philosophy, and Psychology, Director., Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science & Medicine, University of Chicago Alan Rocke, Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History, Dept of History, Case Western Reserve University Everett Mendelsohn, Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Jonathan Sadowsky, Dr. Theodore J. Castele Associate Professor of Medical History & Chair, Dept of History, Case Western Reserve University James Edmonson, Director, Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University James Moore, Department of the History of Science, Technology & Medicine, The Open University & Cambridge University |
| Courses Taught ay 2005-2006: “Topics: Evolution and Anti-Evolution” PHIL/HSTY 303/403 College Scholars Pgm Junior Yr Sem (Physics; Film; Bioethics; Ethnic Dance) ARSC 301/302 “Evolution” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL/HSTY 225 “Mammal Evolution” ANAT/ANTH/ PHIL/BIOL/GEOL/HSTY 367/467 “Darwin’s View of Life” USNA 201 summer 2005: “Natural Philosophy I” PHIL/HSTY 203 ay 2004-2005: “Evolution” HSTY/ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL 225 “Seminar in Evolutionary Biology” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/HSTY/PHIL394/494 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program Senior Capstone Projects ARSC 397/398 “Darwin’s View of Life” USNA 201 summer 2004: “Natural Philosophy I” PHIL/HSTY 203 ay 2003-2004: “Philosophical Issues in Genetics” PHIL 309/409 “Evolution” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/ PHIL/HSTY 225 “The Life of the Mind” USFS 100 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program Senior Capstone Projects ARSC 397/398 “Darwin’s View of Life” USNA 201 “Science as a Creative Human Enterprise” LIBX22 summer 2003: “Natural Philosophy I” PHIL/HSTY 203 ay 2002- 2003: “Math and Society” PHIL 198 “Darwin’s View of Life” USNA 201 “Seminar in Evolutionary Biology” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL/HSTY 394/494 “Evolution” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/ PHIL/HSTY 225 “The Life of the Mind” USFS 100 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program Senior Capstone Projects ARSC 301/302 ay 2001-2002: “Natural Philosophy II” PHIL 204/HSTY 207“Seminar in Evolutionary Biology” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/ PHIL/HSTY 394/494 “Evolution” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL/HSTY 225 “Natural Philosophy I” PHIL/HSTY 203 “Philosophical Issues in Genetics” PHIL 309/409 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program (Topics: Leadership, Film) ARSC 201/202 ay 2000-2001: “Philosophical Issues in Genetics” PHIL 309/409 “Seminar in Evolutionary Biology” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL/HSTY 394/494 “Natural Philosophy II” PHIL 204/HSTY 207 “Evolution” ANTH/BIOL/GEOL/PHIL/HSTY 225 “Natural Philosophy I” PHIL/HSTY 203 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program Junior Year Seminar ARSC 201/202 (Topics: Dance, Dreams, Undemocratic Practices in America, Game Theory, Urban Africa) ay 1999-2000: “Topics: Evolution, Creation, and Science” PHIL303/403 “Natural Philosophy II” PHIL 204/HSTY 207 “Philosophical Issues in Genetics” PHIL 315/415 “Natural Philosophy I” PHIL/HSTY 203 “Topics: Feminist Philosophies of Science” PHIL 303/403 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program Junior Year Seminar ARSC 201/202 (Topics: Existentialism; Media/Advertising, Poetry & Poetry Slam; Medical Ethics) ay 1998-1999: “Science in Western Thought II” HSTY 202 “History of Biology” HSTY394/494 “Topics: Philosophical Issues in Genetics” PHIL 315/415 Interdisciplinary College Scholars Program Junior Year Seminar ARSC 201/202 (Topics: Images & Society; The Urban Experience, Brain & Mind; Alternative Medicine) spring, 1998: “Topics: Darwin’s Revolution: Causation and Controversy in Biology” PHIL 303/403 At Harvard University 1996: “Humans, Horses & Hopeful Monsters: Macroevolution in the Twentieth Century” -Primary Instructor, History of Science Dept Junior Seminar “Was Walcott a Darwinian?” Primary Instructor, History of Science Dept Junior Tutorial “The Woman Question in Nineteenth Century Botany” History of Science Junior Tutorial “Darwin, Freud, Einstein” Teaching Assistant for Prof. Thomas Glick “Revolution in Science” Teaching Fellow for Prof. I. Bernard Cohen “The Darwinian Revolution” Historical Study B-15 Section leader and Teaching Fellow for Prof. Everett Mendelsohn “Evolution” Biology 17 Mini course instructor and Teaching Fellow. for large lecture course primarily for biology majors co taught by Profs Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin. 1995: “Deep Time: Metaphor & Measurement” Primary Instructor, History of Science Junior Seminar “Race & Gender in the History of Medicine” Primary Instructor, History Sci Junior Tutorial “Evolution” Biology 17 Mini course instructor and Teaching Asst. for 2 sections of a large lecture course primarily for biology majors co taught by Richard Bambach and Richard Lewontin. 1994: “Evolution” Biology 17 Mini course instructor and Teaching Asst. for 3 sections of a large lecture course primarily for biology majors co- taught by Profs. S. J. Gould and Daniel Hartl. 1993: “History of Life” Science B-16 Mini course instructor and Teaching Asst. for 2 sections of a large lecture course in science primarily for non science majors taught by Stephen Jay Gould |
| Talks-Invited Lectures “The War on Darwin” Dept of Biology, University of Evansville. Feb 21, 2006 “The War on Darwin” Dept of Biology, Baldwin Wallace College. Jan 26, 2006 “Do Genes Make Us Human? Genetic Technologies & Evolution” Freshman Forum, Case Western Reserve University. Aug 26, 2005 “Darwin's Mutant Phoenix” Redpath Museum, McGill Unversity. April 22, 2005 “Macroevolution Below the Species Level and the Paradox of University Science Education” McGill Unversity. April 21, 2005 “Creationism Evolving” Dept of Biological Sciences, Oberlin College. Feb 22, 2005 “Stealth Creationism’s Threat to Science Education” Center Evolution Ed, McGill Univ Nov 25, 2004 “Stealth Creationism in Ohio” National Center for Science Education, Sept 11, 2004 Berkeley, CA “Stealth Creationism’s Threat to Science Education” Dept of Biology, Univ of Akron. Sept 8, 2004 “Dinosaurs, Creationists, Stephen Jay Gould & other Objects of Evolutionary Controversy” STS Program, The Pennsylvania State University. May 18, 2004 “Eugenics from Galton to Cloning” Science, Technology & Society, York University, Toronto, Ont. March 4, 2004 “Darwin’s Mutant Phoenix” Dept of Science, Technology & Society, York University, Toronto, Ont. March 4, 2004 “Dinosaurs, Paleobiology and Punctuated Equilibria: The Importance of Paleontology in Evolutionary Theory” Dept of Geological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University. Feb 6, 2004 “Evolution and the Mystery of Consciousness: How can we know how we know?” Share the Vision Forum, Case Western Reserve University. Aug 19, 2003 “Of Dogs, Darwin, and Disney” Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH April 3. 2003 “Darwin’s Mutant Phoenix” Dept. of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, January 16, 2003 “Mutant Phoenix: Macroevolution in the Twentieth Century” Depts of Biology, Geology, and Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. May 13, 2002. “Do Genes Make Us Human? Philosophy, Genetic Technologies, and Evolution” Freshman Forum, Case Western Reserve University. Aug 20, 2001 “The New Genetics: Medical Miracles vs Public Danger” Case Western Reserve University Medical School Continuing Education Forum, June 1, 2001 “Jurassic Spark: Dinosaurs as Political Activists and Philosophical Orators” CWRU Cultural Studies of Science Symposium, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Feb 23, 2000 “Socrates, Frankenstein, and the Rights of Death” Intercultural Dialogue Group 'Science and Culture' series. Case Western Reserve University, November 18, 1999 “Mutant Phoenix: Macroevolution in the Twentieth Century” Dept. of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. January 23, 1998. “Animalcules, Genesis, and the Microscope”Dept. of Philosophy, Boston College, Boston, MA. March 20, 1997 “Haraway, Primatology, and Feminist Objectivity” Life Sciences Working Group Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.. April 25, 1994 -Public Outreach “The Darwin War: Struggle for the Nature & Future of Science” American Chemical Society, Cleveland, OH, Oct 22, 2005 “The Creationism Controversy and the Nature of Science” Invited Lecture. ACLU Cleveland, OH July 9, 2004 “The Creationism Controversy” Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, DC. Oct 29, 2004 “Evolution and the Nature of Science” Invited Lecture. Mason Public Schools Teacher Education Program. Mason, OH. Oct 20, 2003 “Intelligent Design: Is it Really Science?” Invited Lecture. Lyndhurst Public Library, Lyndhurst, OH American Association of University Women. March 23, 2003 “Charles Darwin” Invited Lecture. Free Inquirers of Northern Ohio Darwin Day Celebration, Independence Public Library, Independence, OH. Feb 12, 2003 “Darwin vs. Design” Invited Lecture. Geauga County Public Library Free Speech Forum, Chesterland, OH. Oct 11, 2002 “Intelligent Design Creationism and Ohio’s Public Schools” Invited Lecture Cleveland Jewish Secular Community. March 17, 2002 -Other Talks “Fossils, Fins and the Fleeting Present” History of Science Society, November, 2005 “Haeckel, Goldschmidt, Gould: 100 Years of Contrarian Darwinians” History of Science Society Austin, TX. November 18, 2004 “Transforming Fossils” Fifth British-North American Joint Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS, Halifax, NS, Canada. Aug 5, 2004 “Mutant Phoenix: Macroevolution from Germany to the US” History of Science Society Vancouver, BC. November, 2000 (Session Organizer for “Contested Darwinisms”) “Holism and Reductionism in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology" Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology. Princeton University. April 1, 2000 “Women in Science” Panel Discussion. Intercultural Dialogue Group 'Science and Culture' Dec 2, 1999 “Why Galileo?” April 24, 1999, Welcome address for ‘Galileo: A Student Conference on the Philosophy, History, and Cultural Studies of Science,’ Dept of Philosophy, CWRU, Cleveland, OH “Maintaining Boundaries” Panel Discussion (with Allan Brandt & Stephanie Kenen), Sept., 1997, Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning and Harvard Dept. of the History of Science Teaching Retreat, Lyman Estate, Waltham, MA “History of Natural History” Session chair and commentor, May, 1996, FAUST (undergraduate history of science conference, Harvard University. “Witches, Werewolves and Whippets: Linnaeus’ Cynographia in Cultural Context” February, 1994, MEPHISTOS (natl. grad student history of science conference), Cambridge, MA “Homo erectus: A Lumper’s View” March, 1986, Central States Anthropological Society, Chicago, IL |
