Biography:Ullica Segerstråle
Ullica Segerstråle | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle October 10, 1945[1] |
| Education | University of Helsinki University of Pennsylvania Harvard University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2002)[2] Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2017)[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of science Sociology of science |
| Institutions | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Whose truth shall prevail? Moral and scientific interests in the sociobiology controversy (1983) |
Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle (born October 10, 1945) is a Finnish sociologist and historian of science who is professor of sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.[4][5]
Segerstråle’s published nonfiction books include Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond (2000) and Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton (2013), the latter of which is the first biography of evolutionary biologist W.D. Hamilton.[6][7]
Her Ph.D. thesis described the sociobiology controversy of the 1970s, and it subsequently formed the basis of an article published in the first issue of Biology & Philosophy in 1986.[8][9]
A Guggenheim Fellow in 2002,[2] she was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2012. She is also a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters[6] and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.[10] She holds two M.S. degrees – one in organic chemistry and one in sociology – from the University of Helsinki, as well as an M.A. in communication from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.[11]
Books
Author
- Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Editor
- Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society (SUNY Press, 2000)
References
- ↑ Finlands ridderskaps och adels kalender 1992, p. 542. Esbo 1991. ISBN 951-9417-26-5
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ullica Segerstråle" (in en-US). https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ullica-segerstrale/.
- ↑ "2017 Excellence in Teaching Awards Announced" (in en-US). Illinois Institute of Technology. 2017-04-28. https://iit.edu/news/iittoday/?p=64512.
- ↑ "Contributor biographical information for Library of Congress control number 00703257". http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/00703257-b.html.
- ↑ Hoyt, Erich (1997-03-21) (in en). The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants. Simon and Schuster. pp. 250. ISBN 978-0-684-83045-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=_lWKkBH3zu8C. "...Ullica Segerstråle, a sociologist and historian of science..."
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Segerstrale Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts" (in en-US). Illinois Institute of Technology. 2012-03-09. https://iit.edu/news/iittoday/?p=2688.
- ↑ Gee, Maggie (2013-03-12). "Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W D Hamilton by Ullica Segerstrale: review" (in en-GB). The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9915067/Natures-Oracle-The-Life-and-Work-of-W-D-Hamilton-by-Ullica-Segerstrale-review.html.
- ↑ Campbell, Colin (1986-11-09). "Anatomy of a Fierce Academic Feud" (in en). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/09/education/anatomy-of-a-fierce-academic-feud.html.
- ↑ Segerstrale, Ullica (March 1986). "Colleagues in conflict: An 'in vivo' analysis of the sociobiology controversy" (in en). Biology & Philosophy 1 (1): 53–87. doi:10.1007/bf00127089. ISSN 0169-3867.
- ↑ "Ullica Segerstrale" (in en). Illinois Institute of Technology. https://humansciences.iit.edu/faculty/ullica-segerstrale.
- ↑ Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton. Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-860727-4. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/natures-oracle-9780198607274?cc=us&lang=en&#. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
External links
- Faculty page
- Ullica Segerstråle publications indexed by Google Scholar
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