Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
Keller received her B.A. in physics from Brandeis University in 1957 and continued her studies in theoretical physics at Harvard University graduating with a Ph.D. in 1963. She became interested in molecular biology during a visit to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory while completing her Ph.D. dissertation. Her subsequent research has focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.
She is also on the advisory board of FFIPP-USA (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-USA), a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, and students, working in for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and just peace. [1]
[edit] Published works
- 1983 A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. Freeman
- 1985 Reflections on Gender and Science. Yale University Press
- 1989 Three cultures : fifteen lectures on the confrontation of academic cultures, The Hague : Univ. Pers Rotterdam
- 1992 Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science. Routledge
- 1995 Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology. The Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine. Columbia University Press
- 1998 Keywords in Evolutionary Biology (co-edited with Elisabeth Lloyd). Harvard University Press (reprinted 1998 ISBN 0674503139).
- 2000 The Century of the Gene. Harvard University Press
- 2002 Making Sense of Life : Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Harvard University Press
- 2010 The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. Duke University Press
