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Ullica Segerstråle
Born
Finland
NationalityFinnish
EducationUniversity of Helsinki
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2002)[1]
Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2017)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of science
Sociology of science
InstitutionsIllinois Institute of Technology
ThesisWhose truth shall prevail?: moral and scientific interests in the sociobiology controversy (1983)

Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle is a Finnish sociologist and historian of science who is professor of sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.[3][4] Her published nonfiction books include Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate (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.[5][6] A Guggenheim Fellow in 2002,[1] 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[5] and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9][10]

Books

Author

  • Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate (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

  1. ^ a b "Ullica Segerstråle". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  2. ^ "2017 Excellence in Teaching Awards Announced". IIT Today. 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  3. ^ "Contributor biographical information for Library of Congress control number 00703257". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  4. ^ Hoyt, Erich (1997-03-21). The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants. Simon and Schuster. p. 250. ISBN 9780684830452. ...Ullica Segerstråle, a sociologist and historian of science...
  5. ^ a b "Segerstrale Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts". IIT Today. 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  6. ^ Gee, Maggie (2013-03-12). "Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W D Hamilton by Ullica Segerstrale: review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  7. ^ "Ullica Segerstrale". IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  8. ^ "Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton". Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press. 2013-03-01. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  9. ^ Campbell, Colin (1986-11-09). "ANATOMY OF A FIERCE ACADEMIC FEUD". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  10. ^ Segerstrale, Ullica (March 1986). "Colleagues in conflict: An 'in vivo' analysis of the sociobiology controversy". Biology & Philosophy. 1 (1): 53–87. doi:10.1007/bf00127089. ISSN 0169-3867.
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