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Education
PhD, 2000
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
MPhil, 1996
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
BA, 1992
History, Rutgers College, Rutgers University
Academic Positions
2010‒
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
2006-10
Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
2000-6
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
1999-00
Charles and Katharine Darwin Research Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge
Leadership Roles
2025–
Editor-in-Chief, Metascience
2019-21
President, International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (President-Elect 2017‒9; Past President 2019‒21)
2014-17
Director, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds
2014-16
President, British Society for the History of Science (previously Vice President, 2013‒4, and again in 2016‒7)
2012-17
Editor-in-Chief, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2006-8
Chair, Division of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds
Honours and Awards
2025
J. B. S. Haldane Lecture, Genetics Society
2025
MacLennan Lecture, University of King’s College and Dalhousie University
2024
Election to the Fellowship of the Linnean Society of London
2024
Pickstone Prize (shortlist), British Society for the History of Science, for best scholarly book in the history of science in English (for Disputed Inheritance)
2022‒26
STEM Trustee, Science Museum Group
2017‒19
Major Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust
2017
Honorary Life Fellowship, Adelphi Genetics Forum
2016
Thomas S. Hall Lecture in History and Philosophy of Science, Washington University in St. Louis
2015
Innes Lecture in the History of Science, John Innes Centre, Norwich
2015
Darwin Memorial Lecture, Shrewsbury
2012‒13
Midcareer Fellowship, British Academy
2010
Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, History of Science Society, for best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history (for The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language)
2010
Visiting Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2004
Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust
1999
Singer Prize, British Society for the History of Science, for best essay by an early-career researcher (for “Morgan’s Canon, Garner’s Phonograph, and the Evolutionary Origins of Language and Reason”)
PhD Students
2024‒
Elizabeth Schulz, “The ‘Great Tree of Life’: Darwinism, Evolution, and the Evolutionary Tree” (WRoCAH PhD studentship)
2023‒
YuYou Wu, “Naturalism, Cognitive Science, and the Case of Scientific Anti-Realism” (China Scholarship Council PhD studentship, jointly supervised with Juha Saatsi)
2023‒
Aswin Valsala Narayanan, “Interdisciplinary Research Cultures in Mid-20th Century British Science: The Working Worlds of AI Pioneer Donald Michie (1923‒2007).” (WRoCAH CDA PhD studentship with British Library, jointly supervised with Jonathan Pledge.)
2022‒
Frank Cui, “Byron and the ‘Epicurean system’: His Negotiations with His Contemporary Intellectual Culture.” (Jointly supervised with John Whale, School of English)
2021‒
Stefan Bernhardt-Radu, “Julian Huxley’s Developmental-Evolutionary Genetics in the 1920s.” (Faculty funding)