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Sharon Kingsland
Department Chair

History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

phone 410-516-7501
danielle@jhu.edu

Sharon Kingsland, Ph.D.
Department Chair

History of biology, especially ecology, genetics and behavioral biology; science in America.


CURRENT PROJECTS: The history of physiological ecology, relationship of ecology and genetics to agriculture, American biology in the post-Second World War period.

Contact Information:
Telephone: 410-516-7505
E-mail: sharon@jhu.edu 
3505 North Charles St. Baltimore Maryland, 21218.


Representative Publications:

"Maintaining Continuity through a Scientific Revolution: A Rereading of E. B. Wilson and T. H. Morgan on Sex Determination and Mendelism", Isis 98(2007):468-488.

The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

M.A. Palmer, et al. "Ecological Science and Sustainability for the 21st Century", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(2005), 4-11.

"Conveying the Intellectual Challenge of Ecology: An Historicial Perspective", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(2004), 367-74.

Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology. 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 1995.

"Designing Nature Reserves: Adapting Ecology to Real-World Problems", Endeavour 26(2002), 9-14.

"Creating a Science of Nature Reserve Design: Perspectives from History", Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 2002 

"Neodarwinism and Natural History," in Science in the Twentieth Century, ed. John Krige and Dominique Pestre (Harwood Academic Publishing, 1997).

"Economics and Evolution: Alfred James Lotka and the Economy of Nature," Natural Images in Economics , ed. Philip Morowski (Cambridge University Press, 1994).

"An Elusive Science: Ecological Enterprise in the Southwestern United States," in Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences , ed. Michael Shortland (British Society for the History of Science, 1993).

"The Battling Botanist: Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Mutation Theory, and the Rise of Experimental Evolutionary Biology in America, 1900-1912," Isis 82 (1991), 479-509.

"Toward a Natural History of the Human Psyche: Charles Manning Child, Charles Judson Herrick, and the Dynamic View of the Individual at the University of Chicago," The Expansion of American Biology, ed. Keith R. Benson (Rutgers University Press, 1991).

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