Contributors

DENIS R. ALEXANDER is director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. He read biochemistry at Oxford University before researching for a Ph.D. in neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Following this he spent fifteen years in academic positions in the Middle East, most recently (1981-86) as associate professor of biochemistry at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Upon his return to the UK he worked at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) and from 1989 to 2008 at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, where he was chair of the Molecular Immunology Programme and Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development. Dr. Alexander has published numerous articles and reviews, particularly in the research field of lymphocyte signaling and development, most recently in the New England Journal of Medicine (2008). He is also editor of the journal Science & Christian Belief and contributes papers as part of the Cambridge Papers writing group. He is the author of Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century (Lion, 2001) and Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? (Monarch, 2008). He has also edited Can We Be Sure about Anything? Science, Faith and Postmodernity (Apollos, 2005) and co-authored (with Robert S. White) Beyond Belief: Science, Faith and Ethical Challenges (Lion,

2004).

PETER HARRISON is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the Uni­ versity of Oxford. he has published extensively in the area of cultural and intel­ lectual history, and has a particular interest in the philosophical, scientific, and religious thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His books include “Re­ ligion” and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1990), The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (Cambridge UniversityPress, 1998),andTheFallofManandtheFoundationsofScience (CambridgeUni­ versity Press, 2007). A fellow of Harris Manchester College and director of the Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford, his research presently focuses on disciplinary boundaries

in early modern science, and on changing conceptions of science and of religion in the modern period.

NIKOLAI KREMENTSOV is associate professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Toronto University, Canada, and was previously in the Institute of the History of Science and Technology, the USSR Academy of Sciences. He has held a wide range of visiting fellowships, including those at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies (Washington, DC), the University of Edinburgh, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and Indiana University. Dr. Krementsov is the author of Stalinist Science (Princeton University Press, 1997), The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and International Science between the World Wars: The Case of Genetics

(Routledge, 2005). His current research interests include the history of biomedical sciences in 1920s Russia and the history of Cold War science.

EDWARD J. LARSON is the University Professor in History and holds the Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University and is a senior fellow with the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. An author of seven books, co-author or co-editor of seven books, and author or co-author of over 100 published articles, Professor Larson writes mostly about issues of law, science, and medicine from a historical perspective. His first book, Trial and Error: The American Contro­ versy Over Creation and Evolution (Oxford University Press, 1985, with expanded editions 1989 and 2002), chronicles the legal battles over teaching evolution in American public schools. His second book, Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), examines the legislative history of eugenics. For his 1997 book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Basic Books), Larson became the first sitting law professor to receive the Pulitzer Prize in History. In 2001, Larson published Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands

(Basic Books). His other recent publications include Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Random House, 2004) and A Magnificent Catastro­ phe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign (Free Press, 2007). His areas of expertise are history of biology and medicine, health, science, and technology law, and legal history.

ALISTER E. MCGRATH is professor of Theology, Ministry and Education at King’s College, London, and has an academic background in both theology and biophysics. Professor McGrath is a prolific author and his best-known book is probably

Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life (Blackwell, 2004). Other recent books include The Foundations of Dialogue in Science and Religion (Blackwell, 1998), Thomas F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography (T&T Clark, 1999), A

Scientific Theology, in three volumes (T&T Clark, 2001–3), The Re-enchantment of Nature (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002), The Science of God: An Introduction to Scien­ tific Theology (T&T Clark, 2004), The Twilight of Atheism (Rider, 2004), The Or­ der of Things: Explorations in Scientific Theology (Blackwell, 2006), The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (SPCK, 2007), and The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology (Blackwell, 2008). From 2006 to 2008, Professor McGrath was Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, allowing him to concentrate on several major research projects, including the reformulation and renewal of natural theology, the 2009 Gifford Lectures at Aberdeen University, and the 2009–10 Hulsean Lectures at Cambridge University.

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM is assistant professor in the Department of History, University of Maryland, and previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Her current research project, “Animal models of behavior: anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, and cultures of observation,” addresses how and why zoological and primatological research on animal behavior came to compete with anthropological studies of human cultures as methods of providing reliable information about human nature.

RONALD L. NUMBERS is the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including, most recently, Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Harvard University Press, 2009). For five years (1989–1993) he edited Isis. He is completing a history of science in America (for Basic Books), editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science, and religion for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and co-editing, with David Lindberg, the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. A former Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an effective member of the International Academy of the History of Science. He is a past president of both the American Society of Church History and the History of Science Society, which recently awarded him the Sarton Medal for lifetime scholarly achievement. In 2005 he was elected to a four-year term as president of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology.

PETER HANNS REILL is professor and director of the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California–Los Angeles. His books include The German Enlightenment and the

Rise of Historicism (University of California Press, 1975), Visions of Empire: Voy­ ages, Botany, and Representations of Nature (co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 1996), What’s Left of the Enlightenment?: A Postmodern Question (co-editor, Stanford University Press, 2001), Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment (University of California Press, 2005), and Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the Enlightenment (co-editor, University of Toronto Press, 2008). Professor Reill’s research interests are in modern European history, intellectual history, the history of science, Germany, and philosophy of history.

SHIRLEY A. ROE is professor of history and head of the History Department at the University of Connecticut. Her publications include “Radical Nature in the Ency­ clopédie,” in Science, History, and the Social Role of the Man of Knowledge, edited by Garland Allen and Roy MacLeod (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002); Science Against the Unbelievers: The Correspondence of Bonnet and Needham, 1760–1780, with Renato G. Mazzolini (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 243; Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1986); Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller–Wolff Debate (Cambridge University Press, 1981). Professor Roe’s current research interests include the social/ political context of controversies over biological materialism in the late eighteenth century, the formation of racial views of humans, and science and social issues.

NICOLAAS RUPKE is Lower Saxony research professor of the History of Science at Göttingen University. His monographs include Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin (University of Chicago Press, 2009), and Alexander von Humboldt: A Meta­ biography (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Among his edited volumes is Emi­ nent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion (Peter Lang Verlag, 2009). He is currently writing a monograph about the non-Darwinian tradition in nineteenthand twentieth-century biology. Rupke is a fellow of Germany’s National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

MICHAEL RUSE is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, was Gifford Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Scotland, in 2001, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Ruse has published widely on the evolution controversy in North America; his books include the following recent titles: Debating Design: Darwin to DNA (co-edited with William Dembski, Cambridge University Press, 2003), Darwinian Heresies (co-edited with A. Lustig and R. Richards, Cambridge University Press, 2003), Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? (Harvard University Press, 2003), The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates (Rutgers University Press, 2000), Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2001), The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (2nd ed.,

University of Chicago Press, 1999), and Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy (2nd ed., Blackwell, 1988). Ruse has continuing research interests in Darwinism and its reception, the philosophy and ethics of Darwinism, and the interactions between science and religion.

SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM is lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is completing a book about the impact of British colonization in Sri Lanka, with particular attention to science and medicine. He is the author of Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2005). This was hailed as the first substantive account of the entanglement of science and Christianity outside the Western world in the nineteenth century. He has published articles in leading journals on a range of topics on the history of the British Empire and has held lectureships at the University of Cambridge and University College London.

JONATHAN R. TOPHAM is senior lecturer in History of Science at the University of Leeds. Among his co-publications are Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index (HRI Online, 2005), Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media (Ashgate, 2004), and two volumes of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press, 1985–). His research relates mainly to the cultural history of science in early nineteenthcentury Britain, and to the history of the life and earth sciences. He has published extensively on science and religion in early nineteenth-century Britain—more especially on natural theology and theologies of nature—and intends to complete a monograph on the Bridgewater Treatises shortly. He has also helped to pioneer a new approach to the subject of science and its publics, drawing particularly on the historiography of the book, and is currently preparing a book-length study of science and print culture in Britain, 1789–1832.

PAUL WEINDLING is the Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine in the Department of History, Oxford Brookes University. His publications include Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe 1890–1945 (Oxford University Press, 2000), and Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent 1945–55 (Palgrave Macmillan,

2004; paperback 2006). He recently completed John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Rochester University Press, 2009). He edited a volume on International Health Organisations and Movements 1918–1939 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), co-edited with Marius Turda Blood and Homeland: Eu­ genics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900–1940 (CEU

Budapest, 2007), and edited the journal Social History of Medicine (1992–8). His research interests include international health organizations in the twentieth century, the medical emigration to Britain in the 1930s and ’40s, and Nazi medical war crimes. He directs an Arts and Humanities Research Council project grant to reconstruct the life histories of victims of Nazi human experiments.