Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle (born October 10, 1945) is an American sociologist and historian of science who is professor of sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. ^{[3] [4]}

Segerstråle’s published nonfiction books include Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond (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]}

Early life and education

Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle was born October 10, 1945 in Finland. ^[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]}

Recognition

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. ^[11]

Books

• Segerstråle, Ullica, ed. (2000). Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society. SUNY Press.
• Segerstråle, Ullica (2000). Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond. Oxford University Press.
• Segerstråle, Ullica (2013). Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton. Oxford University Press. ISBN  978-0-19-860727-4.

References

External links

• Faculty page
• Ullica Segerstråle publications indexed by Google Scholar

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