Ronald L. Numbers
Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine
|
 |
Special interests and recent research:
The history of science, medicine, and religion in America. Currently writing a one-volume history of science in America since European settlement and co-editing (with David Lindberg) an eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. Additional works in progress include co-edited volumes on Science and the Christian Tradition (with David Lindberg), and on Modern Science in National and International Context (with David Livingstone).
Recent publications:
Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion (ed.) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
- Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
The Creationists (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992). Reprinted by University of California Press, 1993. New edition published by Harvard University Press, 2006, under the title The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design.
- When Science and Christianity Meet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). Edited with David C. Lindberg.
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), edited with John Stenhouse.
Darwinism Comes to America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
Additional Information:
- Recently I have been focusing most of my research and writing on finishing Science and the Americans: A History, under contract to Basic Books.
- To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Terry Lectures, Yale University invited me to deliver one of the 2006 Terry Lectures (to be published by Yale University Press).
- In the summer of 2005 I 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.
- In 2005 the American Association for the Advancement of Science elected me a fellow.
- I currently serve on the editorial boards of Religion and American Culture, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie/Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, and the recently created Outreach and Education in Evolution. I continue to edit a series of books on "Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context" for the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Regularly offered courses:
- 331: Science, Medicine, and Religion
- 394: Science in America
- 504: Society and Health Care in American History
- 915: Seminar on Science in America