Ullica Segerstråle

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]

Ullica Segerstråle
Born	Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle October 10, 1945 Finland
Nationality	American
Education	University of Helsinki University of Pennsylvania Harvard University
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2002)[1] Illinois Institute of Technology Board of Trustees Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2017)[2]
Scientific career
Fields	History of science Sociology of science
Institutions	Illinois Institute of Technology
Thesis	Whose truth shall prevail? Moral and scientific interests in the sociobiology controversy (1983)

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

1. "Ullica Segerstråle". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
2. "2017 Excellence in Teaching Awards Announced". IIT Today. Illinois Institute of Technology. 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
3. "Contributor biographical information for Library of Congress control number 00703257". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
4. Hoyt, Erich (1997-03-21). The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants. Simon and Schuster. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-684-83045-2. ...Ullica Segerstråle, a sociologist and historian of science...
5. "Segerstrale Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts". IIT Today. Illinois Institute of Technology. 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
6. Gee, Maggie (2013-03-12). "Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W D Hamilton by Ullica Segerstrale: review". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
7. Finlands ridderskaps och adels kalender 1992, p. 542. Esbo 1991. ISBN 951-9417-26-5
8. Segerstråle (2013).
9. Campbell, Colin (1986-11-09). "Anatomy of a Fierce Academic Feud". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
10. Segerstrale, Ullica (March 1986). "Colleagues in conflict: An 'in vivo' analysis of the sociobiology controversy". Biology & Philosophy. 1 (1): 53–87. doi:10.1007/bf00127089. ISSN 0169-3867. S2CID 170270819.
11. "Ullica Segerstrale". IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences. Illinois Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2018-09-16.

External links

• Faculty page
• Ullica Segerstråle publications indexed by Google Scholar