Core
Faculty
Michael Ruse
Philosophy, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor; Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Bristol, 1970. Dissertation: The Nature of Biology. Specialties: Philosophy of Biology (especially Darwinism), Ethics, the History and Philosophy of Science.
Neil Jumonville
History, William Warren Rogers Professor; Ph.D. in History, Harvard University, 1987. Dissertation: “The Gray Dawn: The New York Intellectuals and the Function of Criticism.” Specialties: U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History, American Studies, Historiography, History of Science.
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~njumonvi/
Frederick Davis
History, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, 2001. Dissertation: “Pesticides and Toxicology: Episodes in the Evolution of Environmental Risk Assessment.” Specialties: History of Science and Medicine, Environmental History, U.S. History.
http://www.fsu.edu/~history/staff/davis.html
Matthew Day
Religion, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Contemporary Religious Thought, Brown University, 2003. Dissertation: “The Gods in Design Space: Darwinian Reflections on Mind and Religion.” Specialties: history of religion and science in the West, philosophy of religion, cognitive science of religion.
http://www.fsu.edu/~religion/faculty/day.htm
Joseph Travis
Biological Science, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor; Ph.D. in Zoology, Duke University, 1980. Dissertation: "The Ecological Genetics of Larval Development in Hylid Frogs." Specialties: Population Biology, Life History Evolution, Ecological Genetics.
http://bio.fsu.edu/~jtravis/
Additional Contributing Faculty for the HPS Program
Robert Gellately
Earl R. Beck Professor of History; Ph.D. in Modern European History. London University, 1974. Specialties: Modern European History, comparative global history, including the comparative history of racism, eugenics, and genocide.
Russell Dancy
Philosophy, Professor and Chair; Ph.D. in Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966. Dissertation: “Possibility and Eternity in Aristotle.” Specialties: ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of language.
Piers Rawling
Philosophy, Professor; Ph.D. from the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1989. Dissertation: Choice and Action. Specialties: decision and game theory, ethics, logic.
John Kelsay
Religion, Richard L. Rubenstein Professor and Chair; Ph.D. in Ethics, University of Virginia, 1985. Dissertation: “Religion and Morality in Islam: A Proposal Concerning Ethics in The Formative Period.” Specialties: Religious ethics, particularly in relation to the Islamic tradition.
Aline H. Kalbian
Religion, Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Religious Ethics, University of Virginia, 1996. Dissertation: "Challenges to a Tradition: Proportionalism and Feminist Ethics in Catholic Moral Theology." Specialties: Catholic ethics, Gender and Ethics, Bioethics.
http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/summer2005/departments/portrait.html
Caroline Joan (“Kay”) Picart
English, Associate Professor; Courtesy Associate Professor of Law, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1996. Dissertation: “Reconfiguring the 'feminine': Politico-aesthetics, myth and gender in Nietzsche.” Specialties: Critical Theory, Philosophy and Literature, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Autoethnography and Film Studies, Philosophy/Sociology of Science.
http://english3.fsu.edu/~kpicart/
Linda Saladin-Adams
English, Associate Professor and Director of the Interdepartmental Certificate Program in Critical Theory; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1985. Dissertation: Specialties: Gender issues and nineteenth and twentieth-century culture, particularly as informed by science, medicine, and cinematography
http://english.fsu.edu/faculty/lsaladin.htm
Meegan Kennedy
English, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. Brown University, 2000. Dissertation: "A Curious Literature: Reading the Medical Case History from the Royal Society to Freud." Specialties: Victorian literature and culture, theory and history of the British novel, fiction of empire, literature and medicine, Victorian literature and science.
http://english3.fsu.edu/~mkennedy/
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin
Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Classics, University of Iowa, 2000. Dissertation: “Ennead VI.6: The Concept of Multiplicity in Plotinus’ Universal Hierarchy”. Specialties: Neoplatonism, Neopythagoreanism, Concept of Number, Ancient Science and Medicine.
http://online.fsu.edu/webstars/stars/slaveva.html
J. Anthony Stallins
Geography, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Geography, University of Georgia, 2000. Dissertation: "Barrier Island Morphology and Dune Vegetation Pattern and Process in the Georgia Bight." Specialties: Biogeography, History of Ecology, Complexity Theory.
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jstallin/home.html
Thomas Houpt
Biological science, Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Physiology, Harvard University, 1991. Dissertation: “Benzodiazepines And GABAergic Modulation Of Light Input To The Hamster Circadian System.” Specialities: Ingestive Behavior, Learning, Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields.
http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/faculty/houpt/main.html
Thomas Miller
Biological Science, Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Zoology, Michigan State University, 1985. Dissertation: "Competition and Complex Interactions Among Species: Community Structure in an Early Old-Field Plant Community." Interest Areas: Community ecology, plant evolutionary biology.
http://bio.fsu.edu/~miller/HOMEPAGE/
Brian Inouye
Biological Science, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Zoology, Duke University, 1998. Dissertation: “The Role of Aggregation at Nested Spatial Scales for the Coexistence of Competitors ”. Specialties: Community Ecology and Species Interactions, Population Dynamics.
http://bio.fsu.edu/~binouye/
Austin Mast
Biological Science, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000. Dissertation: “Molecular Systematics of the Subtribe Banksiinae (Banksia and Dryandra; Proteaceae), with Insights into the Historical Biogeography of Australia and the Origin of Xeromorphic Leaf Traits.” Specialties: Plant Systematics and Evolution, Historical Biogeography.
http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-mast.php
Scott Steppan
Biological Science, Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1995. Dissertation : "Phylogenetic relationships of the phyllotine rodents (Sigmodontinae) and the evolution of phenotypic patterns of covariation in Phyllotis." Specialities: Phylogenetics, Macroevolution, Mammalian Systematics.
http://bio.fsu.edu/~steppan/
Nora Underwood
Biological Science, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Zoology, Duke University, 1998. Dissertation: “The Interaction of Plant Quality And Herbivore Population Dynamics”. Specialties: Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Insect Interactions, Population Dynamics.
http://bio.fsu.edu/~nunderwood/homepage/
http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-underwood.php
Janie L. Wulff
Biological Science, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Biology, Yale University, 1986. Dissertation: “Population Ecology of Fragmenting Caribbean Demosponges of Branching Morphology.” Specialties: Ecology and evolution of mutualism, Biogeography of marine organisms, Coral reef ecology and conservation, Sponge ecology and biology.
http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-wulff.php
Dean Falk
Anthropology. Professor and Chair; Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1976. Dissertation: “External Neuroanatomy of the Cercopithecoidea.” Specialties: Paleoanthropology, primate behavior, evolution of the brain and cognition, origins of prelinguistic substrates and language.
http://www.research.fsu.edu/spotlight/falk.html
http://www.fsu.edu/profiles/falk/
William A. Parkinson
Anthropology, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1999, Dissertation: "The Social Organization of Early Copper Age Tribes on the Great Hungarian Plain." Specialties: Archaeological Method and Theory, History of Archaeology, European Prehistory, Tribal Societies.
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/people/faculty/?parkinson
Joseph Hellweg
Anthropology, Assistant Professor; Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Virginia, 2001. Dissertation: “The Mande Hunters’ Movement of Côte d’Ivoire: Ritual, Ethics, and Performance in the Transformation of Civil Society, 1990-1997.” Specialties and Research Interests: HIV/AIDS, anthropology of epidemiology, history of sentinel surveillance practices, health promotion through performance, community research; West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire.
http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/people/faculty/?hellweg
Penny J. Gilmer
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Professor; Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1972, D. Sc.Ed. in Science Education, Curtin University of Technology, 2004. Biochemistry Dissertation: A Stopped-flow and Temperature-jump Kinetic Investigation of the Mechanism of Binding of 5-deoxypyridoxal to Pyridoxamine-pyruvate Transaminase. Science Education Doctoral Thesis: Transforming Biochemistry Teaching Through Action Research: Utilizing Collaborative Learning and Technology. Specialties: Biochemistry, Science Education, Ethics in Science.
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~pgilmer/
Thomas E. Joiner, Jr.
Psychology, The Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology; Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, 1993. Dissertation: “Depression, Rejection, and the Interplay of Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification Strivings Among College Students and their Roommates.” Specialties: The interpersonal, cognitive, and neurobiological causes, correlates, and consequences of depression and related disorders (e.g., anxiety, bulimia nervosa), the nature and treatment of suicidal ideation and behavior.
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~joinerlab/Personnel%20Folder/TEJ.html
Jeffrey P. Spike
Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Medicine. Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1987. Dissertation: “Anomalous Monism and the Autonomy of Psychology.” Specialties: Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Research Ethics.
http://med.fsu.edu/FacultyProfile.aspx?activeDirectoryId=jeffrey.spike
Sherry A. Southerland
Middle & Secondary Science Education, Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Science Education, Louisiana State University, 1994. Dissertation: "Factors Influencing Conceptual Change in Evolution". Specialties: Cultural and Social Influences on Conceptual Change, Nature of Science, Biology Learning.
http://www.fsu.edu/~mse/Faculty/southerland.html
Ellen Granger
Director, Office of Science Teaching Activities
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1987; Clinical Educator Trainer Certification, Florida Department of Education, 2000; G.E.M.S. (Great Explorations in Math and Science) Trainer Certification, University of California, Berkley, 2000
http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty-granger.php
Steven Gey
J.D. in 1982 from Columbia University School of Law, where he was editor of Columbia Law Review. Named Professor of the Year by the Student Bar Association several times. Faculty advisor to Florida State University Law Review since 1987. Before joining Florida State University College of Law's faculty in 1985, associated with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City.
http://www.law.fsu.edu/faculty/sgey.html
David Johnson
Ph.D. Cornell 1993. Professor of English, Professor of Humanities, and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities.
http://www.english.fsu.edu/faculty/djohnson.htm
http://www.fsu.edu/~proghum
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