Segerstrale Named as Camras Program Development Director
Ullica Segerstrale, Professor of Sociology, has been appointed Program Development Director for IIT's thriving Camras program. Together with Associate Provost Mike Gosz, the Camras students, and members of the Advisory Board, she will explore new ways to realize Marvin Camras' famous triple vision — Research, Service, and Leadership — while aligning new ideas with existing initiatives. A Harvard graduate, she is a strong believer in Harvard's General Education program, in which she has been teaching, and enjoys working with students.
As an administrator, Segerstrale has chaired the Social Sciences Department, helped expand IIT's Public Administration Program and develop its Chinese constituency, and co-directed IIT's first Summer in Paris program. Among her awards are the Julia Beveridge award for leadership and service, the Booz Allen Hamilton Excellence in Teaching and Service Award, an O.A.S.I.S award for student support, and two recognitions for leadership of IPRO projects.
Segerstrale's record of scholarship includes her internationally acclaimed book Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond, two edited books, dozens of articles and book chapters, numerous keynote addresses and presentations in academic lecture series, a visiting professorship at ETH in Zurich, membership in the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, and Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Rockefeller fellowships. She is currently completing Nature's Oracle, an intellectual biography of the evolutionist W. D. (Bill) Hamilton.
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