Ullica Segerstrale, Ph.D.
Professor of SociologyDevelopment Director, Camras Program
Office: 3301 S. Dearborn Street
Siegel Hall Room 107
Chicago, IL 60616
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 312.567.5134
Fax: 312.567.6821
Email:
segerstrale@iit.edu
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Expertise
- Scientific creativity, social impact of emerging technologies, human enhancement
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, Sociology (1983)
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Communications (1975)
- M.S., University of Helsinki, Sociology (1973)
- M.S., University of Helsinki, Organic Chemistry & Molecular Biology (1970)
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Research:
Scientific creativity, social impact of emerging technologies, human enhancement
Major Accomplishments:
Ullica Segerstrale is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. Segerstrale has written and lectured widely on science and social values, the ethics of research, the social impact of emerging technologies, and the debates about what it means to be human. She is currently completing Nature’s Oracle, an intellectual biography of the evolutionist Bill Hamilton (“the Darwin of the 20th century”) to be published by Oxford University Press.
Segerstrale holds a PhD in sociology from Harvard, a MA in communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MS in organic and biochemistry from the University of Helsinki. She has held the position of Senior Researcher at the National Academy of Finland, Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) in Bielefeld, Germany, and Visiting Professor of the interdisciplinary Collegium Helveticum at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Her research has been supported by among others the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Sloan Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio residency). She is an elected member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Segerstrale is an Associate Editor of Science Studies and serves on a number of editorial boards of journals, including Social Epistemology and Evolutionary Psychology. She has organized a number of international conferences, among others on “What Does It Mean to Be Human” in Zurich and given a number of invited public lectures, among others to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Royal Society of New Zealand, the University of Vienna, and the European Molecular Biological Laboratory in Heidelberg as well as several keynote addresses, among others to the International Society for Human Ethology and the International Council of Science.
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
Nature’s Oracle: A Life of W. D. Hamilton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Editor, Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
Co-Editor (with Peter Molnar), Nonverbal Communication: Where Nature Meets Culture (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997).
