The Next President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology
Posted on Aug 20, 2015 | Comments 0
Marsha L. Richmond, associate professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit, has been named president-elect of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Dr. Richmond will serve as president-elect until the society’s biennial meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2017. She will then serve a two-year term as president until the society’s 2019 meeting.
Dr. Richmond’s research is focused on heredity, genetics, evolution, and cell theory in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has completed a book manuscript entitled The Making of a Heretic: Richard Goldschmidt and Germanic Genetics, 1900-1940.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Richmond earned a Ph.D. at Indiana University in Bloomington.
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