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Keith Benson
Professor of History of Biology
University of British Columbia
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Keith R. Benson is an historian of biology, with a special interest in the history of biology in North America, the history of marine sciences, the history of developmental biology, and biology and society. He served as Professor in the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Washington until 2002, when he became Program Officer for Science and Technology Studies at the National Science Foundation (Washington, DC). He is co-editor of The Development of American Biology and The American Expansion of Biology, edited the recent translation of Jacques Roger’s classic book, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-century France, and is co-editor with Fritz Rehbock of The Pacific and Beyond, a multi-authored history of oceanography. He is an active member of the History of Science Society and is currently Treasurer of the International Society of the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB). In the summer of 2004, he accepted the position of Principal of Green College at UBC, where he is also a Professor in the Department of History.
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