Erik Peterson

Transatlantic History of Science, especially biology and anthropology in UK, France, Germany, and USA
Eugenics and Social Darwinism
The Scientific Concept of Race
Science and Popular Culture
Biology Education & Textbooks

Outstanding Student Advisor Award, University of Alabama (2015)
Honored Instructor Award, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2011)
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, SES-0849138 (2009 – 2010)
University of Notre Dame, Zahm Research Grant (2008)
Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Notre Dame (2006 – 2007)
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Faculty/Graduate student seminar in theology and science, University of Notre Dame (2006 – 2007)
Graduate Student Associate, Egenis ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, Exeter, United Kingdom (2005)

with James Bindon (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology), One or Many? An Episodic History of Science & Race Since Christopher Columbus (expected 2019).
The Tame Magicians: Churchill’s Scientists and the Politics of Queer(expected 2021).

with Kostas Kampourakis, “Mendel, Mendelism and Education: 150 years since the ‘Versuche’,” Science & Education 24 (1&2) Berlin: Springer, 2015: 1-228. (University of Geneva, Switzerland) DOI: 10.1007/S11191-014-9722-X

“Race and Evolution in Antebellum Alabama: the Polygenist Prehistory We’d Rather Ignore,” in Evolution Education in the American South: Culture, Politics, and Resources in and Around Alabama, eds. W. Evans, C. Lynn, A. Glaze, and L. Reed (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2017).
with Kostas Kampourakis, “The Paradigmatic Mendel at the Sesquicentennial of ‘Versuche über Pflantzen-Hybriden’,” Science & Education 24 (1&2) 2015: 1-8.
“The Conquest of Vitalism or the Eclipse of Organicism? The 1930s Cambridge Organiser Project and the Social Network of Mid-Twentieth-Century Biology,” The British Journal for the History of Science 47 (2) 2014: 281-304. DOI: 10.1017/S0007087413000435
“The Excluded Philosophy of Evo-Devo? Revisiting Waddington’s Failed Attempt to Embed Alfred North Whitehead’s ‘Organicism’ in Evolutionary Biology,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 33 (4) 2011: 301-320.
“William Bateson from Balanoglossus to Materials for the Study of Variation: the Transatlantic Roots of Discontinuity and the (Un)naturalness of Selection,” Journal of the History of Biology 41 (2) 2008: 267–305.

with Daniel J. McKaughan, “Methodological Naturalism” in New Catholic Encyclopedia (Suppl. 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy). Robert Fastiggi, et al., eds. (Detroit: Gale-Cengage Learning and the Catholic University of America Press, 2013).

“Beware the Geno-hype; or, How To Discuss Scientific Epistemology With Those Who Ignore It.” Review of Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think About Human Evolution by Jonathan Marks, Science & Education 25 (2016): 691–696, doi:10.1007/s11191-016-9837-3.
“The Baubles of Biotech; or, That’s the Spirit.” Review of The Gene Jockeys by Nicolas Rasmussen, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 54 (2015): 124-26.
Review of The Universe Within, by Neil Shubin. Books & Culture (published online: print: October 2013).
Review of Mutation: the History of an Idea from Darwin to Genomics, by Elof Axel Carlson. Science & Education (May 2013).
Review of The Egg and Sperm Race: the Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth, by Matthew Cobb. Science & Education (2012 / doi: 10.1007/s11191-011-9375-y).
Review of Evolution: the History of an Idea, 25^thAnniversary Edition, by Peter J. Bowler. Science & Education (2011): 557–62.

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