Nicolaas A. Rupke

Rupke teaches courses in the history of “science, politics and the public good,” dealing with animal behavior as it relates to human morality, with Darwin and his critics, scientists as political leaders, and medical history.

Nicolaas A. Rupke

Nicolaas A. Rupke

Johnson Professor of History

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. Princeton University 1972, summa cum laude
  • M.A. Princeton University, 1970
  • B.S. University of Groningen, 1968

Research

  • History of science and medicine
  • National science of Great Britain and Germany
  • Science & society
  • Science & religion
  • History of evolutionary biology
  • Scientific biography

Teaching

  • HIST 195 Great Moments in the History of Science
  • HIST 295 Animal Behavior and Human Morality, 1800-Present
  • HIST 295 The Scientist as National Hero
  • HIST 295 Doomsday Science Then and Now
  • HIST 395 Darwin and His Critics: The History of Evolutionary Biology

Current Research

The non-Darwinian tradition in evolutionary biology. A scientific biography of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.