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EDWARD J. LARSON Pepperdine University Phone: (310) 506-7593 24255 Pacific Coast Highway SOL 300 Fax: (310) 506-4063 Malibu, CA 90263 E-mail: elarson@pepperdine.edu

EMPLOYMENT:

Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law and University Professor of History, Pepperdine University, 2006-present.

Douglas Southhall Freeman Visiting Professor, University of Richmond, Spring 2017.

Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford University, Winter & Spring, 2012.

Visiting Professor of Law, University of Melbourne, Winter 2011 & Winter2016

Richard B. Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Chair in Law, University of Georgia, 1987-08 (Ass't Prof. to 1991; Asso. Prof. to 1996, Dept. Chair 2000-04)

John Adams Chair, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, Leiden University, Spring 2001.

Counsel, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Ed. 1986-87

Associate Counsel, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. Congress, 1983-86

Attorney - Davis, Wright & Tremaine, Seattle, Washington, 1979-82

Counsel, Washington State House of Representatives, Olympia, Washington, 1981-82

Analyst, Wisconsin State Senate, Madison, Wisconsin, 1974-76

DEGREES:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, History of Science, 1984

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1979

B.A., Williams College, 1974

D.H.L., Ohio State University, 2004 (honorary doctorate)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

George Washington, Nationalist. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.

The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789. New York: Harper Collins, 2014.

Creationism in the Classroom: Cases, Statutes, and Commentary. St. Paul: West, 2012.

An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign. New York: Free Press, 2007.

The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007.

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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. NY: Random House, 2004, 2006 (with new afterword).

Evolution’s Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands. New York: Basic Books and London: Penguin, 2001.

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. New York: Basic Book, 1997, 2006 (with new afterword); recipient of 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History

Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, 1989 (expanded edition), 2003 (updated edition).

Co-Authored and Edited Books:

On Faith and Religion (with Michael Ruse). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow (with Jack Marshall). New York: Random House, 2007.

The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison (with Michael Winship). New York: Random House, 2005

Property Law: Cases and Materials (with J. Smith, et al.). New York: Aspen, 2004; 2nd ed. 2008; 3rd ed. 2013.

The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History (with Edward Caudill). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.

The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia (co-edited with Gary Ferngren and Darril Amundsen). NY: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Academic Articles and Book Chapters:

“A Constitutional Afterthought: The Origins of the Vice Presidency, 1787 to 1804, Pepperdine Law Review, vol. 44 (2017), pp. 515-34.

“The Scopes Trial,” in ed. Gary Ferngren, Science and Religion, A Historical Introduction, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2017), pp. 286-96.

"Transactional Leadership in a Transformative Election," in eds. G. Goethals and D. Bradburn, Politics Ethics and Change (Cheltenham, U.K.: Elgar, 2016), pp. 133-152.

“The Red Dawn of Geoengineering: The First Steps toward an Effective Governance for Stratospheric Injections,” Duke Law & Technology Review, vol. 14 (2016) pp. 157-191.

“Debt and Democracy: Forging a More Perfect Union,” Financial History, issue 112 (2015), pp. 20-23.

“The Common Law of Geoengineering: Building an Effective Governance for Stratospheric Injections,” Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 2 (2015), pp. 329-68.

“The Academy and Creationism,” Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, supp. 2 (2014), pp. 9360-62.

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“ID in the Courts: Anti-Evolutionism for the 21st Century,” American Journal of Legal History, vol. 54 (2014), pp. 147-167.

“Did Shackleton Care About Science?” Nimrod, vol. 7 (2013), pp. 24-39.

“Teaching Creation, Evolution, and the New Atheism in 21st Century America,” Mississippi Law Journal, vol. 82 (2013), pp. 997-1047.

“The Constitutionality of Lame-Duck Lawmaking: The Text, History, Intent, and Original Meaning of the Twentieth Amendment,” Utah Law Review (2012), pp. 707-58.

“Creation, Evolution, and the Boundaries of Science,” (with Ronald Numbers) Almagest, vol. 3 (2012), pp. 4-24.

“Turning the World Upside Down,” Nature, vol. 480 (2011), pp. 29-31.

“Public Science for a Global Empire: The British Quest for the South Magnetic Pole,” Isis, vol. 102 (2011), pp. 34-59.

“Poles Apart: Scott, Amundsen and Science,” Endeavour, vol. 35 (2011), pp. 129-36.

“Medical Rationing, Death Panels and the Rising Cost of Health Care,” Whittier Law School Law Review, vol. 33 (2011), pp. 13-25 (symposium article).

“Putting Buck v. Bell in Scientific and Historical Context: Response to Victoria F. Nourse,” Pepperdine Law Review, vol. 39 (2011), pp. 119-28 (symposium article).

“Anti-Canonical Considerations,” Pepperdine Law Review, vol. 39 (2011), pp. 1-11 (introduction to symposium issue).

“Greater Glory,” Scientific American, June 2011, pp. 32-37.

“Scopes Trial,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2012), forthcoming.

“An American Tragedy: Retelling the Leopold-Loeb Story in Popular Culture,” American Journal of Legal History, vol. 50 (2010), pp.119-156.

“The Natural History of Hell: The Galapagos before Darwin,” Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 61 (2010), pp. 37-44.

“Biology and the Emergence of the Eugenics Movement,” in eds. D. Alexander and R. Numbers, Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins, (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2010), pp. 165-191.

“Murder Will Out: Rethinking the Right of Publicity through One Classic Case,” Rutgers Law Review, vol. 61 (2009), pp. 101-32.

“Slavery in the Election of 1800,” in eds. P. Farber and H. Cravens, Race and Science (Corvallis: OSU Press, 2009), pp.17-31.

“‘I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically’: Darwin, God and 2500 Year History of the Debate,” Religion Dispatches, Nov. 28, 2009, at http://www.religiondispatches.org.

“Science and Religion in Historical Perspective: Response,” in ed. D. Yerxa, Recent Themes in the History of Science and Religion (Columbia: USC Press, 2009), pp.18-22.

“Introduction” and “Author’s Biography,” in Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, (New York: Modern Library, 2009).

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“Myth 20: That the Scopes Trial Ended in Defeat for Antievolutionism,” in ed. R. Numbers, Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 178-86.

“The Reception Darwinism in the Nineteenth Century: A Three Part Story,” Science and Christian Belief, vol. 21 (2009), pp. 3-24.

“Post Modern Developments in the Debate” in eds. R. Robbins and M. Cohen, Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation (Boston: Penguin, 2009), pp. 117-29.

“The Battle between Creation and Evolution in the Classroom,” in eds. R. Robbins and M. Cohen, Darwin and the Bible (Boston: Penguin, 2009), pp. 155-65.

“Approaching the Rubicon and Crossing the Bar: Washington’s Death and the Rise of Republican Rule,” Georgia Review, vol. 62 (2008), pp. 551-63.

“Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight,” Religion Dispatches, May 8, 2008, at http://www.religiondispatches.org/Gui/Content.aspx?Page=AR&Id=227

“Inheriting Inherit the Wind: Debating the Play as a Teaching Tool” (with D. Depew and R. Issetti), Evolution: Education and Outreach, vol. 1 (2008).

“The Revolution of 1800,” American History, vol. 42 (Dec. 2007), pp. 26-34.

“The Classroom Controversy: A History of the Dispute over Teaching Evolution,” ed. N. Comfort, Panda’s Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Controversy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007), pp. 63-82.

“Scienziati e Religione in America” (with L. Witham), Sapere, vol. 73 (Feb. 2007), pp. 58-65 (Italian).

“From Cruzan to Schaivo: Similar Bedfellows in Fact and at Law,” Constitutional Commentary, vol. 22 (2006), pp. 405-17.

“Evolution: New Developments” (with M. Arnold), Current, (Jan. 2005), pp. 3-8.

“Impact of HSA on Health Care Reform: Preliminary Results after One Year,” (with M. Dettmann), Wake Forest Law Quarterly, vol. 40 (2005), pp. 1087-119.

“Building a Nation out of Thirteen States: The Constitutional Convention and Preemption,” Pepperdine Law Review, vol. 33, (2005), pp. 7-24.

“Evolution’s New Look” (with M. Arnold), Wilson Quarterly (Fall 2004), pp. 60-73.

“Euthanasia in America – Past, Present and Future,” Michigan Law Review, 102 (2004), pp. 1301-18 (essay review).

“Wonderful Life: Debating Evolution in the Age of DNA,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 80 (Spring 2004), pp. 71-84.

“The Scopes Trial in History and Legend,” in eds. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, When Science and Christianity Meet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 245-64.

“The Meaning of Human Gene Testing for Disability Rights,” Cincinnati Law Review, 70 (2002), pp. 1-26.

“Origin Was Just a Beginning,” Science, 297 (2002), pp. 1812-13.

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“Congressional Power over Presidential Elections: Lessons from the Past and Reforms for the Future” (with D. Coenan), William and Mary Law Q., 43 (2002), pp. 851-926.

“The Scopes Trial,” in ed. Gary B. Ferngren, Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2002), pp. 289-98.

“Relations of Science and Religion,” in ed. Stanley I. Kutler, Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., vol. 7 (New York: Scribner’s, 2003), pp. 269-71.

“Clarence Darrow,” in ed. Kermit L. Hall, Oxford Companion to American Law (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002), pp. 718-19.

“Scopes Trial,” in ed. Paul S. Boyer, Oxford Companion to American History (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001), p. 693.

“Clarence Darrow,” in ed. Kermit L. Hall, Encyclopedia of the Midwest (New York: Garland, forthcoming).

“The Scopes Monkey Trial,” in ed. Brian Lamb, Booknotes Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped Our Country (New York: Public Affairs, 2001), pp. 197-205.

“Tales of Death: Storytelling in the Physician-Assisted Suicide Litigation,” Washburn Law Journal, vol.39 (2000), pp. 159-83.

“Law and Society in the Courtroom: Introducing the Trials of the Century,” University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, 68 (2000), pp. 543-48.

"Scopes Trial" and "Social Darwinism," in ed. M. Rothenberg, History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2000).

“The Cultural Wars at 75,” in ed. R. M. Cornelius, Selected Orations of William Jennings Bryan (Dayton: Bryan College, 2000), pp. 119-30.

“John Mitchell,” ed. J. Garraty, American National Biography, vol. 15 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 606-07.

“Scientists and Religion in America” (with L. Witham), Scientific American, vol. 281 (Sept. 1999), pp. 88-93.

“The Scopes Trial and the Evolving Concept of Freedom,” Virginia Law Review, vol. 85 (1999) pp. 503-29.

“Criminal Determinism in Twentieth-Century America,” in Eds. J. Botkin, et al., Genetics and Criminality: The Potential Misused Scientific Information in Court (Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Assn., 1999), pp. 31-36.

“Aping Humanity,” A.B.A. Updated on Law Education, summer, 1999, pp. 11-13.

“Confronting Scientific Authority with Religious Values: Eugenics in American History,” in T. Deny and G. Steward, Genetic Engineering (Grand Rapids: Kregal, 1999), pp. 105-26.

“Leading Scientists Still Reject God” (with L. Witham), Nature, v. 394 (1998), p. 313.

“The Limits of Advance Directives: A History and Assessment of the Patient Self-Determination Act” (with T. Eaton), Wake Forest Law Rev., v. 32 (1997), pp. 249-93.

“Scientists Still Keeping the Faith,” (with L. Witham), Nature, v. 386 (1997), 435-37.

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“Implementation of the Patient Self-Determination Act: A Comparison of Nursing Homes to Hospitals” (with M. Zwahr), Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol. 16 (1997), pp. 190-207.

"Original Intent and Article III" (with M. Wells), Tulane L. Rev., 70 (1995), 75-135.

"In the Finest, Most Womanly Way: Women in the Southern Eugenics Movement," American Journal of Legal History, vol. 39 (1995), pp. 119-47.

"Seeking Compassion in Dying: The Washington State Law Against Asserted Suicide," Seattle University Law Review, vol. 18 (1995), pp. 509-19.

"Prescription for Death: A Second Opinion," DePaul L. Rev., 44 (1995), pp. 461-82.

"Implementation and Impact of the Patient Self-Determination Act" (with Denise Parks et al.) Southern Medical Journal, vol. 87 (1994), pp. 971-77.

"The Blaine Amendment in State Constitutions," in ed. J. Skillen, The School-Choice Controversy, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1993, pp. 35-50.

"Human Genome Project: Half a Tithe for Ethics," National Forum, vol. 73 (Spring 1993), pp. 14-16.

"Making a Virtue of Endurance: The New York Academy of Sciences," New York History, vol. 73 (1992), pp. 459-67.

"Involuntary Sexual Sterilization of Incompetents in Alabama: Past, Present, and Future" (with L. Nelson), Alabama Law Review, vol. 43 (1992), pp. 399 - 444.

"The Rhetoric of Eugenics: Expert Authority and the Mental Deficiency Bill," British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 24 (1991), pp. 45-60.

"Experimenting with the Right to Die in the Laboratory of the States" (with T. Eaton), Georgia Law Review, vol. 31 (1991), pp. 1253 - 326.

"Breeding Better Georgian," Georgia J. of Southern Legal Hist., 1 (1991), pp. 53-79.

"Science in the American South Through the Eyes of Four Natural Historians, 1750-1850," Annals of Science, vol. 48 (1991), pp. 231-40.

"Belated Progress: The Enactment of Eugenic Legislation in Georgia," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science, vol. 46, (1991) pp. 44-64.

"Human Gene Therapy and the Law: An Introduction to the Literature," Emory Law Journal, vol. 39 (1990), pp. 855-74.

"Personhood: Current Legal Views," Second Opinion, vol. 14 (1990), pp. 40-53.

"Constitutional Challenges to Textbooks," Educational Policy, vol. 3 (1989), pp. 137-51; rpt. in ed. P. Altbach, et. al, Textbooks in American Society: Politics, Policy, and Petagogy, Albany: Suny Press, 1991, pp. 71-90.

"Education Leadership," Educational Considerations, vol. 16 (1989), pp. 11-14.

"Church and State on the Frontier: The History of the Establishment Clauses in the Washington State Constitution" (with R. Utter), Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, vol. 15 (1988), pp. 451-78.

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"Before the Crusade: Evolution in American Secondary Education Before 1920," Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 20 (1987), pp. 89-114.

"Textbooks, Judges, and Science," Cumberland Law Rev., vol. 17 (1986), pp. 116-37.

Book Reviews:

“Madison’s Hand,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 47 (2016), pp. 20-21.

Trying Biology,” Journal of American History, 101 (2014), pp. 297-98.

“Deadlocked Election of 1800,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 42 (2012), pp. 425-26.

“Church, State and Original Intent,” American Historical Rev., 116 (2011), p.1474-75.

“Segregation’s Science,” Isis, 102 (2011), p. 180.

“Putting Theory to the Test,” Wilson Quarterly, vol. 43 (2010), pp. 85-88.

“Darwin’s Sacred Cause,” BookForum, Feb./Mar. 2009, p. 36.

“Breeding Contempt,” Isis, 99 (2008), pp. 601-02.

“The Trial in American Life,” American Historical Rev., vol. 114 (2007) pp. 1155-56.

“A Sense of the Mysterious,” Boston Globe, Feb. 27, 2005, p. D7.

“The Scopes Trial,” Isis, 94 (2003), pp. 744-45.

“A Merciful End,” American Historical Review, (2003), pp, 1489-90.

“Species of Origins,” Books and Culture, Nov/Dec 2003, p. 26.

“Henry Fairfield Osborn,” American Historical Review, (2003), pp. 529-30.

“Charles Darwin’s Zoology Notes,” Isis, 92 (2001), pp. 622-23.

“Alfred Russel Wallace,” Washington Post Book World, Dec. 23, 2001, p. 5.

“Evolutionary Road,” Washington Post Book World, Mar. 11, 2001, p. T10.

“Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science,” Isis, 90 (1999).

“Darwin Comes to America,” Journal of the History of Biology, 32 (1999), 415-17.

“The Social Meaning of Modern Biology,” Isis, 88 (1997), pp. 731-32.

“Controlling Human Heredity,” Journal of American History, (1997), pp. 1420.

“The Black Stork,” Journal of American History, (1997), pp. 698-99.

“Creationism in Twentieth-Century America,” Brit. J. Hist. of Sci., 29 (1996), 250-52.

“Inventing the Feeble Mind,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 70 (1996), 733-34.

“Nathanial Southgate Shaler,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, pp. 145-47.

“Silent Travelers,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26 (1996), pp. 724-25.

“Simon Baruch,” Mississippi Quarterly, (1995), pp. 374-75.

“Doctors and the Law,” Isis, 85 (1994), pp. 167-68.

“Describing Early America,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, (1993), 253-55.

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“Science, American Style,” Isis, 84 (1993), p. 157.

“The Creationists,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, (1993) pp. 537-38.

“In Search of Human Nature,” Isis, 83 (1992), 436-47.

“Murders and Madness,” British Journal History of Science, 23 (1990), pp. 351-52.

“The Surgical Solution,” Journal of American History, 79 (1990), pp. 300-1.

“Public Prayer and the Constitution,” Journal of Law & Religion, 8 (1988), 5701-4.

“The Wisdom of Science,” Isis, 78 (1987), pp. 662-63.

“Science and Law,” Isis, 75 (1984), pp. 582-83.

Other Publications:

“Lecturing on the History of Science in Unexpected Places,”HSS Newsletter 1/2016, 9-13

“A Middle Way in King v. Burwell,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 16, 2015, p. 20.

“Prejudiced Results: Darwin and Race,” BookForum, Feb./Mar. 2009, p. 36.

“The Founding Mudslingers,” Washington Post, July 4, 2008, p. A-17.

“The Magic of Isolation,” Galapagos News, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 6-7.

“The Politics of History,” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 6, 2008, p. A-18.

“Time for Another Jubilee,” USA Today, Jan. 14, 2008, p. A-16.

“Declarations of Faith,” Time, Nov. 12, 2007, p. 121.

“Infidels at the Gate: The 1800 Election,” Science and Spirit, July 2007, pp. 45-47.

“The O.J. Trial of its Time,” National Post (Toronto), Oct. 26, 2005, p. 19-20.

“The Courtship of Charles Darwin,” Science and Spirit, Sept. 2005, pp. 30-37.

“A Natural Selection: Intelligent Design,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 26, 2005, B13.

“Evolutionary Dissent,” Science and Spirit, Mar. 2005, pp. 48-52.

“Straddling Two Worlds,” Boston Globe, Feb. 27, 2005, p. D7.

“If It’s Spiritual, It’s Not Science,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 24, 2004, op-ed page.

“Poles Apart,” Science and Spirit, July 2004, pp. 26-35.

“The Art of Debating Darwin,” Christianity Today, Sept. 2004, pp. 89-92.

“Tailored Genes,” Legal Affairs, Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp. 56-58.

“Don’t Know Much Biology,” Books and Culture, Nov.-Dec. 2003, p.26.

“History May Soon Forget,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, Sept. 8, 2002, pp. D1-D3.

“Almost Everything Seems the Same,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 4/14/02, p. F7

“At Anchor in the Galapagos,” The Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 2002, pp. 108-10

“Evolutionary Road,” Washington Post Book World, Dec. 23, 2001, p. 5.

“Window on Nature’s Workings,” Times Higher Education Supp., 6/29/01, p. 22.

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“Science and Sentiment in Darwin’s Eden,” Atlanta Journal Const, 1/28/01, E1,E6.

“Birthplace of Evolution,” Guardian, Jan. 23, 2001.

“The Man Who Found the Missing Link,” Washington Post Book World, March 2001.

“Monkey Business,” Oxford American, Nov.-Dec. 2000, pp. 35-37.

“Debating Evolution,” Christian Century, Nov. 11, 1999, pp. 1026-8.

“Inherit an Ill Wind,” The Nation, Oct. 4, 1999, pp. 25-29.

“God vs. Science,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 7, 1999, p. F-1.

A Different Death (with Darril Amundsen). Chicago: Intervarsity Press, 1998.

“In God, Not Science, We Trust,” Times Higher Education Supp., 12/11/98, p. 5.

“Of Course It’s Partisan,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 11, 1998, p. A-24.

“1-900-GENOMES: Coming Genetic Determinism,” Regeneration, Fall 1996, 30-31.

"Assisted Suicide Is a Slippery Slope," Insight, vol. 10 (1994), pp. 18-20.

Euthanasia: Spiritual, Medical, and Legal Issues in Terminal Health Care (with Beth Spring). Portland: Multnomah Press, 1988.

"Life-defying Acts," Christianity Today, March 6, 1987, pp. 17-22.

Additional articles in Seattle Times, Creative Loafing, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

PRESENTATION OF PUBLIC LECTURES AND ACADEMIC PAPERS:

Listing of presentations since January 1, 2012:

“Origins of Presidential Politics,” Sebelius Lecture, Fort Hays State Univ., KS, 11/2/16

“Magnificent Catastrophe,” Eagleton Lecture, Rutgers University, NJ, 10/17/16

“Elections of 1798 and 1800,” Renaissance Weekend, Napa Valley, CA, 10/7-9/16

“Federalist Concepts of Executive Authority,” Virginia CLE, Mount Vernon, 9/29-30/16

“George Washington on Leadership,” State Legislative Leadership Summit, 9/23/16

“George Washington, Nationalist,” Ford Book Lecture, Mount Vernon, 9/22/16

“Pulitzer and the Scopes Trial,” Coastal Georgia Historical Society, GA 9/1/16

“Arctic and Alaskan History,” Crystal Lecture Series, 8/8-12/16

“The Presidency and the Constitution,” National Constitution Center, PA 7/27/16

“Washington and the Constitution,” Monteagle Conference Center, TN 7/26/16

“The Catastrophic Election of 1800,” Truman Library, Independence, MO. 7/19/16

“America’s First Presidential Election,” Truman Library, Independence, MO. 7/18/16

“Terrorism and American Politics: A History,” AMIA Lecture, Buenos Aires, 5/24/16

“Washington and the Constitution,” Supreme Court Historical Society Lecture, 4/28/16

“Darwin and the Victorian Soul,” Templeton Lecture, Azusa Pacific Univ., 4/21/16

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“Origins of the Vice Presidency,” Pepperdine Law Review Symposium, Malibu, CA 4/1/16

“The Legend of Scopes,” Oxford Conference on the Book, Oxford, MS, 3/4/16

“Washington and Leadership,” Committee of 25, Palm Springs, CA 2/18/16

“Elections of 1800 and 2016,” Renaissance Weekend, Santa Monica, CA, 2/13/16

“Early Antarctic Science,” US - NSF Palmer Research Station, Antarctica, 1/20/16

“Antarctic Exploration and Patagonia,” Crystal Lecture Series, 1/18/16-1/23/16

“The Scopes Trial and Inherit the Wind,” Minnesota Historical Society, 12/12/15

James Otis Lecture, Minn. ABOTA Foundation, 12/11/2015

“George Washington and American Politics,” Shanghai Book Festival, 11/1/15

“Eugenics in US and Israel,” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 10/29/15

“Science, Religion, and Eugenics,” Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, 10/28/15

“Creationism in US and the World,” Tel Aviv University, Israel, 10/ 27/15

Science and Religion Plenary Lecture, World Parliament of Religion, 10/16/15

Madison Council Interview on George Washington, Library of Congress, 10/10/15

Mark O. Hatfield Lecture, Russell Senate Office Building, 10/8/15

“Religion in the Election of 1800,” Western Conf. on Faith and History, 9/26/15

“Washington’s Second Revolution,” Yorktown Historical Association, 9/24/15

“Constitution-Making as an Exercise in the Rule of Law,” Virginia CLE, 9/17/15

“Writing about Washington,” National Book Festival, Washington, D.C., 9/5/15

“Arctic Exploration and Convoys,” Crystal Lecture Series, 7/8/15-7/25/15

“Writing American History,” Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD, 5/20/2015

“The Common Law of Geoengineering,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, 5/8/15

William French Smith Lecture, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA, 4/30/15

“Washington and the Constitution,” New York Historical Society, 4/28/15

“Annual Charter Lecture,” University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 4/24/15

“Washington’s Nationalizing Legacy,” Hampton-Sydney University, VA, 4/21/15

“Transformational Leadership,” Burns Leadership Symposium, Mount Vernon, 4/10/15

“Washington’s Second Revolution,” Mount Vernon Club, Baltimore, MD, 4/8/15

“Geoengineering, Early Man, and the Indian Ocean,” Crystal Lectures, 3/14/15-3/30/15

“America’s Antievolution Crusade,” University of Queensland, Australia, 3/12/15

“Washington’s Constitution,” Licta Lecture, Pepperdine School of Public Policy, 2/25/15

“Return of George Washington,” Book Lecture, Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, 2/20/15

“President’s Day Lecture,” Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, 2/16/15

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“Seeking George Washington,” Savannah Book Festival, 2/14/15

Antarctic Science lecture series, National Geog. Society, Antarctic Peninsula, 1/16-31/15

“Wallace’s Dilemma,” Alfred Russel Wallace Symposium, UCLA, 11/14/14

“Return of George Washington,” Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C., 11/14/14

“Washington and Ratification,” Gaines Lecture Series, Mount Vernon, 11/13/14

“Debt and Democracy,” Museum of American Finance, New York, 11/12/14

“Return of George Washington,” Pratt Library, Baltimore, 11/12/14

“Washington’s Resignation,” U.S. Central Command, Tampa, FL, 10/31/14

“Return of George Washington,” Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA, 10/30/14

“Washington’s Second Revolution,” Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 10/23/14

“Election of 1800,” Renaissance Weekend, Tarrytown, NY, 10/20/14

“The Newburgh Conspiracy,” Renaissance Weekend, Tarrytown, NY, 10/18/14

“Teaching Washington,” National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA, 10/17/14

“Washington’s Second Revolution,” National Constitution Center, 10/13/14

“Washington in Pennsylvania,” Lehigh Valley Museum, Allentown, PA, 10/12/14

“Revolutionary Politics,” Morristown National Historical Park, NJ, 10/13/14

“Washington in Philadelphia,” Gaines Lecture Series, Mount Vernon, 10/9/14

“Washington and Slavery,” MLK Memorial Library, Washington, DC, 10/8/14

Constitution Day Lecture, Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 9/19/14

“Washington Looks West,” Gaines Lecture Series, Mount Vernon, 9/11/14

“The Galapagos as a Space for Science,” Univ. of Saskatchewan, 6/6/14

“The Scopes Trial,” Scopes Festival Keynote Address, 7/19/14

Arctic and Antarctic Science, Scientific American Lecture Series, 5/23-29/14

“Washington’s Inauguration,” Library Lecture, Mount Vernon, 4/30/14

“Darrow,” Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, 4/12/14

“Who Owns the Antarctic,” Nat. Geog. Society Series, Antarctic Peninsula, 2/9-13/14

“Patagonia, the Falklands, and Antarctic Science,” Crystal Lectures, 12/27/13-1/4/14

“Washington and the New Nation,” Library Lecture, Mount Vernon, 11/23/13

“Ethical Quandaries and Evolving Religions,” AAR Annual Meeting, 11/22/13

“Creating a Nation,” Old Capital Museum, Jackson, MS, 11/16/13

“The NAS’s Role in Science Education,” National Academy of Sciences, 10/18/13

“Head Transplants and Humanity,” University of Athens, Greece, 9/5/13

“Introducing Evolution into American Public Schools,” Cambridge University, 6/17/13

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“Washington’s Retirement,” Mount Vernon Lecture Series, LA, 2/28/13

“Race to the Pole” and “Shackleton’s Voyages,” Nat. Geog. Society Series, 2/13-15/13

“Tennessee and the Scopes Trial,” Dean’s Lecture, Belmont University, 11/2/12

“Science in the Race to the Pole,” Livermore Lectures, Livermore, CA, 10/25/12

“Becoming America: Early Documents,” Pepperdine Library Presentation, 10/19/12

“Scott, Amundsen and Science,” Hist. of Science & Medicine, Yale Univ., 9/24/12

“Reception of Darwinism,” CIS, Queen’s College, Cambridge, UK, 7/47/12

“Darwinism, Eugenics and Religion,” Faraday Inst., Cambridge University, 7/13/12

“American Constitutionalism and European Union,” Univ. of Athens, Greece, 7/12/12

“Redesigning Ourselves,” University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 7/11/12

“Race for the Pole,” Center Club, Costa Mesa, CA, 5/22/12

“Quest for Magnetic South Pole,” Harris Lecture, Cal Tech, Pasadena, CA, 5/21/12

“Anti-Evolution in the Courts,” Edwards Symposium, Stanford Law School, 5/11/12

“Scopes Trial,” Science & Rel. Lecture, Westminster Church, Pittsburgh, PA, 5/6/12

“Heroic Age of Antarctic Science,” Green Library Lecture, Stanford Univ., 4/25/12

“Inherit the Wind,” Stanford Law School Film Festival Speaker, 4/17/12

“Race for the South Pole,” Seaver Dean’s Lecture, Pepperdine University, 4/27/12

“Empire of Ice,” Shanghai Literary Festival Main Speaker, Shanghai, 3/18/12

“Robert Falcon Scott,” Royal Geographical Society, Hong Kong, 3/16/12

“Quest for Magnetic South Pole,” Royal Geographical Society, Hong Kong, 3/15/12

“Race to the South Pole,” Royal Geographical Society, Hong Kong, 3/14/12

“Scott, Amundsen and Science,” SETI Lecture Series, Mountain View, CA, 1/18/12

“Race to the South Pole,” Commonwealth Club Lecture, San Francisco, CA, 1/17/12

“Empire of Ice,” Jonathan Club Breakfast Club Lecture, Los Angeles, CA, 1/3/12

Summary of presentations prior to 2012:

Presentation of named or funded scholarly lectures at Berry College, Bryan College, California Institute Tech, California State Univ.-Chico, Cambridge Univ., Case-Western Reserve Univ., Chapman School of Law (Commencement Address), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Columbia Univ., Dalton State College, Drexel Univ., Duke University, Duquesne Univ., Eastern Nazarene College, Emory Univ., Florida State Univ., Fordham Univ., Franklin & Marshall Univ., Furman Univ., Gainesville College, Georgia Tech., Harvard Univ., Hillsdale College, Iowa State Univ., Kansas State University, Kennesaw State Univ., King’s Univ., Maryville College, Messiah College, New York Univ., North Georgia College, Notre Dame Univ., Ohio State Univ., Oregon State Univ., Oxford University, Penn State Univ., Princeton Univ., Samford Univ., Stanford Univ.,Southwest Georgia State College, State Univ. of New York (various campuses), Royal Geographic Society of London, Royal Society, Univ. of Alabama, Univ. of Arizona, Univ. of Athens

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(Greece), Univ. of British Columbia, Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Chile, Univ. of Cincinnati, Univ. of Kentucky, Univ. of Georgia (Commencement), Univ. of Leiden, Univ. of Melbourne, Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Mississippi, Univ. of Nebraska, Univ. of Oklahoma, Univ. of the Ozarks, Univ. of Prince Edward Island, Univ. of San Diego, Univ. of South Carolina, Univ. of Tasmania, Univ. of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Univ. of Tennessee, Univ. of Utah, Univ. of Washington, Univ. of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt Univ., Virginia Tech, Wake Forest Univ., Washburn Univ., Western Washington State Univ., Western Kentucky Univ., Williams College, Wingate Univ., and Yale University.

Over 60 invited papers at conferences organized by professional institutions, such as Alberta Natural History Museum, American Association for the Advancement of Science (plenary address), American Association for the History of Medicine, Atlanta History Center (3 times), Australian National Maritime Museum, Australian Society for the History of Medicine, British Society for History of Science, California Academy of Sciences, Clarence Darrow Society, Conference on Southern Literature, Harrisburg Museum of Science, History of Science Society, Hong Kong Literary Festival, Los Angeles County Museum, Mount Vernon, Monticello, National Academy of Sciences, National Geographical Society, Organization of American Historians, Renaissance Weekends, Royal Geographical Society (London and Hong Kong), Royal Automobile Club (London), Salisbury House (Iowa), Shanghai Literary Festival, Southern Historical Association, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

Frequent speaker at professional meetings for judges, attorneys, physicians and scientists in the United States. International lectures in Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Mali, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, and Spain. Expedition and cruise lecturer in Antarctica and South America for Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographical Society, Scientific American Magazine, and Crystal Cruises.

Course on the history of the theory of evolution is available on video, tape and CD from The Teaching Company, Chantilly, VA 20151-1232 (1-800-832-2412).

Other presentations:

Over 350 invited television and radio interviews including one or more on the Face the Nation (CBS), Today Show (NBC), All Things Considered (NPR), Fresh Air (NPR), American Experience (PBS), News Hour (PBS), Nova (PBS), Booknotes (C-Span), BBC- Radio, About Books (C-Span), Court-TV, Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC), The Foxhole (Fox News), Diane Rehm Show (NPR), Odyssey Network, Showtime Network, Talk of the Nation-Science Friday (NPR), History Channel, Voice of America, Marketplace (NPR).

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS:

2017, Friends of Darwin Award, National Association for Science Education

2017, Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Pepperdine Law School

2014-15, Gaines Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of American History, Mount Vernon

2013-14, Fellow, Fred Smith Library for Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon

2012, Book of the Year, History, Georgia Writers Association

2012, Finalist, Hessell-Tillman Prize in History for Empire of Ice.

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2011-, Corresponding Member, International Academy of the History of Science

2011, National Outdoor Book Award for Empire of Ice, Honorable Mention

2009, Summer for the Gods named #2 books on a legal case, Wall Street Journal

2009, Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History

2008, Magnificent Catastrophe Outstanding Academic Titles by ALA/Choice Magazine

2008, Delphic Ideal Wisdom Award, University of Athens, Greece

2008, A Magnificent Catastrophe named #2 book on elections, Wall Street Journal

2007-12, Fulbright Senior Specialist, U.S. Dept. of State Fulbright Program.

2007, Summer for the Gods named #2 book on a political trial, Wall Street Journal

2004 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Ohio State University

2003-04, Participant, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, NSF

2003 American Spirit Award, Conference on Southern Literature

2002-present, Founding Member, International Society for Science and Religion

2001 Christ-Janer Award for Outstanding Research in the Humanities, Univ. of GA

2000-01 John Adams Chair, Fulbright Program, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

2000 George Sarton Lecture, American Association for Advancement of Science.

1999 National Civil Liberties Award, American Civil Liberties Union.

1998 Pulitzer Prize for History.

1998 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist.

1998 Washington State Governor’s Writers Award.

1998 Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge Certificate of Recognition.

1997 Templeton Prize for Outstanding Article in Science and Religion.

Resident Scholar, Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center, Italy, 1996.

Richard B. Russell Award for Undergraduate Teaching, University of Georgia, 1992.

Parks-Heggoy Award for Excellence in Teaching History, University of Georgia, 1989.

University Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1983-84.

Visiting Scholar, University of Washington, 1986, 1988, and 1992.

Listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Law, and Who’s Who in the South.

Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Williams College, 1974.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Director, Diane & Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies, Pepperdine, 2011-present

Adjunct Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, 2008-present.

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Executive Committee, International Society for Science and Religion, 2013-present.

Member, History of Science Advisory Board, Huntington Library, 2014-present

Head, History Department, University of Georgia, 2000-04.

Member, History of Science Society, 1984-present.

Member, Washington State Bar Association, 1979-present.

Admitted to practice law before the U. S. Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court (W.D. Wash), and the U.S. Tax Court.

Editorial Board, Georgia Review, 1998-2006.

Senior Fellow, Georgia Institute for Higher Education, 2008-13.

Adjunct Appointment, Genetics Department, University of Georgia, 2007-present.

Chair, Watson-Davis Prize Committee, History of Science Society, 1993-94, 2010-11 Member, Watson-Davis Prize Committee, History of Science Society, 1991-93, 2007-10

Reviewer, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Program, 2010.

Advisory Board, Georgia Repertory Theater, 2000-02.

Senior Fellow, University of Georgia Foundation Fellows, 1998-03.

Member, Program Committee, American Historical Ass’n Annual Meeting, 2002.

Editorial Board, University of Georgia Press, 2000-03.

Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, 1997-2005

Panelist, National Institutes of Health, Study Section for Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of the U.S. Human Genome Project, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003 (panel chair), 2004, 2006-09 (study section member).

Strauss Distinguished Visiting Professor, Pepperdine University School of Law, 2005

Trustee, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 1992-99.

Visiting Professor, University of San Diego School of Law, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004.

Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute, 1992-98.

Counsel, Ellis & Li, Seattle, WA 1985-97.

1996-1997 Templeton Foundation Lecturer.

Visiting Prof., Institut de Driot Comparé, Univ. Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, 1996.

Panelist, Dissemination and Effectiveness Panels, U.S. Dep’t of Education, 1986-1998.

Univ. of Georgia Council Member, 1992-98, 2002-06; Executive Committee, 1993-95 Chair, Student Affairs Committee, University of Georgia, 1993-1996.

Member, Development Committee, History of Science Society, 2000-present.

Chair, Coordinating Committee, Forum for the History of Science in America, 1993-95 Chair, Book Prize Committee, Forum for History of Science in America, 1992

Science Education Project Reviewer, U.S. Department of Education, 1989.

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Reviewer, U.S. Dep’t of Education School Recognition Program, 1987-89.