Edward J. Larson

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Edward J. Larson at the National Book Festival (2015)

Edward John Larson (born September 21, 1953 in Mansfield , Ohio ) is an American lawyer and historian .

Life

Larson studied at Williams College , where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 . From 1974 to 1976 he served as an analyst in the Wisconsin Senate . In addition, he continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin and received a Master of Arts there in 1976 . He continued his studies at Harvard University and received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1979 . That same year he was inducted into the Washington State Bar Association . From 1979 to 1982 he was an attorney with the Davis, Wright & Tremaine law firm in Seattle , Washington . At the same time he worked from 1981 to 1982 as a legal advisor ( Counsel ) in the House of Representatives from Washington . He was then Associate Counsel for the Committee on Education and Labor of Congress from 1983 to 1986 . In 1984 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. in history of science . From 1986 to 1987, Larson legal advisor ( Counsel ) in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the Education Ministry .

In 1987 he was appointed Richard B. Russell Professor of History and Talmadge Chair in Law at the University of Georgia , which he held until 2008. Larson taught at the University of Georgia from 1987 to 1991 as an assistant professor and from 1991 to 1996 as an associate professor. From 2000 to 2004 he was chairman of the university's history department . He has been Professor of History at Pepperdine University since 2006 and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law . He has also been Director of the University's Diane & Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies since 2011 . He has also been Adjunct Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia since 2008 .

In 1996, Larson was Visiting Professor at the Institut de Driot Comparé at the Jean Moulin University in Lyon . In 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2004 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Law at the University of San Diego . In 2005 he was Strauss Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Law at Pepperdine University. In 2011 and again in 2016 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne . In 2012 he was visiting professor at Stanford University .

He served on the editorial board of the Georgia Review from 1998 to 2006 and on the editorial board of the University of Georgia Press from 2000 to 2003 .

His book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for History . 2004 awarded him Ohio State University , the honorary doctorate ( Doctor of Humane Letters ).

He has been a member of the History of Science Society since 1984 . In 2002 he was one of the founding members of the International Society for Science and Religion and has been a member since then. He has been a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science since 2011 .

Publications (selection)

  • Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution. (1985, New York: Oxford University Press)
  • Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. (1995, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. (1997, New York: Basic Book)
  • with Edward Caudill: The Scopes Trial: A Photographic History (2000, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press)
  • with Gary Ferngren, Darril Amundsen (Eds.) The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia (2000, New York: Garland Publishing)
  • Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands. (2001, New York: Basic Books; London: Penguin)
  • Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory. (2004, New York: Random House)
  • with James Charles Smith, John Copeland Nagle, John A. Kidwell: Property Law: Cases and Materials (2004, New York: Aspen)
  • with Michael Winship: The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison (2005, New York: Random House)
  • The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives. (2007, Athens: University of Georgia Press)
  • A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign. (2007, New York: Free Press)
  • with Jack Marshall: The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow (2007, New York: Random House)
  • An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science. (2011, New Haven: Yale University Press)
  • Creationism in the Classroom: Cases, Statutes, and Commentary. (2012, St. Paul: West)
  • The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789. (2014, New York: Harper Collins)
  • George Washington, nationalist. (2016, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press)
  • with Michael Ruse: Science, Religion and the Human Spirit (2017, New Haven: Yale University Press)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward J. Larson: Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. (1995, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
  2. ^ The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (1992)
  3. ↑ Elizabeth A. Brennan, Elizabeth C. Clarage: Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners (1999, Greenwood Publishing Group)
personal data
SURNAME Larson, Edward J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larson, Edward John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Mansfield , Ohio