Email: efkeller@mit.edu
Extension: x3-8722
Office: E51-171
Department: Science, Technology, and Society
Professor Keller received her B.A. from Brandeis University (Physics, 1957) and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (Physics, 1963). She came to MIT from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies (1988-1992). Professor Keller has taught at Northeastern University, S.U.N.Y. at Purchase, and New York University. She serves on the editorial boards of various journals including the Journal of the History of Biology and Biology and Philosophy.
Her research focuses on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science. Her book The Century of the Gene was published in October 2000, and her most recent manuscript, Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines, appeared in April, 2002.
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