Prof David Livingstone
Professor of Geography & Intellectual History
Queen's University Belfast
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Biography
David N. Livingstone OBE MRIA FBA is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at the Queen's University of Belfast. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Calvin College in Michigan and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and as a Visiting Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia. The British Association for the Advancement of Science appointed him as its Charles Lyell Lecturer for 1994-95. He has delivered the Hettner Lectures (University of Heidelberg), the Murrin Lectures (University of British Columbia), the Appleton Lecture (University of Hull), the von Humboldt Lecture (UCLA), the Manley Lecture (Royal Holloway) and has accepted an invitation to deliver the Gifford Lectures in 2014. In 1995 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 1998 a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has also been elected a Member of the Academia Europaea, an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences, and a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of the History of Science. He has received the Admiral Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society (1997), the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (1998), the Templeton Foundation Lecture Award for 1998-99, the Gold Medal of the Royal Irish Academy (2008), and the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (2011). He held a British Academy Research Readership for 1999-2001 and is currently the holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2011-2014).
He was awarded an OBE in 2002 for services to Geography and History, and an Honorary D.Litt by the University of Aberdeen in 2013. He is the author/editor of a dozen books and over 100 articles. His books include Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (1987), Darwin's Forgotten Defenders (1987), The Preadamite Theory (1992), The Geographical Tradition (1992), Putting Science in Its Place (2003) and Adam's Ancestors (2008).
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Website
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfDavidLivingstone/ExtendedInformation/
Publications
Geography and Revolution (edited volume)
The University of Chicago Press 2005
Co-authors: Eds: Livingstone, David N. & Charles W. J. Withers,
www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/158251.ctl
Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge,
The University of Chicago Press 2003
www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15822.ctl
Geography and Enlightenment (edited volume)
The University of Chicago Press 1989
Co-authors: Eds: Livingstone, David N. & Charles W. J. Withers,
www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13845.ctl
The Geographical Tradition,
Blackwells
Co-authors: David Livingstone (Queen's University, Belfast) & David Livingstone (University of Warwick),
https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/more_reviews.asp?ref=9780631185864&site=1
Science, Space and Hermeneutics,
Hettner-Lectures Band 5
www.dav-buchhandlung.de/?suchergebnis=1&s_volltext=livingstone&B1=Suche+starten
Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought,
www.amazon.com/Darwins-Forgotten-Defenders-Evangelical-Evolutionary/dp/1573830933
Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
Johns Hopkins University Press 2008
Geographies of Nineteenth Century Science
University of Chicago Press 2011
Co-authors: eds: Livingstone, David N. & Charles W.J. Withers
Geographies of Nineteenth Century Science
University of Chicago Press 2011
Co-authors: eds: Livingstone, David N. & Charles W.J. Withers
