PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND SERVICE
AWARDS
- Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Seminar Award, 2010
- McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 2009-2011
- SSHRC Grant (Canada) – “Integrating different biological approaches: a philosophical contribution” (Collaborator/Core Team Member with Ingo Brigandt, University of Alberta), 2009-2011
- Graduate School – Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives: “Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology Graduate Group” (Team Member with M. Borrello, M. Travisano, and C.K. Waters), 2008-2009
- CLA Single Semester Leave, 2008-9
- UMN Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2007
- UMN McKnight Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities, 2007
- National Science Foundation Travel Grant, 2006
- UCSC COR Faculty Research Grant, 2005-6
- Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005
- George Hudock Fellowship, 2003 & 2004
- Harvey Fellowship from the Mustard Seed Foundation, 1999-2002
SERVICE
Metascience – Editorial Board, 2010–
Founding editor of Philosophy & Theory in Biology (online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal) with Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY-Lehman), Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University), and Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University), 2009–
&HPS – Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Steering Committee, 2009–
Journal Referee
- Biology & Philosophy (2010)
- British Journal for Philosophy of Science (2010)
- Erkenntnis (2010)
- Evolution & Development (2010)
- Philosophy of Science (2010 - 2x),
- Psychology Research and Behavioral Management (2010)
- Acta Biotheoretica (2009 - 2x)
- Erkenntnis (2009)
- Philosophy of Science (2009 - 2x)
- BioScience (2009)
- Erkenntnis (2008)
- Biology and Philosophy (2007)
- The Quarterly Review of Biology (2007)
- International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2007)
- Philosophy of Science (2007 - 2x)
- BioScience (2006)
- Heredity (2006)
- Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2006)
- Journal of the History of Biology (2005)
- Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy (2005)
- Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2005 - 2x)
- Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2004)
Peer Review
- Canada Research Chairs Program – College of Reviewers (2010)
- Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research (2010)
- National Science Foundation (2008)
- Oxford University Press (2008 - 2x)
- Western Canadian Philosophical Association (2008)
- Springer (2008)
- National Science Foundation (2006)
- MIT Press (2006)
University of Minnesota
Institutional
- CLA College Day (Fall 2010)
- CLA Undergraduate Continuing Scholarship Reviewer (Spring 2010)
- CLA Course Review Committee (2009–)
- CLA College Day (Fall 2009)
- CLA Undergraduate Continuing Scholarship Reviewer (Spring 2009)
- CLA Faculty Calling Outreach (Spring 2009)
- CLA Freshmen Research Award Faculty Participant (2008-2009)
- CLA Undergraduate Continuing Scholarship Reviewer (Spring 2008)
- CLA ‘Sneak Preview’ for prospective students (2007)
Departmental
- Website Coordinator (2009–)
- Colloquium Committee (2009)
- Standing Search Committee (Fall 2008–)
- Departmental Planning Committee (2008)
- Admission and Aid Committee (2008)
- Woodbridge Scholarship Award Committee (2007)
- Colloquium Committee (2007)
Other
- Co-organizer of the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Seminar Series (2005-6; sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC)
- Pitt/CMU Graduate Conference Referee: 1998, 2002
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Representative for HPS Department, 1999-2001
- Graduate Student Representative for HPS departmental meetings, 1999-2002
- Instructor for Teaching Assistant Orientation and Training - Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education: (1) 2000: “Getting Started in the Classroom” & “Creating an Inclusive Classroom”; (2) 2001: “The 50-Minute Lecture”; (3) 2001: “Getting Started in the Classroom”