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<p>Social history of natural theology, and scientific naturalism since 1800. His research
concentrates on the life and legacies of Charles Darwin, but he is also interested
in"science and religion" issues, evolutionary concepts of nature and society,
the popularization of science, and twentieth-century fundamentalisms.</p><h2>Selected
Publications:</h2><h3>In press</h3><p>‘Getting the Kids Involved– Darwin’s
Paternal Example’, in Carol Boulter, Michael J. Reiss, and Dawn Sanders, eds,<em>Darwin-Inspired
Learning</em>. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.</p><p>'Foreword', in Simon Keynes,<em>Charles
Darwin, Robert FitzRoy and the Voyage of HMS</em>Beagle. London: Henry Sotheran.</p><p>‘Darwin,
Charles Robert (1809-1882)’, in Hans-Josef Klauck et al. (eds),<em>Encyclopedia
of the Bible and Its Reception</em>, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, vol. 5.</p><p>‘O
Problema de Darwin com a Escravidão’ [‘Darwin and the Problem of
Slavery’ (Portuguese by Thiago de Sá)], in Charbel Niño El-Hani,
Jerzy Brzozowski and Nei Freitas Nunes-Neto (eds)<em>Darwin na Bahia: Biologia Evolutiva
de Múltiplas Perspectivas</em>(Salvador, Bahia: Editora da Universidade Federal
da Bahia (EDUFBA).</p><h3>Published</h3><p>‘Eloge: John Colton Greene, 1917-2008’,<em>Isis</em>,
103 (2012), 144-48.</p><p>‘Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)’ and‘From
Biblical Ethnology to Scientific Anthropology’, in Patrick Mason (ed.)<em>Encyclopedia
of Race and Racism</em>, 2d edn., 4 vols, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA /
Cengage Learning, vol. 2, pp. 10-12.</p><p>‘达尔文与基督教世界的沟通：他的跨洋策略’ [‘Darwin
Communicates with the Christian World: His Transatlantic Strategy’, (Mandarin
translation by Jin Xiaoxing (金晓星)], 《科学文化评论》 [<em>Science and Culture Review</em>(Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing)], vol. 8, pp. 54-68.</p><p>‘Darwin and the“Sin”
of Slavery’,<em>Ethical Record</em>(London), April 2011, pp. 3-15.</p><p>‘Darwin
Communicates with the Christian World: His Transatlantic Strategy’,<em>Filosofia
e História da Biologia</em>(São Paulo), 5 (2010), 309-26.</p><p>‘Darwin’s
Progress and the Problem of Slavery’,<em>Progress in Human Geography</em>, 34
(2010), 555-82.</p><p>‘Eloge: Dr. Ralph Colp, 1924-2008’,<em>Isis</em>,
101 (2010), 599-602.</p><p>(with Diane B. Paul)‘The Darwinian Context: Evolution
and Inheritance’, in Alison Bashford and Phillipa Levine (eds)<em>The Handbook
of the History of Eugenics</em>, Oxford History Handbooks (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2010), pp. 27-42.</p><p>‘Creationism’;‘Darwin, Charles Robert’;
and‘Evolution and Christianity’, in Daniel Patte (ed.)<em>The Cambridge
Dictionary of Christianity</em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp.
284-85, 305, 401.</p><p>(with Adrian Desmond)<em>Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race,
Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins</em>(London: Allen Lane, and Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, 2009); Dutch, Amsterdam, Nieuw Amsterdam, 2009; Japanese, Tokyo,
NHK Shuppan, 2009; Portuguese, Rio de Janeiro, Distribuidora Record, 2009; Italian,
Milan, Raffaello Cortina, 2013; U.K. pbk, London, Penguin, 2010; U.S. pbk, Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 2010.</p><p>‘Myth 16, That Evolution Destroyed
Charles Darwin’s Faith in Christianity—Until He Reconverted on His Deathbed’,
in Ronald L. Numbers (ed.),<em>Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science
and Religion</em>(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 142-51.</p><p>‘Religion
and Science’, in David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (eds)<em><em>The Cambridge
History of Science</em></em>, vol. 6,<em><em>Modern Biological and Earth Sciences</em></em>,
ed. Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009),
pp. 541-62.</p><p>(among 12 contributors) Darwin: programmes 1-4, in Melvyn Bragg
(ed.)<em>In Our Time: A Companion to the Radio 4 Series</em>(London: Hodder& Stoughton,
2009), pp. 159-252.</p><p>‘Wallace in Wonderland’, in Charles Smith and
George Beccaloni (eds)<em><em>Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy
of Alfred Russel Wallace</em></em>(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp 353-67;
and in<em><em>Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology</em></em>, 11 (2006),
139-54.</p><p>‘My Friendship with Ralph Colp’,<em>Clio’s Psyche</em>,
15 (2008), 162-63.</p><p>(with Adrian Desmond and Janet Browne)<em>Charles Darwin,</em>Very
Interesting People, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); from H. C. G. Matthew
and Brian Harrison (eds)<em>The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</em>(Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004), vol.15, pp. 177-202. German pbk, Heidelberg, Spektrum,
2008.</p><p>‘R. A. Fisher: A Faith Fit for Eugenics’,<em>Studies in History
and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences</em>, 38 (2007):110-35; and in
Nicolaas A. Rupke (ed.)<em>Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Biology and Religion</em>(Frankfurt
am Main: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 103-38.</p><p>‘Darwin, Charles Robert’,
in Tom Flynn (ed.)<em>The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief</em>(Amherst, NY: Prometheus,
2007), pp. 226-30.</p><p>‘Revolution of the Space-Invaders: Darwin and Wallace
on the Geography of Life’, in David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers
(eds)<em>Geography and Revolution</em>(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005),
pp. 106-32.</p><p>‘Good Breeding: Darwin Doubted His Own Family’s“Fitness”’,<em>Natural
History</em>(New York), November 2005, pp. 45-46.</p><p>(with Adrian Desmond)‘Introduction’,
in Charles Darwin,<em>The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex</em>, Penguin
Classics (London: Penguin Books, 2004), pp. xi-lxvi.</p><p>‘The Fortunes of
Eugenics’, in Deborah Brunton (ed.)<em>Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease
and Society in Europe, 1800-1939</em>(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004),
pp. 266-97.</p><p>‘Charles Darwin’, in Gary B. Ferngren (ed.)<em>Science
and Religion. A Historical Introduction</em>(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2002), pp. 208-18; from Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, Darryl W. Amundsen,
and Anne-Marie E. Nakhla (eds)<em>The History of Science and Religion in the Western
Tradition: An Encyclopedia</em>(New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 100-105.</p><p>‘Darwinism
Gone to Seed’ [review of Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse (eds)<em>Disseminating
Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender</em>],<em>Books and Culture</em>,
March-April 2001, pp. 36-38.</p><p><span>‘Telling Tales: Evangelicals and the
Darwin Legend’, in David N. Livingstone, Darryl G. Hart, and Mark A. Noll (eds)<em>Evangelicals
and Science in Historical Perspective</em>(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999),
pp. 220-33.</span> </p><p><span>(with Adrian Desmond)‘Transgressing Boundaries’,<em>Journal
of Victorian Culture</em>, 3 (1998), 147-68.</span> </p><p><span>‘Wallace's
Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited’, in Bernard Lightman (ed.)<em>Victorian
Science in Context</em>(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 290-331;
and in‘A World Away: Wallace's Malthusian Moment’, in Brian P. Dolan
(ed.),<em>Science Unbound: Geography, Space and Discipline</em>, Idéhistoriska
skrifter 24 (Umeå: Umeå Universitets tryckeri, 1998), pp. 127-51.</span> </p><p><span>‘Green
Gold: The Riches of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller’, in Rod W. Home (ed.)<em>The
Scientific Savant in Nineteenth Century Australia</em>, special issue of<em>Historical
Records of Australian Science</em>, 11 (1997), 371-88.</span> </p><p><span>‘Darwin's
Traducer’ [review of<em>’Almost a Man of Genius': Clémence
Royer, Feminism, and Nineteenth-Century Science</em>by Joy Harvey],<em>Times Literary
Supplement</em>, 24 October 1997, p. 40; also in‘Biological Politics and the
Fight for Female Genius’,<em>Australian Financial Review</em>, 30 January 1998.</span> </p><p><span>‘All
Drama but No Crisis’ [review of<em>Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology
and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940</em>by Peter J. Bowler],<em>Times
Higher Education Supplement</em>, 23 May 1997, p. 21.</span></p><p>See also<a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/jrm3.html"><u>Open
Research Online</u></a>for further details of James Moore’s research publications.</p> |