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David Sepkoski received his PhD from the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota in 2002.  Before joining the department at UNCW in 2006, he taught in the history department at Oberlin College.  Dr. Sepkoski specializes in the history of evolutionary theory, particularly the interaction of paleontology and biology during the 20th century.  His current project is a manuscript titled Re-reading the Fossil Record: The Rise of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline, which is supported by a National Science Foundation Scholars’ Award.  He is also co-editor (with Michael Ruse) of Paleontology at the High Table, a collection of essays by historians, philosophers, and paleontologists examining the last 40 years of paleontology, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

In addition to his interest in modern biology, Dr. Sepkoski has worked on the history of early modern science and mathematics.  His first book, Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy, will be published by Routledge in 2007.  At UNCW, he teaches courses on the history of science from antiquity to the present.  For more information on his research and teaching, including a full list of publications, see his personal homepage at http://people.uncw.edu/sepkoskid/