Dr. Eileen Crist Associate Professor of Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech's Blacksburg Campus

231 Lane Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231-5195

Eileen Crist

 received her Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University in 1994. She currently teaches in the areas of life sciences, technology, and society, as well as environmental science and ethics. Her research is on behavioral science and environmental issues, especially on biodiversity conservation. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind (Temple University Press, 2000) and co-editor of Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century (MIT Press, 2004).






Recent Papers

        • "Can an insect speak? The case of the honeybee dance language," Social Studies of Science, 34(1):7-43.
        • "Concerned with trifles? A geophysiological reading of Charles Darwin's last book," in Scientists on Gaia: The New Century, MIT Press, in press, 2004.
        • "The inner life of earthworms: Darwin's argument and its implications," in The Cognitive Animal, edited by Marc Bekoff, Colin Allen, and Gordon Burghardt, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 3-8, 2002.
 		 
Department of Science and Technology in Society
122 Lane Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231-7615       Fax: (540) 231-7013       E-mail: Graduate Secretary