Ian Ramsey Centre
for science and religion in the University of Oxford

Marwa Elshakry is Associate Professor in History at Columbia University. She teaches courses on the history of the sciences in cross-cultural and global perspective and on Middle Eastern history and is currently finishing a book for publication in late 2009, Reading Darwin in the Middle East. Publications Abstract

John Evans is an authority on religion and politics in the United States, as well as the sociology of bioethics and science, and the polarisation of public opinion on abortion, homosexuality, and school prayer. He has published several books and articles on the increasing polarization of American social issues, the involvement of religious groups in politics, and the nature of American debates over bioethical issues. His most recent book is Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate. Publications Abstract

Ronald Numbers, University of Wisconsin (Madison) is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine. His books include Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (Oxford University Press, 2007), The Creationists: from Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (Harvard University Press, 2006), and Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998). He edited Isis (1989-1993), the flagship journal of the history of science, and is writing a history of science in America (for BasicBooks), editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science and religion for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and coediting, with David Lindberg, the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science. He is a past president of both the American Society of Church History and the History of Science Society, the current president of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, a former Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an effective member of the International Academy of the History of Science. Publications Abstract

Jon Roberts is an American intellectual historian with special interests in the history of Anglo-American religious thought, the history of science in both Europe and North America, and the relationship between science and religion. He is the author of Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, 1869-1900 and the co-author (with James Turner) of The Sacred and the Secular University . He is currently working on several projects dealing with the history of the relationship between science and religion, as well as a book dealing with the efforts of mainstream American Protestant intellectuals during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to defend the privileged status of mind--divine and human--in the face of a series of challenges from forces associated with "modernity." Publications Abstract