Senior lecturer in
history and philosophy of biology
Cain's research interests include the history of evolutionary studies, history of American science, and history of natural history. He also has expertise in Darwin and Darwinism as well as history of science in London. (more)

J DOT Cain AT ucl.ac.uk
020 7679 3041 office
020 7679 1328 dept
office hours Winter 2010

Dr Joe Cain

New project
>"Darwin's in the Hospital" open at Univeristy College Hospital (Web)

New articles
>Cain, Joe. 2009. Rethinking the Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies
>Cain, Joe. 2009. Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated George Gaylord Simpson. (Web)

New BSc course modules
Cain's HPSC modules are changing, with two new courses and changes to existing ones (Web)

other news
>vote in the UK (Web)
>recent publications (Web)
>news items (Web)

London Centre MSc
History of Science, Medicine
and Technology
>Centre's Web site
>Cain's teaching
>Core course
>SAI course
>20thC course

For the London Centre, Joe serves in several roles:
>Convenor, SAI
>Convenor, Core 2009-10
>London Centre Board

First class essays
>sample some brilliant student work (Web)

2008-09 course evaluations
>HPSC3012 (pdf)
>HPSC2013/HMED3001 (pdf)
>HPSC1006 (pdf)

Joe is Editor of BSHS Monographs and an Associate Editor of British Journal for the History of Science. Joe also is Director of the Voices Project. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Journal of the History of Biology and of Studies in the History of Biology (Russian). Joe is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. He is past-president of the Society for the History of Natural History, has been Associate Editor of Archives of Natural History, and has served on the Council of the Linnean Society, the British Society for the History of Science and the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. Joe also is past-chair of the Advisory Board for the Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies for the HE Academy.

Joe has won several teaching awards:
2008 MAPS Faculty Teaching Award, UCL
2007 Joseph Hazen Education Prize, History of Science Society (Web)
2001 MAPS Faculty Teaching Award, UCL

Joe uses photography to advance learning in his subjects. His photograph "connecting threads" won the BSHS OEC Image Prize for 2007 (Web). He also regularly contributes to UCL's Research Images competition (2008; 2007; 2006).

Participating in UCL interdisciplinary groups:
Centre for Transnational History (Web)
Centre for Ecology and Evolution (Web)

departmental responsibilities
STS careers officer (link)
STS department recruitment committee, chair
STS computer officer
STS Web editor
STS library officer

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Evolution:
a journal of nature
>magazine published in 1920s-1930s by pro-evolutionists in response to Scopes Trial
(Web)

Descended from Darwin volume
>Cain and Ruse (eds). 2009.
Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970 (Web)

Other books
>Cain and Messenger (eds). Charles Darwin. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. 2nd edition (Web)
>Cain (ed.). 2009.
The Last Message of William Jennings Bryan (Web)
>Cain. 2007. Sewall Wright Taught Me series. 3 volumes (Web)
>Cain. 2007. Regular Contact With Anyone Interested. 2nd edition (Web)
>Cain. 2004. Exploring the Borderlands (Web)

Articles in new volume
>Joe has contributed 11 articles to Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. (Web)