2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4302
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: milam@umd.edu
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            Erika Milam is an historian of science who specializes in the history of the life sciences and the animal-human boundary. She has broad interests in evolutionary biology, gender and science, the connection between the natural and social sciences, and the history of science through science fiction. Dr. Milam is author of the forthcoming book, Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Johns Hopkins University Press, series in Animals, History, Culture). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Plank Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from August 2007 to December of 2008. Her current research project, "Animal cultures and the American search for human nature in the long 1960s," addresses how and why zoological and primatological research on animal behavior came to compete with anthropological studies of human cultures as sources of reliable information about human nature.

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