Professor Emerita, History of Science; PhD, University of Toronto
Sharon Kingsland (PhD 1981, University of Toronto) was on the faculty of the History of Science and Technology Department at Johns Hopkins University from 1981 to 2020. She studies the history of modern life sciences, especially ecology, and has published Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology (1984; 2nd ed. 1995); The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (2005), and A Lab for All Seasons: The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology (2023). She has co-edited volumes on the history of biology and agriculture, and on long-term ecological research.
Current Interests: History of biology, Ecological science, Plant ‘intelligence’ debates, Botanical science and popularization.