Faculty Emeritus

Norton Wise

Norton Wise

1977  Ph.D. in History of Science, Princeton University 1968  Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, Washington State University Dr. Norton Wise is a professor in the Department of History and at ISG.  He is a historian of science with PhD degrees in both physics and history, which helps to explain his longtime commitment to cross-disciplinary research and education. He began his career at UCLA in…

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Joan Silk

Joan Silk

Ph.D. University of California-Davis 1981 Joan Silk moved to Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change in 2012, from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of social behavior in primates.  Most of Silk’s empirical work has focused on the behavioral and reproductive strategies of female baboon. She recently initiated…

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