Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
1151 Richmond St, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
University of Western Ontario where Vassiliki Smocovitis received a Bachelor of Science degree.
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
Cornell University where Vassiliki Smocovitis received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis with Christopher Koehler and Prof. Geoffrey Giles in 1998.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis delivers a lecture Masuo Kodani, a Japanese American geneticist.
1151 Richmond St, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
University of Western Ontario where Vassiliki Smocovitis received a Bachelor of Science degree.
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
Cornell University where Vassiliki Smocovitis received a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis delivers a lecture Masuo Kodani, a Japanese American geneticist.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis with Christopher Koehler and Prof. Geoffrey Giles in 1998.
https://www.amazon.com/Unifying-Biology-Evolutionary-Smocovitis-1996-11-11/dp/B01K0PTOH4/?tag=2022091-20
1996
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis was born on November 15, 1955, in Mansoura, Ad Daqahliyah, Egypt. She is a daughter of Dimitrios and Alexandra Smocovitis both from Greece. Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis immigrated to Canada as child and was educated there and left to attend Cornell University where she received her doctoral degree. She has resided in the United States since 1988 when she was appointed professor in the history department at the University of Florida.
Vassiliki Smocovitis attended the University of Western Ontario where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1979. She also studied at Cornell University and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1988.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis started her career as an assistant professor at the University of Florida in 1988. In 1997, she was appointed an associate professor. Since 2006 Smocovitis has been working as a professor of zoology and history at the University of Florida. She also worked as a Distinguished Alumni Professor from 2009 to 2011 and as an Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor from 2014 to 2015.
Smocovitis has delivered lectures all over the world, and has held formal appointments at Stanford University, the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science (MITHE) at the University of Athens in Athens, Greece, the National Museum and Art Gallery in Papua New Guinea, and the Kolegium Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland. She also was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and visited nine college and university campuses in the United States and is a Fellow of the AAAS. She is incoming president of ISHPSSB and is Co-Editor in Chief of Journal of the History of Biology.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis published her book Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology in 1996. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Isis, Osiris, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Journal of the History of Biology, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, American Journal of Botany, Social Epistemology, and Taxon along with Science, Nature and the Quarterly Review of Biology.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis is a Canadian educator and writer who is famous for her book Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology which was designated as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books of 1997. She received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. In 1990-92, she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. In 2000 she was elected Fellow of the AAAS, and is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of the History of Biology, and incoming president of the ISHPSSB.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis received the Young Botanist Recognition Award and the University of Western Ontario Gold Medal in 1979. She also received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award and the University-Level Teaching Award. In 1993, Smocovitis received the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award and in 1994 she won Teaching Improvement Program Award. In 2012, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis won the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize.
Quotations:
"My primary research interest is in the recent history of modern biological science, falling into areas broadly conceived as the history of modern evolutionary biology, systematics, and genetics."
"My research to date has been in the history of the subject defining itself as ‘organismic’ biology, but having had extensive training in general biology, I am also interested in the history of cell biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology."
Vassiliki Smocovitis is incoming president of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, and a member of the History of Science Society, Botanical Society of America, Society for the Study of Evolution. In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
