Background
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis was born on November 15, 1955, in Mansoura, Ad Daqahliyah, Egypt. She is a daughter of Dimitrios and Alexandra (Karabogias) Smocovitis. Vassiliki Smocovitis immigrated to the United States in 1988.
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.
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis was born on November 15, 1955, in Mansoura, Ad Daqahliyah, Egypt. She is a daughter of Dimitrios and Alexandra (Karabogias) Smocovitis. Vassiliki Smocovitis immigrated to the United States in 1988.
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, and the National Museum and Art Gallery in Papua New Guinea. She also was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar and visited nine college and university campuses in the United States.
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.
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 a member of the International Society for the Study of History, History of Science Society, American Botanical Society, Society for the Study of Evolution and Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology. In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.