Evelyn Fox Keller

Evelyn Fox Keller is professor of history and philosophy of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, Keller was most recently elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Trained in theoretical physics and molecular biology, Keller’s many publications include the groundbreaking Reflections on Gender and Science (1985) and, most recently, The Century of the Gene (2000) and Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors and Machines (2002). Her ideas about the ways that language and gendered ideology, in particular, shape the scientific enterprise have stimulated important discourse, both in and out of the laboratory, concerning how scientific work is conceived, conducted and received.