New Fellow in the Winter Term: James T. Costa
22 December 2022
We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. James T. Costa at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. James T. Costa is Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station and Professor of Biology at Western Carolina University in North Carolina, USA, where he teaches biogeography, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and a comparative temperate-tropical ecology field course split between Highlands Biological Station and Wildsumaco Biological Station in Ecuador. His scientific research has most recently focused on invasive insects and conservation, while his interests in the history of evolutionary thinking have led him to publish extensively on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. During his research stay in Hamburg in January and February 2023, he will investigate the topic »The first Utopian evolutionist: Selection in the service of Utopia in the scientific and social thought of Alfred Russel Wallace«.