Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle (born October 10, 1945) is an American sociologist and historian of science who is professor of sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
[3][4] Segerstråle's published nonfiction books include Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond (2000) and Nature’s Oracle: The Life and Work of W. D. Hamilton (2013), the latter of which is the first biography of evolutionary biologist W.D.
[5][6] Ullica Christina Olofsdotter Segerstråle was born October 10, 1945, in Finland.
[8] Her Ph.D. thesis described the sociobiology controversy of the 1970s, and it subsequently formed the basis of an article published in the first issue of Biology & Philosophy in 1986.
[9][10] A Guggenheim Fellow in 2002,[1] she was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2012.