Cheryl A. Logan (Columbia University)
Cheryl Logan is Professor of Psychology and History and former Director of
the Center for Critical Inquiry at UNCG. Trained as a psychobiologist, she now
specializes in the history of endocrinology, the history of eugenics, and in early
twentieth century applications of biology to the social sciences and society. Her
current project is a book tentatively entitled, Spectacular Failure in Science.
Hormones, Heredity and Race: Vienna 1902-1934 (Rutgers University Press).
It focuses on three Austrian scientists who tried to modernize the concept of the
inheritance of acquired characteristics by linking it to endocrinology. Their efforts to
explain flexible heredity challenged the inflexible concepts of race and sexuality that
were prominent in interwar biology.
Publications
- "Overheated rats, race and the double gland: Paul Kammerer, endocrinology and the problem of somatic induction." Journal of the History of Biology, 40 (2007): 683- 725.
- "Cases and prototypes: Constitutionalism and the photographic portrayal of the person in Freud's Vienna." Visual Resources (Issue on "Visual Documentation In Freud's Vienna") Vol. XXIII, (2007): 64-83.
- (with Timothy Johnston) "Synthesis and separation in the relation between 'Nature' and 'Nurture'." Developmental Psychobiology, 49 (2007): 758-769.
- "Reproduction versus sexuality: Eugen Steinach and the mammalian puberty gland." In Roots of Sexual Hormone Research, Rudolf Werner Soukup, Ed., in press.
Address: Departments of Psychology and History, P. O. Box 26170, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
email: calogan@uncg.edu
