Chris Young is a professor of Biology at Alverno College, where he has taught since 2002. He teaches courses on global warming, evolution, natural history, and science education, in addition to introductory biology. Over the past three years he has volunteered and consulted for the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee, helping to guide the effort of sharing this distinctive model of urban environmental education. In 2015, he was a teaching fellow at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Prior to coming to Alverno, Young was the assistant director of the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He also previously worked as a pollution control specialist for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Young’s books include In the Absence of Predators, about the 1920s wildlife management controversy over deer on the Kaibab Plateau, and The Environment and Science, a look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes and public policy. He also co-edited Nature Remade, a collection of essays exploring the history of biological engineering, and Evolution and Creationism, an examination of some of the most important documents in the Evolution-Creation debates. Young has also given numerous presentations across the country on the history of wildlife, conservation, ecology and field biology. He has done both radio and television interviews. For the Urban Ecology Center, he has run three acclaimed training workshops that have engaged over seventy participants from locations across the U.S. and Mexico, as well as Colombia, Pakistan and Israel.
Young earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota’s Program in the History of Science and Technology in 1997. He’s a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Science Teachers Association, the National Association of Biology Teachers, the Columbia History of Science Group, the History of Science Society and the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology.
