David N. Livingstone


David Noel Livingstone is a Northern Ireland-born geographer, historian, and academic. He is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast.

Personal background

David Livingstone was born in Northern Ireland, and educated at Banbridge Academy and Queen's University Belfast. Following graduation, he continued at Queen's as a Research Officer and Lecturer, becoming Reader and then full Professor. He has held visiting professorships at Calvin College, Michigan, University of British Columbia, University of Notre Dame, and Baylor University. He is married to Frances Livingstone, has two children, and lives in Belfast. He was appointed an OBE for his services to Geography and History, and CBE for services to scholarship in Geography, History of Science and Intellectual History.

Books

Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought.Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science.The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise The Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion Human Geography: An Essential Anthology, joint editor with John A. Agnew and Alistair Rodgers Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective, edited with D. G. Hart and Mark A. Noll.Geography and Enlightenment, edited with Charles W. J. Withers Ulster-American Religion: Moments in the History of a Cultural Connection, with Ronald Wells Science, Space and Hermeneutics, The Hettner Lectures 2001 Putting Science in its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge Geography and Revolution, joint editor with Charles W. J. Withers Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion & the Politics of Human Origins
  • ''Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution''

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