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Ullica Segerstrale
Country:
United States of America
WAAS Designation:
Fellow
Primary Position & Institution:
Professor of Sociology and Director, Camras Scholars program, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Short Bio:
Ullica Segerstrale is a Professor of Sociology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. She has a Master's degree in organic chemistry and sociology from Helsinki University, a Master's in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard.
At Illinois Tech she has served as Chair of the Social Sciences Department and director of the Camras Scholars Program for outstanding students. Earlier positions include Acting Chair of Sociology at Abo Akademi University, Finland; Senior Researcher at the National Academy of Finland; Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) in Bielefeld, Germany; Visiting Professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, and Fulbright Fellow.
Segerstrale is a Fellow of WAAS, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. Her research has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Rockefeller and Sloan foundations, among others. She is the recipient of a number of awards for teaching, leadership, and research. In 2017 she was honored by the Illinois Tech’s Board of Trustees Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
She is the author of over 100 academic publications and the author or editor of 4 books. She has given over 150 academic presentations, including keynote addresses and lectures in many academic lecture series. Her research interests include science and values, human nature and human future, social aspects of architecture, and scientific conduct and misconduct. Other interests include languages and traveling.