Rate My Professor Nathan Crowe

Nathan Crowe is an associate professor of History specializing in the history of science, Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of History, and Director of the Medical Humanities minor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He earned a Ph.D. in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2011, a Master of Science in History from North Carolina State University, and a B.A. from St. Mary's College of Maryland. His research examines the intersection of biology, technology, and culture in the modern world, with emphasis on the history of cloning and the biological revolution, developmental biology after World War II, memory and memorialization of biotechnologies, and ethical and environmental issues arising from contemporary research into marine biotechnologies. Crowe teaches a wide variety of courses related to the history of science, technology, medicine, and medical humanities, including History of Science I: Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution, History of Science II: The Rise of Modern Science, Medical Humanities, Biotechnology and Society, Science and Technology in the 20th Century, and Topics in the History of Science and Technology: The Darwinian Revolution.

The author of Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which was honored as one of the top forty bestsellers in the history of science by Library Journal for 2021-2022, Crowe has published numerous articles including "How to Choose Your Research Organism" (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2020), "The Diversification of Developmental Biology" (2015), "The Historiography of Biotechnology" (Handbook of the Historiography of Biology, 2021), and "Cancer, Conflict, and the Development of Nuclear Transplantation Techniques" (Journal of the History of Biology, 2014). He completed his dissertation, A 'Fantastical' Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-1970 (University of Minnesota, 2011). Crowe has earned every available teaching award at UNCW: the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award (2023-2026), Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award (2023-2024), and Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award (2021-2022), along with the Discere Aude Award for outstanding student mentoring (2019-2020) and the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize from the History of Science Society (2018).