Books

• Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology
  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996) 248 pages
  Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of 1997.
• With Daniel J. Crawford, editors. The Scientific Papers of G.
  Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (1929-1930). Edited and with an Historical
  Introduction. A. R. G. Gantner Verlag: Ruggell, Liechtenstein,
  2004. Regnum Vegetabile, volume 142. (Part I) (Part II) (Part III)
• With Victoria Hollowell and Eileen Duggan, editors. The
  Ladyslipper and I by G. Ledyard Stebbins. Missouri Botanical
  Garden Press, 2007.

Monograph Articles

• The Plant Drosophila: E. B. Babcock, the Genus Crepis and the
  Evolution of a Genetics Research Program at Berkeley, 1912-1947.
  Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2009a): 300-355. (pdf)
• Keeping Up with Dobzhansky: G. Ledyard Stebbins, Plant Evolution,
  and the Evolutionary Synthesis, History and Philosophy of the Life
  Sciences 28 (2006a): 11-50. (pdf)
• The 1959 Darwin Centennial Celebration in America, Clark Elliot
  and Pnina Abir-Am eds. Commemorations of Scientific Grandeur.
  Osiris 14 (1999a): 274-323. (pdf)
• Organizing Evolution: Founding the Society for the Study of Evolution,
  1939-1947, Journal of the History of Biology 27 (1994a); 241-309. (pdf)
• Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology,
  Journal of the History of Biology 25 (1992a): 1-65. (pdf)

Articles, Chapters, Commentaries and Review Essays

• Smocovitis, V. B.  “Plants and  Manifest Destiny:  American Botanists
  and the Cinchona Missions’ in Latin America (1942-1945)”  in
  “Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies,” edited by Steven Oberhelman in the
  series “Medical Traditions, “ Berlin: DeGruyter, 2025, pp. 663-680.
  DOI 10.1515/9783110778878-027
• Mabry, Makenzie, Nuala Caomhanach. R. Shawn Abrahams,
  Michelle L. Gaynor, Kasey Pham, Tanisha Williams,, Kathleen S.
  Murphy, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Douglas Soltis, and Pamela S.
  Soltis, “Building an Inclusive Botany: A Radicle Dream.”
  Plants, People, Planet 2024:1-14 https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10478
• Soltis, Douglas, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Kasey K. Pham,
  Maria Beatriz S. Cortez, Annika L. Smith, and Pamela S. Soltis,
  “Rethinking the Ph.D. Dissertation in Botany: Widening the
  Circle,“ American Journal of Botany 10 (2023): 1-8.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16136
• Smocovitis, V.B., “History, Evolution and the ‘Rashomon Effect:’”
  A Reply to Erik Svensson’s “The structure of evolutionary
  theory: beyond Neo-Darwinism, Neo-Lamarckism and biased
  historical narratives about the Modern Synthesis.” In Thomas A.
  Dickins and Benjamin J. A. Dickins eds. Evolutionary Biology:
  Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory,
  2023, pp. 59-61.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “Evolution is bigger than all of us”: A Commentary
  on T. N. Vidya, Sutirth Dey, N.G. Prasad, and Amitabh Joshi, “The
  Darwinian core of evolutionary theory and the extended “evolutionary
  synthesis: similarities and differences.” In Thomas A. Dickins
  and Benjamin J. A. Dickins eds. Evolutionary Biology:
  Contemporary and HistoricallReflections Upon Core Theory.
  Springer Publications, 2023, pp. 329-334.
• Smocovitis, V. B., “Every evolutionist their own historian: the
  importance of history, context and the ‘Extended Evolutionary
  Synthesis’” in Thomas A. Dickins and Benjamin J. A. Dickins eds.
  Evolutionary Biology:Contemporary and Historical Reflections
  Upon Core Theory. Springer Publications 2023,pp. 25-54.
• Sumner, Dale R., Sabine Hildebrandt, Allison Nesbitt, Melissa A.
  Carroll, Vassiliki B.Smocovitis, Jeffrey T. Laitman, Amy C. Beresheim,
  Christopher J. Ramnanan, Michael L. Blakey, “Racism, Structural
  Racism, and the American Association for Anatomy: Initial Report
  from a Task Force,”The Anatomical Record, (2022): 1-16.
  https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24903
• Smocovitis, V. B. “Evolution, Without History?”  Biosemiotics 14 (2021):
  131-134.
• Smocovitis, “History, Rhetoric and Synthesis in Twentieth Century
  American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology,” American Journal
  of Physical Anthropology, 176 (3), 543-544.August 26, 2021:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24386
• Smocovitis, V. B. and Daniel J. Bolnick, Christopher M. Moore and
  Patricia L. Morse, “Trends and Transitions in 150 Years of
  The American Naturalist.” American Naturalis 196 (2020): 663-678.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “Some Day a Big Plague Will Come,” Isis 111 (2020):
  814-817.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “Historicizing the Synthesis: Critical Insights and
  Pivotal Moments in the Long History of Evolutionary Theory,” in
  Sam Scheiner and David Mindell eds, Evolutionary Theory,
  University of Chicago Press, 2020, pp. 25-45.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “The Modern Synthesis,” Oxford Bibliographies,
  Evolution,”edited by Douglas Futuyma, “Evolutionary Biology.”
  http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199941728/obo-
  9780199941728-0115.xml, 2019.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “Eloge: Hamilton Cravens (1938-2015),”
  Isis 109 (2018): 608-611.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “Eloge: William B. Provine (1942-2015), “
  Isis, Vol 108 (2017): 855-860.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “The History of Evolutionary Biology,”
  in Richard Kliman, Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary
  Biology, Elsevier Press (2016): 32-39.
• Smocovitis, V. B. “The Unifying Vision: Julian Huxley, The
  Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Humanism.”  Geert Somsen
  and Harmke Kamminga, eds. Pursuing the Unity of Science: Ideology
  and Scientific Practice Between the Great War and the Cold War.
  Ashgate Press, 2016, pp. 29-50). (pdf)
• Burian, Richard and V. B. Smocovitis, Foreword to David West,
  Darwin’s Man in Brazil: The Natural History of Fritz Muller, University of
  Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, 2016..
• Smocovitis, V. B., “The Variation and Evolution of Plants: Historical
  Perspectives” Studies in the  History and Philosophy of the
  Biomedical and Biological Sciences 50 (2015) 77-79.
• “Charles Darwin,” Oxford Bibliographies, Ecology, David Gibson,
  editor-in-chief (entry of just under 25,000 words), 2014:
  http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/
  obo-9780199830060/obo-9780199830060-0122.xml
• The Voice of American Botanists: The Early History of the American
  Journal of Botany. American Journal of Botany 101(2014): 389-398.
• Disciplining and Popularizing: Evolution and its Publics from the
  Modern Synthesis Onwards. Historical Studies of the Biological
  and Biomedical Sciences (On-line published Fall 2013;
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136984861300126X)
• Botany and the Evolutionary Synthesis (1900-1950), in Michael Ruse,
  ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought,
  Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 313-322.
• Dr. Kuhn, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Structure.”
  In A Repository for More than Anecdote: Fifty Years of The Structure of
  Scientific Revolutions. Special Section of Historical Studies in the
  Natural Sciences 42(2012): 564-569.Humanizing Evolution: Anthropology,
  The Evolutionary Synthesis and the Prehistory of Biological Anthropology
  (1927-1962). Current Anthropology, 53 (2012). Online edition. (pdf)
• Genetics Behind Barbed Wire: Masuo Kodani, Émigré Geneticists,
  and Wartime Genetics Research at Manzanar Relocation Center,
  1942-1945,” Genetics 187 (2011): 357-366.
• Where are We? Historical Reflections on Evolutionary Biology in the
  Twentieth Century, in M. Bell, D. J. Futuyma, W. F. Eanes, and J. S.
  Levinton (eds.) Evolution Since Darwin: The First 150 Years. Sinauer
  Press, 2010, pp. 49-58.
• Marjorie, Matriarchy, and “Wretched Reflection”: A Personal
  Remembrance of Marjorie Grene, Biological Theory
  4(2009e): 191-195. (pdf)
• Mongrels and Hybrids: The Problem of Race in the Botanical World,
  in Paul Farber and Hamilton Cravens eds. Race and Science
  Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America Oregon
  State University Press (2009d): 81-91. (pdf)
• Singing His Praises: Darwin and His Theory in Song and Musical
  Production, Isis, 100 (2009c):590-614. (pdf)
• Darwin’s Botany in On the Origin of Species, in Michael Ruse and
  Robert J. Richards, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin’s
  Origin. Cambridge University Press, 2008a. Chapter 12,
  pp. 216-237. (pdf)
• Darwin of the Twentieth Century: Defender of the Faith. A Profile of
  Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Biological Theory 2 (2008b): 1-4. (pdf)
• Foreword: Rewriting a Life. Introduction to the Ladyslipper and I, by
  G. Ledyard Stebbins, in Victoria Hollowell, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
  and Eileen Duggan eds. The Ladyslipper and I by G. Ledyard Stebbins,
  Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2007a. (pdf)
• Pas de Deux: The Biographer and the Living Biographical Subject,
  in Thomas Soderqvist, ed. The Poetics of Biography in Science,
  Technology and Medicine. Ashgate Press, 2007b. pp. 207-219. (pdf)