{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:28:41","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/files\/BettySmocovitis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/files\/BettySmocovitis-1-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-923\" style=\"width:256px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/files\/BettySmocovitis-1-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/files\/BettySmocovitis-1-200x234.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/files\/BettySmocovitis-1-300x351.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/files\/BettySmocovitis-1.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor, History of Science<br>\nDepartments of <a href=\"http:\/\/biology.ufl.edu\">Biology <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.ufl.edu\/\">History<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Affiliate, Biodiversity Institute; Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies; Center for European Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The history, philosophy and sociology of the twentieth century biological sciences, especially evolutionary biology, genetics, systematics, and ecology.\u00a0 The history of the botanical sciences in the United States of America. The history of biological anthropology. Race, class, gender, ethnicity, immigration and science. History of scientific societies and periodicals. Science in the United States of America, Great Britain and Japan.\u00a0 Historiography of science. Biography. Intellectual and cultural history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coeditor-in-Chief of <em>Journal of the History of Biology<\/em><\/li>\n<li>President,\u00a0 International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)<\/li>\n<li>Board of Directors, Ameerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ph.D.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BSc (Hons) University of Western Ontario<\/li>\n<li>UF Term Professorship, CLAS<\/li>\n<li>Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professorship, University of Warsaw<\/li>\n<li>Mellon Fellow, The Humanities Institute, New York Botanical Garden<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Wood Dunlevie Honors Term Professor<\/li>\n<li>UF Distinguished Alumni Professor<\/li>\n<li>Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar<\/li>\n<li>Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, Stanford University<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:bsmocovi@ufl.edu<br>\nPhone: (352) 392-9647<br>\nFax: (352)\u00a0392-3704<br>\nOffice: 617 Carr Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Mailing address:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Biology<br>\nPO Box 118525<br>\nBartram Hall, University of Florida<br>\nGainesville, FL 32611-8525, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/bsmocovi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}