Elizabeth (Lizzie) Schulz
- Email: wccq1608@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: The 'great Tree of Life': Darwinism, Evolution, and the Evolutionary Tree
- Supervisors: Professor Gregory Radick, Professor Jonathan Topham
Profile
My PhD project, which began in 2024, focuses on the “evolutionary tree” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. I am specifically interested in how the “evolutionary tree” is related to Darwin(ism), how that relationship has changed over time, and how it affects evolutionary theory today. This research is funded by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH).
Before beginning my PhD at Leeds, I completed an MSc at the University of Oxford for which my dissertation also focused on evolutionary trees and Darwinism, but moreso in the mid- and late-nineteenth century. Prior to that, I completed an interdisciplinary undergraduate, BA&Sc at McGill University in Canada with a double major in English Literature and Cell/Molecular Biology.
Research interests
- History and philosophy of the evolutionary tree
- History and philosophy of biology
- History of Darwinism
- Scientific imagery and visual culture
Qualifications
- MSc History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford
- BA&Sc English Literature and Cell/Molecular Biology, McGill University
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for History and Philosophy of Science
- Digital Cultures