John Hedley Brooke

Dr. John Hedley Brooke held the Andreas Idreos Professorship of Science & Religion at Oxford University from 1999 to 2006. He is a Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and Honorary Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University. In 2007 he was a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Durham University. His books include Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and (with Geoffrey Cantor) Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science & Religion (T & T Clark, 1998). His most recent book, co-edited with Ronald Numbers, is Science & Religion around the World (Oxford University Press, 2011) He is currently President of the International Society for Science & Religion.