Myrna Perez Sheldon, Ph.D.

Perez Sheldon is an associate professor jointly appointed in Classics and Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as executive director of the Cutler Scholar’s Program at Ohio University. She is a historian of evolutionary theory, a feminist and critical -race theorist, and a scholar of religion. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Science Department at Harvard University and has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She was also a research fellow at the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University and at the Harvard Divinity School.

She has published on sexuality, race, Christianity, and evolutionary theory in Signs: A Journal of Women and Society, American Quarterly, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, and elsewhere. She is the principal investigator of a three-year grant, “Critical Approaches to Science and Religion,” from the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the president of the Board at the Center for Brown, Black, and Queer Studies.