Dr. Mary Pickard Winsor

Mary Pickard Winsor, PhD

Professor Winsor's interest in invertebrate systematics began in the tide pools of her native Massachusetts.During the summers of her school years, she worked in the Mollusk Department at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and at the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, including a cruise on the R.V. Atlantis II.Dr. Winsor studied ecology as an undergraduate at Harvard and as a graduate student at Yale (under G.E. Hutchinson).
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Dr. Winsor has also studied the role of systematics in the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology of the 1940s (Hist. Phil.Life Sci.17 [1995]: 227-252).Her next book, she says, will attempt to place the history of systematics into the larger narrative of the progress of biological science.

Professor Winsor's primary appointment is in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, where she has taught since 1969.In addition, Dr. Winsor is cross-appointed to the Department of Zoology and teaches the course, History of Biology, to forty students in the Zoology Department.