Diane B. Paul is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Research Associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.  Her research, which focuses on historical and policy issues in genetics, has appeared in a wide range of historical, policy-oriented, and scientific journals.  Her books include Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (1995) and The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine, and the Nature-Nurture Debate (1998).  Her recent essays include “Darwin, Social Darwinism, and Eugenics,” in the Cambridge Companion to Darwin (2003; new edition 2009), “On Drawing Lessons from the History of Eugenics" in LP Knowles and GE Kaebnick, eds., Reprogenetics: Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues (Johns Hopkins, 2007), “John Stuart Mill, Innate Differences, and the Regulation of Reproduction,” Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed. Sci. 39 (2008) 222-231, “Patient Advocacy in Newborn Screening: Continuities and Discontinuities,” American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C 148C:8-14 (2008), 8-14, and “‘It’s Ok, We’re Not Cousins by Blood’: The Cousin Marriage Controversy in Historical Perspective,” PLOS Biology 6 (2008). She is currently at work on an NIH-funded project, “A Policy-oriented History of Newborn Screening for PKU.”  Prof. Paul has been a Visiting Scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia, the Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard Medical School, and the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.  In winter and spring 2009 she will be Visiting Professor at the Center for Society and Genetics at UCLA.