Abraham Gibson

BOOK

• Abraham Gibson, Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016). 

EDITED COLLECTIONS

• Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, and Jane Maienschein, “Computational History and Philosophy of Science,” Isis (September 2019): 497-566.

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

• Abraham Gibson, “On the Hoof: Equine Mobility and the Fate of the Confederacy," in Animal Histories of the Civil War Era, edited by Earl J. Hess (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
• Abraham Gibson, “Feral Animals and the Engineering Ideal,” in Nature Remade: Engineering Life from Gene Drives to Gaia, edited by Luis Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Chris Young (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2020).
• Abraham Gibson and Cindy Ermus, “The History of Science and the Science of History: Computational Methods, Algorithms, and the Future of the Field,” Isis 110 (September 2019): 555-566.
• Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, and Jane Maienschein, “Introduction to Focus Section: Computational History and Philosophy of Science” Isis 110 (September 2019): 497-501. 
• Abraham Gibson, “The Moonshine Capital of the World: A Visual History of Untaxed Whiskey in Franklin County, Virginia,” Environmental History 24 (July 2019): 584-596.
• “Biology in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” Review essay in Biology & Culture section, Journal of the History of Biology (June 2019): 565-569.
• Abraham Gibson and Cindy Ermus, “Swamp Things: Invasive Species as Environmental Disasters,” in Disaster and Risk in the Gulf South, edited by Cindy Ermus (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018), 103-130.
• Abraham Gibson, “Path to the Present,” in Cambridge Handbook on Evolutionary Ethics, edited by Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 72-85 .
• Abraham Gibson, “Beasts of Burden: Feral Burros in the American West,” in The Historical Animal, edited by Susan Nance (Syracuse University Press, 2015), 38-53.
• Abraham Gibson and Michael Ruse, “Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology,” in A Companion to the History of American Science, edited by Georgina Montgomery and Mark Largent (Wiley, 2015), 252-262. 
• Abraham Gibson, “Edward O. Wilson and the Organicist Tradition,” Journal of the History of Biology 46 (2013): 599-630.
• Abraham Gibson, Christina Kwapich, and Martha Lang, “Roots of Multilevel Selection: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 35 (2013): 505-532.
  • Reprinted in: The Historical and Conceptual Place of Multilevel Selection in Evolution, edited by Ciprian Jeler (London: Macmillan, 2018), 13-45.
• Abraham Gibson, “American Gibraltar: Key West during World War II,” Florida Historical Quarterly 90 (2012): 393-425.

BOOK REVIEWS

• “Book review of The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, by Rebecca Woods.” H-Environment Roundtable Reviews (2019).
• “Book review of Wild by Heart: North American Animals Confront Colonization, by Andrea L. Smalley.” Journal of Southern History 84 (August 2018): 704-706.
• “Book review of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism, by Tiago Saraiva.” Journal of the History of Biology 51 (2018): 183-185.
• “Book review of Runes of Evolution: How the Universe Became Self-Aware, by Simon Conway Morris.” Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (2017): 321.
• “Book review of Animals as Food: (Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts, by Amy J. Fitzgerald.” Agricultural History 91 (Winter 2017): 133-134.
• “Book review of The Readable Darwin: The Origin of Species, edited by Jan A. Pechenik.” Quarterly Review of Biology 90 (June 2015): 217.
• “Book review of On the Frontier of Science, by Leah Ceccarelli.” Quarterly Review of Biology 90 (March 2015): 78-79.