UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE    
CURRICULUM VITA                                    

William H. Calvin, Ph.D.

Vital stats:

1957-1960        Northwestern University (B.A. with Honors in Physics, 1961)

1961-1962        MIT, Communications Biophysics Group, Graduate Research Assistant

1962                  Harvard Medical School, visiting graduate student

1962-1966        University of Washington, Physiology and Biophysics, Ph.D.

1967-                 University of Washington faculty (various)

1978-1979         Visiting Professor of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1998-                 Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
                             University of Washington School of Medicine.

Books:

William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (1980).  Inside the Brain:  Mapping the Cortex, Exploring the Neuron.  New York:  New American Library.

William H. Calvin (1983).  The Throwing Madonna:  Essays on the Brain.  New York:  McGraw-Hill.  Revised edition by Bantam (July, 1991).  Authors Guild reprint edition, 2001.

William H. Calvin (1986).  The River That Flows Uphill:  A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain.  New York:  Macmillan. 

William H. Calvin (1989).  The Cerebral Symphony:  Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness.  New York:  Bantam. 

William H. Calvin (1990).  The Ascent of Mind:  Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence.  New York:  Bantam.   

William H. Calvin (1991).  How the Shaman Stole the Moon.  New York:  Bantam. 

William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (1994).  Conversations with Neil's Brain:  The Neural Nature of Thought and Language (Addison-Wesley trade book, now Perseus Books).   

William H. Calvin  (1996). How Brains Think:  Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now  (Basic Books, part of Science Masters series with 13 translation editions).  Book of the Month Club. 

William H. Calvin (1996).  The Cerebral Code:  Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind (M.I.T. Press).  Research monograph.  1998 paperback.  German translation 2000. 

William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton (2000).  Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain.  MIT Press.  Research monograph.  Spanish translation.

William H. Calvin (2002).  A Brain for All Seasons:  Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change.  University of Chicago Press.  Phi Beta Kappa book award for science, 2002.

William H. Calvin (2004).  A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond.  Oxford University Press.  

A sampling of articles and chapters:

"Cortical Columns, Modules, and Hebbian Cell Assemblies," in: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, edited by Michael A. Arbib (Bradford Books/MIT Press), pp. 269-272 (1995).

"The Emergence of Intelligence," Scientific American Presents 9(4):44-51 (November 1998).  The longer version is in Scientific American (May 1994).  It's also out in audiotape:  Human Evolution: Selections from Scientific American Magazine by Stephen Jay Gould, William H. Calvin, Yves Coppens, Ian Tattersall, & Luca Cavalli-Sforza.

Recent Talks and Interviews The Waterloo lecture, "Culture first, genes later?  Sources of the mind's big bang 50,000 years ago." "When Climate Staggers" for Westminster College and also a second talk on what happened 50,000 years ago in the "creative explosion." "Cerebral Circuits for Creativity" for CalState Fresno linguistics and Stanford. "The evolution of structured thought" for UW Psychiatry Grand Rounds and the psychology department at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Slides for the Stanford futurist talk, "Faster than what?  The nimble and the ponderous."

I was interviewed (listen) for an hour on NPR's The Connection, talking about brains, climate, and bounceback. "When Climate Staggers" lecture for UW Biology. The ten-minute abrupt climate change talk KUOW, replay of a long radio interview about A Brain for All Seasons. I make a few appearances in Spencer Wells' The Journey of Man on PBS and National Geographic channel worldwide. Now in re-runs.  General information for lecture organizers   (bio, tag lines, CV, photos)

 

The Virtual Index for my books and articles, far better than my printed index in most cases:

WWW WilliamCalvin.com

 

 

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A Brief History
 of the Mind, 2004

A Brain for All Seasons
2002