David N. Livingstone

David N. Livingstone is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at the Queen’s University of Belfast, and is currently Vice-President of the Royal Geographical Society. He recently received the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal for the Social Sciences and is the author of several books including The Geographical Tradition (1992), Putting Science in its Place (2003) and Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins (2008). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.