Peter Sachs Collopy

I am a graduate student in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where I study biology and technology as they relate to politics and religion. My research focuses on three subjects: American theistic evolutionism in the decades around 1900; ideas about race and human evolution in mid twentieth century anthropology; and technological utopianism and countercultural video in the 1970s.

I’m also a board member of Mariposa Food Co-op in West Philadelphia, an administrator of the online writing community Everything2, a computer programmer, and a Tae Kwon Do practitioner.