Joel Schwartz

Schwartz, emeritus professor of Biology at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, taught for forty years His scholarly interest has been in the history of biology, focused on nineteenth-century natural history, on the development of the theory of evolution, and how maritime exploration stimulated discovery in the natural sciences.

He is the author of two books in the field, Darwin's Disciple: George John Romanes, A Life in Letters, and Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society. In addition, he has written numerous scholarly articles in the history of biology.