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Name: Dale Peterson
Title: Lecturer in English
Departmental Affiliation: English Department
Degrees: Ph.D., English, Stanford University, M.A., English, Stanford University, B.A., English and Psychology, University of Rochester
Expertise: Expository Writing
Major Awards:
Denver Post – Best Book of the Year, 2006,
New York Times – Notable Book of the Year, 2006, 1993,
Boston Globe – Book of the Year, 2006,
The Economist – Best Book of the Year, Science and Technology, 2003,
Discover –- Top Science Book of the Year, 2003,
Bloomsbury Review – Editors' Favorite Book of 2003,
L.L. Winship/ PEN New England Award, finalist, 1997,
Village Voice – Best Book of the Year, 1996,
Library Journal – Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year, 1993,
Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize (Britain) – Finalist, 1991
E-mail: dpeterson99@earthlink.net

Scholarship & Research: Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Translated into Korean.

Eating Apes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. Translated into Japanese.

Beyond Innocence: Jane Goodall's Autobiography in Letters, the Later Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Africa in my Blood: Jane Goodall's Autobiography in Letters, the Early Years. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Translated into Chinese.

Storyville, USA. Athens: University of Georgia, 1999.

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Co-authored with Richard Wrangham. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Chimpanzee travels: On and Off the Road in Africa. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995. Translated into Dutch

Visions of Caliban: On Chimpanzees and People. Co-authored with Jane Goodall. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. Translated into Chinese, German, and Polish; recorded for the blind.

The Deluge and the Ark: A Journey into Primate Worlds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989

CoCo Logo. Co-authored with Don Inman and Ramon Zamora. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1985.

Intelligent Schoolhouse: On Computers & Learning. Reston, VA: Reston, 1984.

Genesis II: Creation and Recreation with Computers. Reston, VA: Reston, 1983.

Big Things from Little Computers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.

A Mad People's History of Madness. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982.

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