David E. Long

David E. Long holds a Ph.D. in the study of high education from the University of Kentucky. His primary research follows two tracks. One focuses on the cognitive, social, and philosophical dimensions of student and teacher understanding of evolution, climate change science, and genetic engineering. Another examines how political and religious ideology mediates science education implementation in schools, universities, and in the civic discourse. His work appears in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Cultural Studies of Science Education, Ethnography & Education, and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. He is author of Evolution and Religion in American Education: An Ethnography (Springer).