Deborah Rudacille

Deborah Rudacille
BornJuly 1958
Dundalk, Maryland, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationLoyola College (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (MA)
Occupation(s)Journalist and author
Websitedeborahrudacille.com

Deborah Rudacille (born July 1958) is an American journalist and science writer.[1] She has worked as a news editor for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative in New York, and in May 2012 became Professor of the Practice in journalism at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[2] In April 2017, Rudacille was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Science Writing for a project titled "The Family Disease: Alcoholism, Addiction and Inheritance."

Rudacille is the author of The Scalpel and the Butterfly (2000), a history of the practice and politics of animal testing, The Riddle of Gender (2004), which examines scientists' attempts to define gender and the effect that had on transgender people, and Roots of Steel (2010), about the history of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation steelworks in Sparrows Point, Maryland.[3]

The Scalpel and the Butterfly was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the year's best non-fiction books, and The Riddle of Gender was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.[4]

  1. ^ Tucker, Abigail. "The Riddle of Gender: Masculine and feminine roles don't seem so fixed anymore, as author Deborah Rudacille finds in her study of the world of transgendered people", Baltimore Sun, 9 February 2005.
  2. ^ "Deborah Rudacille Joins English Faculty" Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 31 May 2012.
  3. ^ Skloot, Rebecca. "A balanced account of the battle over animal research and animal rights", Chicago Tribune, 10 September 2000.
  4. ^ "About" Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, deborahrudacille.com, accessed 11 June 2012.