Nolan Heie 

Adjunct Professor
Modern European Intellectual History

E-mail: heie@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000, ext: 74351
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson Hall 107

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Education

PhD, Queen's University at Kingston
MA., University of Toronto
Honours BA., University of Alberta  

About

Nolan Heie studies the academic and popular science works of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), and their place within the free-thought movement in Germany around the turn of the century. 

Courses Taught

"Modern European Thought and Culture" HIST 323
"Intellectual Origins of the Contemporary West" HIST 121

Publications

"Ernst Haeckel and the Morphology of Ethics." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 15 (2004). 1-27.

Conference Papers

"‘A Garland of Wonderful Legends': Ernst Haeckel's Discovery of Eden in Ceylon." Tracing the Temporal: New Trajectories in Cultural and Intellectual History Conference. Cornell University at Ithaca. 22 April 2006.

"‘Nature as Artist?': Ernst Haeckel's Search for a Monistic Theory of Aesthetics." Queen's History Department Seminar Series. Queen's University at Kingston. 6 October 2005.

"‘Nature as Artist?': Ernst Haeckel's Aesthetic Theory and the Religion of the Future." Queen's-McGill Graduate Student Conference. Queen's University at Kingston. 18-19 March 2005.

"‘Even Simply Standing Still is a Step Backward': The Hopes and Anxieties of Ernst Haeckel's Liberal Social Darwinism (1860-1919)." The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Studies Group Seminar Series. Queen's University at Kingston. 18 January 2005.

"The Morphology of Evolutionary Ethics in the Popular Scientific Writings of Ernst Haeckel." Canadian Historical Association Conference. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. 3-6 June 2004.

"Ernst Haeckel in Ceylon: Geography, Race, and Modern European Identity." New Frontiers in History Graduate Student Conference. York University, Toronto. 26-28 February 2004.

"W. L. Mackenzie King in the Age of Radio and Newsreel." Mackenzie King: Contested Legacy Conference.  Queen's University at Kingston. 10 November 2001.