Alice Dreger, Managing Editor for Heterodox Academy, earned her Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from Indiana University. She is known variously for her hard-hitting investigative history and journalism, her advocacy for the rights of people born with unusual anatomies, and her promotion of First Amendment rights, particularly free speech and press freedoms. Dreger is a Guggenheim Fellow, an award-winning writer and educator, and was the recipient of Heterodox Academy’s inaugural Courage Award. In 2024, FIRE named her among its “25 Faces of Free Speech."
Now editor of HxA's intellectual magazine "inquisitive," Dreger’s bylines include the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Guardian, WIRED, Slate, the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Aeon Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, New Statesman, Quillette, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. Her books have been published by Penguin Press, Harvard University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and Amazon Kindle Singles, among others.
Dreger’s best known work is "Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice," which argues that the pursuit of evidence is the most important ethical imperative of our time. Published by Penguin Press, the book received praise in The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Forbes, New York Magazine, Human Nature, and Salon. "Galileo’s Middle Finger" was also named “Editor’s Choice” by The New York Times Book Review and recommended by Steve Pinker, Dan Savage, Jared Diamond, and E.O. Wilson, among many others.
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