Heather Heying

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  • Evolutionary Biologist
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Heather Heying is an American Evolutionary biology, former professor, and author, who came to national attention following the Evergreen State College protests in 2017. She has been associated with the informal group known as the intellectual dark web[1] and testified at the US Department of Justice forum on Free Speech on College Campuses in 2018.[2][3]

Career

Until 2017, Heying was a professor of biology at Evergreen State College in Washington (state). Her doctoral research focused on the evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of Mantella laevigata, a Madagascan poison frog.[4] In addition to papers in the reproductive evolutionary adpatations of frogs, Heying has also published a popular work describing her graduate student research in Madagascar, Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar (2002).[5][6]

Evergreen State College Protests

In July 2017, following a year of student protests at Evergreen State College, which disrupted the campus, including one altercation between protesters and Heying's husband and fellow professor of biology at Evergreen, Bret Weinstein, the pair brought a lawsuit against the college, alleging that the president of the college had not asked the campus police to protect the targets of student protesters.[7][8][9][10] A settlement was reached in September 2017, in which both Heying and Weinstein resigned, and received $250,000 each, having sought a total of $3.8 million in damages.[10]

Post-Evergreen

Following her resignation, Heying has written articles and opinion pieces related to evolution and cultural politics for journals and newspapers such as The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.[11][12] She co-hosts a weekly podcast, the Darkhorse Podcast, with her husband, Bret Weinstein.[13]

Heying was a 2019-2020 James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, a fellowship which continued for the 2020-2021 year.[14][15] With Weinstein, they presented a theory on the evolutionary adaptation of consciousness on 29 April 2020 .[16]

On January 29, 2021 Heying appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher along with Weinstein, presenting the "Lab Leak" hypothesis around the origins of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2|SARS-CoV-2.[17]

Publications

References

  1. Weiss, Bari (8 May 2018). "Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web". newyorktimes.com. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. MacDonald, Heather (17 September 2018). "Justice Department Forum on Free Speech in Higher Education". manhattan-institute.org. Retrieved 13 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Heather Heying at the US Department of Justice forum on Free Speech on College Campuses". YouTube. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. {{Cite book|last=Heying|first=Heather E.|title=The evolutionary ecology and sexual selection of a Madagascan poison frog (Mantella laevigata)|year=2001}
  5. Heying, Heather E. (3 Aug 2002). "Excerpt: The lady and the lemur". The Globe and Mail. 3 Aug 2002: D6 – via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail.
  6. "A skillful example of notes from the field: lively, discerning, and full of an ingrained enthusiasm for science". Kirkus Reviews. 1 May 2002. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Volokh, Eugene (26 May 2017). "'Professor told he's not safe on campus after college protests' at Evergreen State College (Washington)". The Washington Post. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. Weinstein, Bret (30 May 2017). "The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next Whites were asked to leave for a 'Day of Absence.' I objected. Then 50 yelling students crashed my class". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Bradford, Richardson (25 May 2017). "Students berate professor who refused to participate in no-whites 'Day of Absence'". Washington Times. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Abspegman (16 September 2017). "Evergreen settles with Weinstein, professor at the center of campus protests". The Olympian. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. Heying, Heather (30 April 2018). "Nature is Risky. That's Why Students Need It". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. Heying, Heather E. (2018-11-10). "Exposing the Madness of Grievance Studies". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 65.
  13. "Bret Weinstein | DarkHorse Podcast". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
  14. "The James Madison Program announces 2019–20 fellows". Princeton University. 2019-04-12. Retrieved 2020-07-19.
  15. "Current Visiting Fellows | James Madison Program". jmp.princeton.edu.
  16. "Culture vs. Consciousness: A Core Human Tension". princeton.edu. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. "Bill Maher Talks Mutating Viruses and a Changing Climate on "Real Time"". InsideHook.com. Retrieved 13 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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