Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2009) was awarded the 2009 Susan E. Abrams Prize in History of Science.
Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities, 1800-1900 (University of Chicago Press, 1994).
With Thomas Broman (eds.), Science and Civil Society (Osiris, Volume 17) (University of Chicago Press, 2002).