Biographical Information:
Ms. Wan's primary interests are public interest and Native American
law. She spent the last summer working for Alaska Legal Services
in Nome, Alaska, and plans to work in Fairbanks this summer. Her
long term goal is to work with Alaska Natives in the Fairbanks
area. At Chicago-Kent, she was involved in with Kent Justice Foundation
and the Chicago-Kent
Environmental Law Society.
Prior to coming to Chicago-Kent, Andrea was in the history program
at the University of Chicago where she studied History of Science.
Her masters work was in the involvement of prominent Victorian
era scientists in the parapsychology and spiritualism movement.
Ms. Wan served as a clerk for Judge Richard Savell of the
Alaska Superior Court in Fairbanks and passed the Maine bar in 2006.
Writings and Presentations:
Fall 1998. "The Science of Survival: Sir Oliver Lodge and
Psychical Research." A paper presented at the 1998 meeting
of the History of Science Society.
Spring 1998. "Biometry, Mendelism, and Equilibrium: Four
Discoveries of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle." A talk at the
1998 Midwest Junto for the History of Science and Technology.
Spring 1998. "Reaching Equilibrium: The Meaning of Biometric
and Mendelian Discoveries of the Hardy-Weinberg Principle."
A talk at the 1998 Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology
at Johns Hopkins University.
Spring 1997. Vincent Wan with Andrea Williams. "Inhibition
in the neural network models of the 1920s and 1930s." (poster)
Presented at the International Society for the History of the
Neurosciences / European Club for the History of Neurology joint
meeting at Leiden, Netherlands.
1996. "Emanuel Swedenborg as a Protospiritualist."
ACD: The Journal of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society. 7: 127-143.
Spring 1996. "Evidence for the Unseen: Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, Spiritualism, and the Quest for a Scientific Religion."
B.A. thesis, College of Saint Benedict / Saint John’s University.
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