A Ph.D. graduate of Harvard, Moran is the author of "Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century" and of "The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents." He has published articles in the Journal of American History, Southern Studies, and Reviews in American History, and recently published pieces in the Journal of American History and the Journal of Southern History on the issues of race and evolution during the Scopes trial. Dr. Moran was awarded the Organization of American Historians' Louis Peltzer Prize in 1996. His latest book is "American Genesis: The Evolution Controversies from Scopes to Creation Science" about the social context of the antievolution impulse in modern America for Oxford University Press.