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Career

Teaching

From 1967 to 1969, He was an assistant professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. During this period, the students and faculty at UC Berkeley were largely opposed to the ongoing Vietnam War, and Dawkins became involved in the anti-war demonstrations and activities. He returned to the University of Oxford in 1970 as a lecturer. In 1990, he became a reader in zoology. In 1995, he was appointed Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position that had been endowed by Charles Simonyi with the express intention that the holder "be expected to make important contributions to the public understanding of some scientific field", and that its first holder should be Richard Dawkins. He held that professorship from 1995 until 2008.

Since 1970, he has been a fellow of New College, Oxford, and he is now an emeritus fellow. He has delivered many lectures, including the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture (1989), the first Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture (1990), the Michael Faraday Lecture (1991), the T. H. Huxley Memorial Lecture (1992), the Irvine Memorial Lecture (1997), the Tinbergen Lecture (2004), and the Tanner Lectures (2003). In 1991, he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children on Growing Up in the Universe. He also has edited several journals and has acted as an editorial advisor to the Encarta Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Evolution. He is listed as a senior editor and a columnist of the Council for Secular Humanism's Free Inquiry magazine and has been a member of the editorial board of Skeptic magazine since its foundation.

He has sat on judging panels for awards as diverse as the Royal Society's Faraday Award and the British Academy Television Awards, and has been president of the Biological Sciences section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, Balliol College, Oxford, instituted the Dawkins Prize, awarded for "outstanding research into the ecology and behaviour of animals whose welfare and survival may be endangered by human activities". In September 2008, he retired from his professorship, announcing plans to "write a book aimed at youngsters in which he will warn them against believing in 'anti-scientific' fairytales."

In 2011, He joined the professoriate of the New College of the Humanities, a private university in London established by A. C. Grayling, which opened in September 2012.

Publications

• The Selfish Gene. 1976.
• The Extended Phenotype. 1982.
• The Blind Watchmaker. 1986.
• River Out of Eden. 1995.
• Climbing Mount Improbable. 1996.
• Unweaving the Rainbow. 1998.
• A Devil's Chaplain. 2003.
• The Ancestor's Tale. 2004.
• The God Delusion. 2006.
• The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing. 2008.
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. 2009.
• The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True. 2011.
• An Appetite for Wonder. 2013.. First volume of his memoirs.
• Brief Candle in the Dark. 2015.. Second volume of his memoirs.
• Science in the Soul. 2017.
• Outgrowing God. 2019.
• Books Do Furnish a Life. 2021.
• Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution. 2021.

Documentary films

• Nice Guys Finish First (1986)
• The Blind Watchmaker (1987)[210]
• Growing Up in the Universe (1991)
• Break the Science Barrier (1996)
• The Atheism Tapes (2004)
• The Big Question (2005) – Part 3 of the TV series, titled "Why Are We Here?"
• The Root of All Evil? (2006)
• The Enemies of Reason (2007)
• The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008)
• Faith School Menace? (2010)
• Beautiful Minds (April 2012) – BBC4 documentary
• Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)[211]
• The Unbelievers (2013)

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