Michael A. Flannery is Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he also holds adjunct appointments with the departments of history and sociology. Mr. Flannery holds a MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills and a MLS from the University of Kentucky. The author of seven books, his John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic received the Kremers Award in 2001 from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy for outstanding scholarship by an American. He is also an elected lifetime member of the Academie internationale d’histoire de la pharmacie. Outside the field of pharmacy, Mr. Flannery has received the Gottlieb Prize for outstanding scholarship by a librarian from the Medical Library Association in 2002 and the Archivist & Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Publications Award for 2006. Besides writing on a wide range of historical topics in science and medicine, Flannery has published on the history of medical ethics.
An avid student of the history of ideas and science, his current interest is in Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection. He published his most recent book, Alfred Russel Wallace's Theory of Intelligent Evolution, to demonstrate that popular caricatures about the "Science vs Creationism" are inaccurate and unhistorical.. Flannery’s work on Wallace has also appeared in Forbes magazine. His work on the life and legacy of Wallace continues.
Michael A. Flannery is Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he also holds adjunct appointments with the departments of history and sociology. Mr. Flannery holds a MA from California State University, Dominguez Hills and a MLS from the University of Kentucky. The author of seven books, his John Uri Lloyd: The Great American Eclectic received the Kremers Award in 2001 from the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy for outstanding scholarship by an American. He is also an elected lifetime member of the Academie internationale d’histoire de la pharmacie. Outside the field of pharmacy, Mr. Flannery has received the Gottlieb Prize for outstanding scholarship by a librarian from the Medical Library Association in 2002 and the Archivist & Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Publications Award for 2006. Besides writing on a wide range of historical topics in science and medicine, Flannery has published on the history of medical ethics. 
