

Ryan Shapiro holds a BFA in Film from New York University and an MA in Modern American History from American University in Washington, DC . Ryan’s current work explores debates over human and animal experimentation from National Socialist Germany into early Cold War America. His research interests also include the rise of industrialized animal agriculture, scientists as social and political actors, and animals as technologies.
human and animal experimentation; vivisection; industrialized animal agriculture; animals as technologies; Cold War science; biomedicine and bioethics