Ph.D.

A.B.



2005-
2002-3
1999

1990
1990
1990
1989
1989
1985-86
1984
1982
1969-74
1968-69

Academic

1995-
1980-95
1979-80
1974-75
1971-75

Administrative

1.
1992-95
1980-81
1979-80

1977-79
1976-79

1975-76

Other

2002-3

2001-

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2000

3.

1996-
1995

1995-

1992-
1991-
1989-90
1987-

1986-2003
1985-
1985
1984-85
1984-85
1984,81
1983,84,87,89
1980
1977-80
1976-77

Books

Articles

Other Essays and Reviews

Education

Harvard University, 1975
Girton College, Cambridge University, 1968-69
Harvard University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1968

Fellowships and Awards

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Senior Fellowship, National Humanities Center
Visiting Scholar, Humanities Research Institute,
University of California at Irvine
Whiting Writers' Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellowship, National Humanities Center
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, Cambridge University
Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center
Visiting Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art
Old Dominion Fellowship (M.I.T.)
Graduate Prize Fellowship (Ford Foundation)
Isobel Briggs Traveling Fellowship

Professional Experience

Arthur J. Conner Professor of History, MIT
Assistant to Full Professor, MIT
Lecturer, Humanities Department, MIT
Lecturer in English, University of Massachusetts,Boston
Teaching Fellow in History and Literature and in
English, Harvard University

Head, History Faculty, MIT
Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, MIT
Assistant Director, Writing Program, MIT
Assistant to the Dean, School of Humanities and Social Science, MIT
Editor, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Staff Associate for Arts and Humanities, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Research,
Boston University


Marsh Book Prize Committee, American Society for Environmental History
Editorial Board, Environmental History

Series Editor, Animals, History, Culture Series, Johns Hopkins University Press

Consultant, The Coolidge Chronicles, Interlock Media

Editorial Board, Encounters Series, Manchester University Press

Editorial Board, Animals and Society
Leader, Summer Seminar for Liberal Arts College Faculty ("Ordering Nature"),National Humanities Center
Graduate Faculty, Center for Animals and Society, Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine
Editorial Board, Victorian Studies
Editorial Board, Victorian Literature and Culture
Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Reader, Harvard University Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Iowa Press, Routledge, Duke University Press, Rutgers University Press, University of California Press, Columbia University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Yale University Press, University of Michigan Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press
Editorial Board, Anthrozoos
Board of Incorporators, Harvard Magazine
Review Panelist, Fellowships Division, NEH
Editorial Consultant, White House Historical Association
Book Review Editor, Science, Technology, and Human Values
Review Panelist, Research Division, NEH
Review Panelist, General Programs Division, NEH
Consultant, WGBH-TV
National Humanities Faculty
Consultant, National Humanities Center

Publications

The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination, Harvard University Press, 1997. New York Times Notable Book of 1997. British Council Prize in the Humanities (Honorable Mention) for 1998.

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, Harvard University Press, 1987; Penguin Books, 1990. Japanese translation, 2001.

(editor), Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

(co-editor with Jonathan Arac), The Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Imperialism, Exoticism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991; Duke University Press, 1995.

“Animal Planet,” Environmental History, 2004.
“Our Animal Cousins,” differences, 2004.
“Ordering Creation, or Maybe Not,” Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830 1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer, ed. Helen Small, Oxford University Press, 2003.
“Varieties of Taxonomic Experience,” Spaces of Classification, ed. Ursula Klein, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2003.
“The News from the Hills: Environmental Reporting in Victorian Periodicals,” Culture and Science in Nineteenth-Century Media, eds. Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth. Ashgate, 2004.
“The Natural World,” in The Victorian Vision: Inventing New Britain, ed. John MacKenzie. V and A Publications, 2001.
“Understanding Audiences and Misunderstanding Audiences: Some Publics for Science,” Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, ed. Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth, MIT Press, 2004.
“The Sincerest Form of Flattery,” Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture, ed. William Jordan and Mary Henninger-Voss. University of Rochester Press, 2003.
“Animal Consciousness: Some Historical Perspective,” American Zoologist, 2000.
“Science as Literature, Science as Text,” Journal of Victorian Culture, 2000.
“The Roast Beef of Old England,” in Mad Cows and Modernity: Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Crisis of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, ed. Iain McCalman. Humanities Research Centre (Canberra), 1998.
"Our Animal Environment," in Culture, Landscape and Environment: The Linacre Lectures, ed. Kate Flint and Howard Morphy, Oxford University Press, 2000.
"Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science," Contexts of Victorian Science, ed. Bernard Lightman, University of Chicago Press, 1997.
"Border Trouble: Shifting the Line between People and Other Animals," Social Research, Fall 1995; reprinted in Humans and Other Animals, ed. Arien Mack, Ohio State University Press, 1999; reprinted in shortened form as "Dysfunctional Families: People and Other Animals" in Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes, List Visual Arts Center (MIT), 1995.
"Barring the Cross: Miscegenation and Purity in 18th and 19th-Century Britain," in Human, All Too Human, ed. Diana Fuss, Routledge, 1995.
"Classification and Continuity in The Origin of Species," in Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species, ed. David Amigoni and Jeff Wallace, Manchester University Press, 1995.
"Race, Breed, and Myths of Origin: Chillingham Cattle as Ancient Britons," Representations, Summer 1992.
"The Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in 18th and 19th-Century Britain," Huntington Library Quarterly, Summer 1992.
"Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Complicated Attitudes and Competing Categories," Animals and Society, ed. James Serpell and Aubrey Manning, Routledge, 1994.
"Possessing Mother Nature: Genetic Capital in 18th-Century Britain," in Early Modern Conceptions of Property, ed. Susan Staves and John Brewer, Routledge, 1994.
"Amateur Mermaids and Professional Scientists: Beating the Bounds in 19th-Century Britain," Victorian Literature and Culture, 1991.
"The Natural Order: Constructing the Collections of Victorian Zoos," New Worlds, New Animals, ed. William Deiss, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
"New Presbyter or Old Priest: Reconsidering Zoological Taxonomy in Britain, 1750-1840," History of the Human Sciences, Summer 1990; reprinted as "Zoological Taxonomy and Real Life" in Realism and Representation: Science, Literature, Culture, ed. George Levine, University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
"The Power of the Word: Scientific Nomenclature and the Spread of Empire," Victorian Newsletter, Spring 1990.
"The Animal Connection," Humans, Animals, and Machines: Boundaries and Projections, ed. James Sheehan and Morton Sosna, University of California Press, 1991.
"Sex and the Single Animal," Grand Street, Spring 1988.
"The Emergence of Modern Petkeeping," Anthrozoos, Winter 1987; reprinted in Animals and People Sharing the World, ed. Andrew Rowan, University Press of New England, 1988.
"Pride and Pedigree: The Evolution of the Victorian Dog Fancy," Victorian Studies, Winter 1986.
"Animal Pleasures: Popular Zoology in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England," Harvard Library Bulletin, Summer 1985.
"Learning from Animals: Natural History for Children in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century," Children's Literature, 1985.
"Plus Ca Change: Antivivisection Then and Now," Science, Technology, and Human Values, Spring 1984; reprinted in BioScience, November 1984.
(co-author) "The Periodical Press in Eighteenth-Century English and French Society: A Cross-Cultural Approach, Comparative Studies in Society and History, June 1981. French translation in Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Avril-Juin 1985.
"Gothic Revival Architecture in England and America: A Case Study in Public Symbolism," in Allegory, Myth, and Symbol, Harvard University Press, 1981.

Review of Industrializing Organisms, ed. Susan R. Schrepfer, forthcoming in Environmental History.
“Narratives of Nature,” Victorian Studies, 2005.
“Discipline and Indiscipline,” Environmental History, 2005.
“History of science lite,” (Review of Clara Pinto-Correia, Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad Strange Tale of the Dodo), Endeavour, 2004.
Review of Michael Taggart, Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply, Victorian Studies, 2004.
Review of Liliane Bodson, ed., Regards Croisés de l’histoire et des science naturelles sur le loup, la chouette, le crapaud dans la tradition occidentale, Anthrozoos, 2004.
"The Social History of Dogs in Southern Africa: Some Comments," South African Journal of History, 2004.

“Abraham Dee Bartlett,” “James Cossar Ewart,” “Stamford Raffles,” and “William Swainson,” forthcoming in Bernard Lightman, ed., Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists (Thoemmes Press).
“Fighting for Thirlmere--the Roots of Environmentalism,” Science, June 6, 2003.
Review of Elizabeth Hanson, Animal Attractions, American Scientist, March-April 2003.
“Eye of the Storm,” (review of Janet Browne, Darwin: The Power of Place), Boston Globe, October 20, 2002.
Review of Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Beasts, British Journal of the History of Science, September 2002.
“History and ‘Animal Studies,’” Society and Animals, December 2002.
“Destroyers and Preservers: Big Game in the Victorian Empire,” History Today, January 2002.
Review of Thomas Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora, American Historical Review, 2002.
Review of Silvio Bedini, The Pope’s Elephant, Isis, 2001.
“Seeds that never grew in Sweden” (Review of Lisbeth Koerner, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation), Nature, April 13, 2000.
“Defining Moments” (Review of Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Sorting Things Out), New Scientist, January 8, 2000.
Review of Barbara Gates, Kindred Nature, Albion, 2000.
“Mainstreaming Monsters” (Review of Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750 and Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet), Nature, 1999.
Review of Robert Malcolmson and Stephanos Mastoris, The English Pig: A History, Victorian Studies, 2000.
“My Back Pages,” Boston Globe, April 18, 1999.
Review of Joanna Swabe, Animals, Disease and Human Society: Human-animal relations and the rise of veterinary medicine, Anthrozoos, 1999.
Review of Ann Datta, et al., Animals and the Law, forthcoming in British Journal of the History of Science.
Review of Patricia Morison, J. T. Wilson and the Fraternity of Duckmaloi, Social History of Medicine, 1999.
“Lost Generations,” Forbes ASAP, November 30, 1998.
“Mad Cow Mysteries,” American Scholar, Spring 1998. Reprinted in The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating (Blackwell 2005), ed. James L. Watson and Melissa Caldwell.
“Who Owns History?” (Review of Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History, Gary B. Nash and Ross E. Dunn, History on Trial, David Harlan, The Degradation of American History, and Eric Hobsbawm, On History), Boston Globe, November 30, 1997.
"A Public Scientist" (Review of Adrian Desmond, Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest), Science, October 31, 1997.
"Hugh Edwin Strickland," New Dictionary of National Bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
Review of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Times Literary Supplement, May 19, 1995.
Review of Nicolaas A. Rupke, Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist, Victorian Studies, Winter 1996.
Review of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Hidden Life of Dogs; Doris Lessing, Particularly Cats...and Rufus; and Juliet Clutton-Brock, Cats: Ancient and Modern, New York Review of Books, January 13, 1994.
Review of A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Man among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory, American Historical Review, February 1995.
Review of Londa Schiebinger, Nature's Body, William and Mary Quarterly, 1995.
Review of Martin Rudwick, Scenes From Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World, Victorian Studies, Spring 1994.
Review of Marie Helene Huet, Monstrous Imagination, New Republic, December 27, 1993.
"Beaverbrook: A Power Behind the Scenes" (Review of Lord Beaverbrook: A Life), Boston Globe, January 10, 1993.
"Their Earliest Hour," (Review of Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837), New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1992.
Review of Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, Victorian Studies, Summer 1993.
Review of Lise Wilkinson, Animals and Disease: An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine, Social History of Medicine, 1993.
"Toward a More Peaceable Kingdom," Technology Review, April 1992.
Review of Nick Fiddes, Meat: A Natural Symbol, forthcoming in Comparative Studies in Society and History.
Review of Keith Tester, Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights, American Historical Review, October 1992.
"Technology as Superiority," Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 1992. (Review of Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance)
Review of Regenia Gagnier, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832-1920, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 1992.
"Unnatural History," Threepenny Review, December 1990.
Review of R. G. Willis, ed., Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World, Anthrozoos, Winter 1991.
"Poor Darwin," London Review of Books, July 26, 1990. (Review of John Bowlby, Charles Darwin: A New Biography)
"Before Darwin," London Review of Books, May 24, 1990. (Review of Adrian Desmond, The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine and Reform in Radical London)
Review of George Levine, Darwin and the Novelists, Novel, Fall, 1990.
"The Mismeasure of Women," Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1989-90. (Review of Cynthia Eagle Russett, Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood and Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science)
Review of Susan Sheets-Pyenson, Cathedrals of Science: The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums during the Late Nineteenth Century and Lynn Merrill, The Romance of Victorian Natural History, Victorian Studies, Spring, 1990.
Review of John M. MacKenzie, The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism, American Historical Review, December, 1990.
"How the Middle Class Got That Way," New York Times Book Review, February 26, 1989. (Review of F. M. L. Thompson, The Rise of Respectable Society 1820-1900)
"With Friends Like These," The Nation, December 12, 1988. (Review of Susan Sperling, Animal Liberators)
"Animals in Love," Psychology Today, September 1988. (Review of Mark Jerome Walters, The Dance of Life: Courtship in the Animal Kingdom)
Review of Nicholas Russell, Like Engend'ring Like: Heredity and Animal Breeding in Early Modern England, Technology and Culture, April 1988.
"What Remains," Grand Street, Summer 1988. (Review of Roger Lewin, Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins)
"Innocent Amusements," New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1988. (Review of John Sedgwick, The Peaceable Kingdom)
"Reading the Rocks," Science, Technology and Human Values, Spring 1987. (Review of Martin Rudnick, The Great Devonian Controversy)
"The Moral Instruction of Animals," Psychology Today, February 1987. (Review of Vicki Hearne, Adam's Task: Calling Animals By Name)
"Our Pets, Our Pork Chops," New York Times Book Review, October 26, 1986. (Review of James Serpell, In the Company of Animals)
"Up the Ivory Tower," Psychology Today, January 1986. (Review of Barbara Solomon, In the Company of Educated Women)
"Animal Problems," Science, Technology and Human Values, Summer 1985. (Review of Harlan B. Miller and William B. Williams, eds., Ethics and Animals)
"A Life Lived in Reverse," New York Times Book Review, May 5, 1985. (Review of C. H. Sisson, Christopher Homm)
"Arguing About Animals," BioScience, April 1985. (Review of Miller and Williams, Ethics and Animals and Andrew Rowan, Of Mice, Models, and Men)
"Coming to Grips With Nature," Yale Review, Spring 1984. (Review of Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World)
Reviews and essays in Threepenny Review, Harvard Magazine, New Leader, Humanities Report, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Travel and Leisure, and Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.