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STS
Program in Science,
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Harriet Ritvo
Professor Ritvo received her B.A. (1968) and her Ph.D. (1975) from
Harvard University; she also studied at the Cambridge University.
Her research interests include environmental history, British
cultural history, history of human-animal relations, and the
history of natural history. Her research has been supported by the
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and the National Humanities Center; she has also received a Whiting
Writer's Award.
She is the author of The Platypus and the Mermaid, and Other
Figments of the Classifying Imagination (1997), and of The Animal
Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age
(1987). Professor Ritvo is currently a senior fellow at the
National Humanities Center.
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