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Harriet Ritvo

Room
E51-284
Phone
617-253-6960
Email
hnritvo@mit.edu
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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.