Occupation Historian, author Name Harriet Ritvo | Role Historian | |
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Born 1946 (age 68–69) Cambridge, Massachusetts Alma mater Harvard University(A.B)(Ph.D.) Education Harvard University (1975), Girton College, Cambridge Awards Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Animal Estate, Noble Cows and Hybrid Ze, The Dawn of Green: Manchest, The Platypus and the M, An English Arcadia: Landscap | ||
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Harriet Nancy Ritvo (born 1946) is an American historian who specializes in British history, particularly environmental history and the history of natural history. Ritvo is the Arthur J. Connor Professor of History at MIT and a member of the Program in Science, Technology and Society, and she was the head of MIT's History Faculty from 1999-2006.
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Early life
Harriet Ritvo was born in 1946 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and received her A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She also studied at Girton College at Cambridge University.
Career
She has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall at Cambridge University, as well as at Balliol College at Oxford University.
Publications
Ritvo has published books on the history of British scientific classification of animals and of the roles of animals in Victorian culture.
Ritvo is the author of the following books:
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Ritvo was a co-editor of:
Periodicals
Ritvo has written articles and reviews on British cultural history and environmental history in such periodicals as The London Review of Books, Science, Daedalus, The American Scholar, Technology Review, and The New York Review of Books, as well as scholarly journals in several fields.
Recognition
Ritvo received a Whiting Award in 1990 following her first book, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987).