Megan Raby is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A historian of science and environment, her work emphasizes the transnational connections of science in the US and Latin America in the twentieth century.
Her book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) explores the relationship between the history of field ecology, the expansion of U.S. hegemony in the circum-Caribbean during the 20th century, and the emergence of the modern concept of biodiversity. American Tropics was awarded the 2019 Philip J. Pauly Prize by the History of Science Society. Megan Raby is also the author of articles appearing in journals including Environmental History and Isis; the latter was awarded the History of Science Society’s 2016 Price/Webster Award for best article.
Professor Raby earned her Ph.D. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of American History.
Interviews and Talks:
Teaching Global Environmental History (Not Even Past)
Working Naturalist: Episodes in the Life of Marston Bates, Life Scientist for Hire (Science History Institute)
Climate and Environmental History in Context (15 Minute History)
The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (15 Minute History)
Edge Effects
New Books Network
Tropilunch, UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program
History of Science Society
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