Harriet Ritvo
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Harriet Ritvo is an American historian who specializes in British history, especially 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.[1]
Ritvo has published books on the history of British scientific classification of animals, the roles of animals in Victorian culture, and edited the modern edition of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. She received the Whiting Writers' Award in 1990 following her first book, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987).[2]
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- ^ Harriet Ritvo, MIT History Faculty biography (accessed March 28, 2007)
- ^ Ritvo Receives Prestigious Award, TechTalk, November 7, 1990, MIT News Office (accessed March 28, 2007)
