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|name = Harriet Ritvo |image = Harriet Ritvo delivering a talk at Yale.jpg |caption = Ritvo delivering a talk at Yale University |birth_date = |birth_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = Historian, author |main_interests = British cultural history Environmental history History of natural history |alma_mater = Harvard University(A.B)(Ph.D.)}}Harriet 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.[1] BiographyEarly lifeHarriet 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. CareerShe has been a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall at Cambridge University, as well as at Balliol College at Oxford University. PublicationsRitvo has published books on the history of British scientific classification of animals and of the roles of animals in Victorian culture.[2] Ritvo is the author of the following books:
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PeriodicalsRitvo 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. RecognitionRitvo received a Whiting Award in 1990 following her first book, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age (1987). Notes1. ^MIT History Department Faculty biography: Harriet Ritvo http://web.mit.edu/hnritvo/www/ritvo.htm 2. ^Ritvo Receives Prestigious Award, TechTalk, November 7, 1990, MIT News Office (accessed March 28, 2007) External links
10 : Historians of science|Historians of the British Isles|Environmental historians|Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty|1946 births|Living people|Guggenheim Fellows|Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts|Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge|Harvard University alumni |
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