Group Reports

A Mammoth’s Medieval History

Group Report By: Brittany Jette, Giahuy Lenguyen, Kaustubh Pandit, Rachael Zmich   Shapiro, Beth. How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction. Princeton University Press. Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist who teaches at the University of California. She is a professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and specializes in… Read more A Mammoth’s Medieval History

Human Companions: The Shift From Wildlife to Domestication

Human Companions: The Shift From Wildlife to Domestication   Twardek, William & Peiman, Kathryn & Gallagher, Austin & Cooke, Steven. (2017). Fido, Fluffy, and wildlife conservation: The environmental consequences of domesticated animals. Environmental Reviews. 25. 10.1139/er-2016-0111.   William Twardek is a very experienced individual in the field of animal research, with a concentration in ocean… Read more Human Companions: The Shift From Wildlife to Domestication

The Reciprocity of Human-Animal Influence Throughout History

Written by: Achu Balasubramanian, Saniya Syeda, Mackenzie Warren, Claire Lungwitz Ritvo, Harriet. “Animal Planet.” Environmental History, vol. 9, no. 2, 2004, pp. 204–220., doi:10.2307/3986084. Compared to: Singer, P. 1975. Animal Liberation. HarperCollins. [Preface and Chapter 1: All Animals Are Equal] The author of Animal Planet, Dr. Harriet Ritvo, is a historian who studies and teaches courses… Read more The Reciprocity of Human-Animal Influence Throughout History

The Agricultural Yielding by Cows

Group Vivisection: Brittany Jette, Rachael Zmich, Group Report 3   Orland, Barbara. “Turbo-Cows: Producing a Competitive Animal in the Nineteenth and EarlyTwentieth Centuries.” Industrializing Organisms: Introducing Evolutionary History, Routledge, 2004, pp. 167–184.   Dr. Barbara Orland is a historian of science and technology and professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Based on her… Read more The Agricultural Yielding by Cows

“Blut und Boden”

Saraiva, Tiago. “Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism.” MIT Press Scholarship, The MIT Press, 10 May 2017, mitpress.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035033.001.0001/upso-9780262035033.   About the Author: Tiago Saraiva is an assistant professor at Drexel University, with a PhD in the History of Science from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Materials… Read more “Blut und Boden”

AN ANALYSIS OF THE USAGE OF MICE IN ANIMAL RESEARCH

Written by: Achu Balasubramanian, Saniya Syeda, Mackenzie Warren, Claire Lungwitz Rader, Karen Ann. “Why Mice?” Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 1–24. Compared to: DeGrazia, David. Animal Rights: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2002. The author of Making Mice, Dr. Karen Rader, is a historian who… Read more AN ANALYSIS OF THE USAGE OF MICE IN ANIMAL RESEARCH

The Modernization of Cuban Agriculture and Politics

Citation: Funes Monzote, Reinaldo. (2016). The Rise and Fall of Dairy Cows in Socialist Cuba. Global Environment. 9. 342-375. 10.3197/ge.2016.090203.   In The Rise and Fall of Dairy Cows in Socialist Cuba, a comprehensive historical account of the environmental history of Cuba and the shift in the agricultural industry from cattle raising for meat consumption… Read more The Modernization of Cuban Agriculture and Politics

Zoos: Educational or Destructive.

Group Report 1: Brittany Jette, Giahuy Lenguyen, Kaustubh Pandit, Rachael Zmich   Parker, Ian. “Killing Animals at the Zoo.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2017, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/16/killing-animals-at-the-zoo.   Ian Parker contributed to his first article at the The New Yorker in 1994 and his first solo piece in 2000. He has been a… Read more Zoos: Educational or Destructive.