February 2022

Ellie Louson (Michigan State University) published "Performing Authenticity: The making-of documentary in wildlife film's blue-chip Renaissance" in People and Nature, a journal of the British Ecological Society, for a special issue entitled "Nature on screen: The implications of visual media for human-nature relationships" (2021).  The plain-language summary features an illustration by science artist Maki Naro.
Links:
Paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10281
Plain-language summary: https://relationalthinkingblog.com/2021/12/03/plain-language-summary-how-wildlife-films-use-making-of-documentaries-to-showcase-their-skilled-filmmakers-at-work/

Anne Ricculli was recently appointed Curator of the Guinness Collection at the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (a Smithsonian Affiliate). She is in charge of exhibitions, programming, and scholarship on the Museum's holdings in the area of nineteenth-century media technology, mechanical musical instruments, automata, and associated library and ephemera.
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Anita Guerrini (Oregon State/UCSB) will give the Norman and Nancy Benson lecture at the annual (virtual) meeting of the Columbia History of Science Group on March 4. Her talk is titled "Is the Eighteenth Century a Problem?"

Welcome  to Samantha (Sam) Muka, Women's Caucus co-chair for 2022-2024.  Sam is an assistant professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.  Her first book, Oceans Under Glass, will be published this year by the University of Chicago Press.  Many thanks to Jai Virdi, our co-chair for 2020-2022,