Welcome the new Co-Chair!

A round of applause for Anita Guerrini, who begins her tenure as co-chair of the HSS Women's Caucus! We are immensely grateful to outgoing co-chair Alix Cooper for her work and leadership. 

Professor Guerrini is a historian of science and medicine, recently retired as Horning Professor in the Humanities at Oregon State University. Her work covers wide-ranging interests, including on anatomy, natural history, the environment, ecological restoration, and the history of food. Her book, The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris (University of Chicago Press, 2015), received the 2018 HSS Pfizer Prize. She has also published Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), Natural History and the New World (American Philosophical Society), and co-edited with Patricia Fumerton Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 (Ashgate, 2010), among many other works during her illustrious career. 

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