Dr. Marcy Norton

Professor

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Biography

Marcy Norton is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching focus on Colonial Latin America, the Atlantic World, and environmental history. Norton is particularly interested in the intersection of cultural history and science, and her scholarship often explores cross-cultural entanglements between humans and other species. She has authored the book 'Tame Wild: People and Animals from 1492' and has received several prestigious awards for her work, including the Bentley World History Prize and the Martínez Prize for her contributions to Mexican history. Her influential research re-evaluates historical narratives surrounding the human-animal relationships and critiques the existing paradigms within the study of the Columbian Exchange. Prior to her position at Penn, she held a faculty position at George Washington University and has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Norton has served on the advisory council of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and is involved in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program at her university.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

— Present

University of Pennsylvania • Philadelphia, PA

Teaches courses on the Atlantic World from 1492 to 1800, focusing on Colonial Latin America, early modern Europe, and Indigenous history.

Awards

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Bentley World History Prize

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Martínez Prize

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Melville Prize

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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