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Megan Raby is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, having previously been a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, National Museum of American History. Her research focuses on the history of science, particularly environmental history, with an emphasis on transnational connections between science and Latin America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Raby's book, 'American Tropics: Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science' (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), examines the relationship between history and field ecology amidst the expansion of U.S. hegemony in the circum-Caribbean area. This work was awarded the 2019 Philip J. Pauly Prize for the History of Science Society. Currently, she is working on a biography of the influential biologist Marston Bates, which is funded by a 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Raby has authored articles published in journals such as Environmental History and Isis, and she received the Price/Webster Award from the History of Science Society in 2016 for one of her articles.
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