Making Nature Panel 5: Labor & Expertise
“The price of collecting: sailors and the labor of French natural history in the South Seas, 1800-1840”
Ralph Kingston, Associate Professor of History, Auburn University
““Philosophical Voyages”, natural history collections and scientific knowledge in eighteenth century Brazil: Revisiting the forgotten expedition of Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira” Luis Ceríaco, CIBIO - University of Porto
“The Legacies of Slavery and Natural History in American Science: The LeContes of Georgia and California”
Hunter Price, Associate Professor of History, Western Washington University
“Unsung Heroes: Female Community Scientists”
Ariel Hammond, Director of Research Library & Archives, San Diego Natural History Museum
Moderator: Anna Majeski, Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Natural Exhibition Research Fellow, American Philosophical Society
