Anita Guerrini

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Anita Guerrini

Emeritus Appointment
School of History, Philosophy & Religion

Corvallis, OR
United States

Curriculum Vitae
Research/Career Interests

https://anitaguerrini.com/

Books

The Courtiers' Anatomists
Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

(University of Chicago Press, 2015)

The Courtiers' Anatomists

Ballads and Broadsides

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain,
1500-1800

(Ashgate, 2010)

(co-editor with Patricia Fumerton
and Kris McAbee)

Natural History and the New World, 1524‑1770:
An Annotated Bibliography
.
(American Philosophical Society, 1986;
second edition (revised), 2002)
Natural History and the New World
Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment:
The Life and Times of George Cheyne

(University of Oklahoma Press, 2000)

Experimenting with Humans and Animals:
From Galen to Animal Rights

(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)

Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Selected Recent Articles

  • “Duverney’s Skeletons,” Isis, 94:4 (December 2003), 577-603.
  • “Anatomists and Entrepreneurs in Early Eighteenth-Century London,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 59:2 (April 2004), 219-39.
  • “Alexander Monro primus and the Moral Theatre of Anatomy,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 47:1 (spring 2006), 1-18.
  • “Theatrical Anatomy: Duverney in Paris, 1670-1720,” Endeavour 33 (March 2009), 7-11.
  • “The Trouble with Plovers,” in New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, eds. Jozef Keulartz, Martin Drenthen, and James D. Proctor (Springer, 2009), 75-89.
  • “Informing Ecological Restoration in a Coastal Environment,” with Jenifer E. Dugan in Restoration and History, ed. Marcus Hall (Routledge, 2010), 131-42.
  • “Advertising Monstrosity: Broadsides and Human Exhibition in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain,” in Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800, ed. Patricia Fumerton, Anita Guerrini, and Kris McAbee (Ashgate, 2010).
  • “The King’s Animals and the King’s Books: The Illustrations for the Paris Academy’s Histoire des animaux,” Annals of Science 67:3 (July 2010), 383-404.
  • Roast Beef and . . . Salad?”  History Today (February 2011), 36-43.

 

Education

Ph.D. Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science)

Professional Affiliations

American Historical Association, History of Science Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, American Society for Environmental History, Ecological Society of America

Honors and Awards

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Corresponding Member, International Academy for the History of Science