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vii Acknowledgments This book has its origins in two Indiana University (IU) graduate courses, one taught by Elin K. Jacob in the School of Library and Information Science (now the Department of Information and Library Science in the School of Informatics and Computing), and one taught by Judith A. Allen in the Department of Gender Studies. Jacob’s course “The Organization and Representation of Knowledge and Information” sparked my abiding engagement with the historical and contemporary theories and practices of classification. Allen’s spring 2003 course “Kinsey’s Women: Genealogies and Legacies” traced the history of sex research related to women in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. I sketched my earliest ideas on the relationship between Kinsey’s entomology and sexuality research in the seminar paper for the course. Allen became my adviser and mentor, and as a result of her encouragement in my research on Kinsey, I took on the role of coordinating the Women’s Sexualities: Historical, International, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference held at IU in the fall of 2003. There I was introduced to an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars passionate about the study of sexuality, and I knew that I wanted to become a long-term part of that research community. My interests in the histories of classification, sexuality, and the life and human sciences have now coalesced into this book. I thank Colin R. Johnson, Michael McGerr, Stephanie A. Sanders, and Eric Sandweiss at Indiana University for their insights and advice. Eric Sandweiss, as editor of the Indiana Magazine of History, helped me craft my first academic article on Kinsey’s marriage course over good conversations at the IMH offices and Soma Coffee House. It appears as part of chapter three. Whether we were in Bloomington or Warsaw, talking in person or online, Colin R. Johnson has continually encouraged me to think ever more creatively about gender and sexuality . I am grateful to Peter Hegarty for his insights into gall wasps, statistics, and Lewis Terman’s impact on Kinsey. Robin C. Henry deserves special thanks for helping me think through Kinsey’s ideas about race. I had thoughtful discussions with Ronald Ladouceur about Kinsey’s high school biology textbooks. Jared Richman provided critical feedback on the introduction and second chapter . Audra J. Wolfe provided high-quality guidance through the acquisitions process and excellent assistance with chapter six and the conclusion. For many good conversations I have had about Kinsey’s life and work, I thank Howard H. Chiang, Rebecca L. Davis, Stephen Garton, Lynn K. Gorchov, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., Robert E. Kohler, Agnieszka Kościańska, Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Joshua P. Levens, Donald W. Maxwell, Joanne Meyerowitz, Clark A. Pomer- leau, Jeremy Rapport, Miriam G. Reumann, and David Serlin. Thanks are also due to the two anonymous reviewers for their comments and thoughts on an earlier version of the manuscript. Librarians and archivists at the following institutions were indispensable to completing this book: American Museum of Natural History Library; American Philosophical Society Library; Archives of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard University; Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University; Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley; Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan; Center for the Study of History and Memory at IU; Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota; Harvard University Archives; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Archives; Indiana University Archives; Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections at IU; Lilly Library at IU; and Technische Universität Darmstadt. This book has benefited especially from years of assistance from Liana Zhou, Shawn C. Wilson, and Catherine Johnson-Roehr at the Kinsey Institute. Amberle Sherman and Alex Wolfe of the University of Pittsburgh Press skillfully guided this book through the publication process. I am grateful to the following entities for financial support: Department of History, Indiana University; College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University; Department of History, Indiana State University; Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; Library Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society; Department of Feminist and Gender Studies, Colorado College; Department of History, Colorado College; Technische Universität Darmstadt; and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Special thanks are due to Mikael Hård and Petra Gehring, the chairs of the Graduiertenkolleg Topologie der Technik at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, for accepting me as a postdoctoral fellow and thus providing me with the financial support and the time that I needed to finish this book. I have had the good fortune to present parts of...

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