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281 Mark V. Barrow Jr. is an Associate Professor in the History Department and an affiliated faculty member in the Science and Technology in Society Department at Virginia Tech. His research centers on the historical intersection of natural history, wildlife conservation, and American culture. His first book, A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon (1998), won the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize and the Choice Magazine Outstanding Book Award. His second book is entitled Nature’s Ghost: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (2009). Dorothee Brantz is an Assistant Professor of Transatlantic Urban History and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the TU Berlin. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Free University Berlin; the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.; and the University of Cologne. She has published on the history of slaughterhouses , human-animal relations in the city, and the role of nature in urban space. Peter Edwards is a Professor of Early Modern British Social History at the University of Roehampton, London. His primary research field deals with the role of horses in early modern Western society, especially in Britain, and he has published extensively on the subject. His most recent book is entitled Horse and Man in Early Modern England (2007). He also publishes on agriculture and rural society in early modern Britain and on the logistics of the British Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century. Kelly Enright holds a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University and a master’s in Museum Anthropology from Columbia University. She is the author of Rhinoceros (2008) and America’s Natural Places: Rocky Mountains and Great Plains (2010). Her dissertation examines American images of “jungle” and “rain forest.” Enright has consulted and researched for museums and nonprofits, including the Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. CO N T R I BU TO R S c on t r i b u t or s 282 Oliver Hochadel is a historian of science and currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre d’Estudis d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona working on the history of human-origins research in the late twentieth century. He is the author of a monograph on electricity as a public science in the German enlightenment, Öffentliche Wissenschaft: Elektrizit ät in der deutschen Aufklärung (2003). He coedited, with Ursula Kocher, Lügen und Betrügen: Das Falsche in der Geschichte von der Antike bis zur Moderne (2000); and, with Peter Heering and David Rhees, Playing with Fire: A Cultural History of the Lightning Rod (2009). From 2001 to 2004, he was a member of a research group working on the history of the Schönbrunn Menagerie in Vienna. He also works as a freelance science journalist, serves as coeditor of the Austrian science magazine heureka!, and is cofounder of a postgraduate program in science communications in Vienna. Uwe Lübken is a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich and is currently finishing a book project on the history of flooding on the Ohio River. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne, where his dissertation , “Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika,” was awarded the Erhardt Imelmann Prize; the revised dissertation was published in 2004. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. He has taught American history at the University of Cologne, and postwar German and European history at the Cologne School of Journalism. Garry Marvin is Professor of Human-Animal Studies at Roehampton University , London. Human-animal relationships, particularly the performances of such relationships, are the focus of his research. He has previously published anthropological studies of bullfighting, cockfighting, zoos, foxhunting, and taxidermy. He is presently working on a monograph on the cultural histories of wolves. Clay McShane is a Professor of History at Northeastern University in Boston. As a historian of urban infrastructures and technology, he has published Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City (1994) and The Automobile : A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact (1997). With Joel Tarr, he coauthored The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the 19th Century (2007). Amy Nelson is an Associate Professor of...

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