Mark V. Barrow, Jr., Associate Professor (Ph.D., Harvard, 1992)

Areas of Specialization: American environmental history, history of science

Current Research: A study of changing attitudes toward human-induced extinction, primarily in the U.S., from the 18th century to the endangered Species Act (1973); also pursuing work on the cultural history of the American alligator.

Recent Publications:
•"Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)

•"Dragons in Distress: Naturalists as Bioactivists in the Campaign to Save the American Alligator," Journal of the History of Biology, forthcoming.

•''Der Reiz des Alligators: Wechselnde Ansichten über einen charismatischen Fleischfresser,'' in Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch, eds., Tierische Geschichte: Die Beziebung von Mensch und Tier in der Kultur der Moderne., (Paderborn: Schöningh, forthcoming)

•"Cooperation, Conflict, and Control: American Ornithologists and Birdwatchers before the Second World War," in Florian Charvolin, André Micoud, and Lynn Nyhart, eds., Des sciences citoyennes?: La question de l'amateur dans les sciences naturalistes (La Tour d'Aigues: Éditions de l'Aube, 2007), 148-166.

•Science, Sentiment, and the Specter of Extinction: Reconsidering Birds of Prey during America's Interwar Years," Environmental History 7 (2002): 69-98.