Tina Gianquitto to speak at UNCW: November 5

UNCW's Evolution Learning Community and Department of English presents:

"Dangerous Liaisons: Darwin's Carnivorous Plants and the Language of Flowers"

by Tina Gianquitto (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado)

Location: Fisher Student Center, UNCW (Campus Map)
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:30 pm

About Dr. Gianquitto:
A Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University in New York City, Dr. Tina Gianquitto is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Her recent book Good Observers of Nature: American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820-1885 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007) investigates the roles four women played in the context of theories about the natural world during much of the nineteenth century. Her research specialty is the role women played in forwarding and in response to Darwin's thinking about evolution and natural selection. Of late, she is especially interested in studies of carnivorous plants in the context of the development of Darwin's theory of evolution. An indication of the importance of her work is the many recent fellowships and research awards she has received. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2008), a three-year-long ACLS—Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship (2008-2011), and the Dibner History of Science Fellowship for work at the Huntington Library (2008).