I am a historian and director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. My research focuses on the history of western ideas about animals. I am the author of _Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo_ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), a study of the origins of naturalistic displays in zoological gardens, and the editor of the collection _Representing Animals_ (Indiana University Press, 2002). I am the General Editor of the book series Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures for Penn State University Press, which I co-founded with Garry Marvin in 2012. Volume 7 in that series, _Elephant House_, is the result of a three-year collaboration with the photographer Dick Blau.
Experience
2008–present
Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2018–present
Associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2000–2008
Director of the Edison Initiative, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1994–2000
Editor, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Education
1994
Harvard University, PhD
1987
Harvard University, MA
1985
University of Utah, BA
Publications
2015
Elephant House (with Dick Blau), Penn State UP
2002
Representing Animals, Editor, Indiana UP
2002
Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo, Johns Hopkins UP