Harriet Ritvo | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Historian, author |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University(A.B)(Ph.D.) |
Academic work | |
Main interests | British cultural history Environmental history History of natural history |
Harriet Ritvo is an American historian who specializes in British history, particularly environmental history and the history of natural history. Ritvo is the Arthur J. Connor Professor of History at MIT and a member of the Program in Science, Technology and Society, and she was the head of MIT's History Faculty from 1999-2006.[1]