Participant Info

First Name
Elaine
Last Name
Ayers
Affiliation
New York University
Website URL
elaineayers.com
Keywords
History of Science, Museums, Collecting, Botany, Plants, Natural History, Art, Aesthetics, Architecture, Material Culture, Animals, Colonialism, Anthropocene, Gender, Sexuality, Race, Technology
Additional Contact Information

Personal Info

Photo
About Me
Recent Publications

“Coded Colours: Botanical Histories of Colour Standardization,” The Site Magazine 40.2 (2019).

The Curiosity Corporation that Defined Colonialism,” Hyperallergic (2019).

Using AI to Produce ‘Impossible’ Tulips,” Hyperallergic (2019).

It Is Disturbing to Find / The Man on the Moon,” The Public Domain Review (2018).

Noble Rot,” Cabinet Magazine 64 (2018).

Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology,” The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. III (New York: PDR Press, 2016).

Hunting Gorillas in the Land of Cannibals,” The Appendix 2.2 (2014).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Australia, England, Netherlands, Pacific, Southeast Asia
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Book History, Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Libraries & Archives, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Race, Science, Sexuality, Technology, Women