Whitney Barlow Robles

Whitney Barlow Robles is a historian, science writer, and curator and a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale University Press), which was a finalist for numerous awards, including the George Perkins Marsh Prize and the Shapiro Book Prize. Excerpts of the book received honors like the Ronald Rainger Early Career Award in History of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, Harvard’s Bowdoin Prize, the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize, and a place on Bunk’s Best American History Reads. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Nautilus, The William and Mary Quarterly, and Animal History, among others, and is forthcoming in Orion. She’s currently writing a narrative nonfiction book about specimen collecting. She lives outside of Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, daughter, calico cat, some guard lizards, and the occasional palmetto bug. Follow her work at https://whitneybarlowrobles.com/.