Hannah Anderson
Hannah Anderson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a historian of early America and she is interested in the history of science, environmental history, and gender history. Her book manuscript, Lived Botany: Settlers and Natural History in the Early British Atlantic, examines how settlers exchanged botanical knowledge with Indigenous people and how these interactions shaped the development of the science of natural history.
Before coming to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Dr. Anderson was the University College Fellow in Early American History at the University of Toronto. Dr. Anderson鈥檚 work has been supported by many institutions, including the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. In 2024, Dr. Anderson was a Dibner Long-Term Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in California.
You can reach her at [email protected].
Publications:
“The Useful Caribbean: Settlers’ Botany and Plantation Cultures,” The Journal of the History of Ideas 87 no. 2 (April 2026).