{"id":100,"date":"2015-08-31T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/rebecca-m-herzig\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:07:35","slug":"rebecca-herzig","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/rebecca-herzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Herzig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Herzig is the author or editor of several books, including Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America<\/a><\/em>, The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics<\/a><\/em> (with Evelynn Hammonds) and the series, Feminist Technosciences <\/em><\/a>\u00a0(with Banu Subramaniam). Herzig’s writing has appeared in Science<\/em>, The Lancet<\/em>, American Quarterly<\/em>, Journal of Social History<\/em>, and Radical History Review <\/em>among other journals, and Herzig’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Macarthur Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Some of Herzig’s most recent peer-reviewed essays may be found in boundary 2<\/a>,\u00a0Feminist Studies<\/a>, and The Gender of Things<\/a> <\/em>(Routledge).<\/p>\n

Herzig has served as an elected member of the executive councils of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, the Society for the History of Technology, and the International Committee for the History of Technology. Among other ongoing board work, Herzig represents Androscoggin County on Maine Public’s Community Advisory Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A frequent media commentator, a selection of Herzig’s podcast presentations may be found here<\/a>, interview with Alok Vaid-Menon here<\/a>, conversation with the hosts of Pacifica’s “Letters & Politics” series here<\/a>, and appearance on Adam Ruins Everything<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herzig’s most recent academic monograph, Plucked<\/a>, was named a “Best Book of the Year” by the Economist<\/em> magazine and the\u00a0Science Friday<\/em> national radio program. Excerpts from other reviews:<\/p>\n

“[A]n interesting, serious, and meticulously researched contribution to American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Journal of American History<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c[A] fascinating new book\u2026very timely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 The Times (London)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRead on. This book is astonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Press Herald (Portland)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cRebecca Herzig manages to explore issues of race and gender, class and religion, power and commerce, with both intellectual rigor and a healthy sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c[E]ye-poppingly informative, thought-provoking and, almost against the author\u2019s will, frothy fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Maclean\u2019s<\/em><\/p>\n

At Bates, Herzig teaches courses and advises theses for Africana, American Studies, Digital and Computational Studies, Environmental Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and History, along with supervising courses of independent study and self-designed, independent majors. Herzig also currently heads the program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and the General Education Concentration in Material Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":3733,"template":"","class_list":["post-100","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-higher-education","expertise-interdisciplinary-research-methods","expertise-science-and-technology-studies","expertise-us-social-and-cultural-history","expertise-specific-digital-cultures","expertise-specific-gender-and-sexuality-in-stem","expertise-specific-material-culture","expertise-specific-race-and-racism-in-stem","expertise-specific-social-studies-of-medicine","expertise-specific-transnational-feminisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/100\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}