
Alison Grace Laurence
Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Bio
Alison Laurence is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education. She received her PhD from MIT’s interdisciplinary program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) in 2019. A cultural and environmental historian, she specializes in the study of nature on display. Her current book manuscript--Of Dinosaurs and Culture Wars: Extinction, Extraction, and Modern American Monsters--traces how popular displays transformed dinosaurs and other creatures of deep time from scientific specimens to consumer objects and artifacts of everyday American life. Alison’s work has appeared in the Science Museum Group Journal, the History of Anthropology Newsletter, and the Anthropocene Curriculum. She holds a BA in Classics from Brown University and an MA in History and Public History from the University of New Orleans.
During the 2021-22 academic year, she is teaching "Stories Everywhere," "Design That Understands Us," "The Meat We Eat," and a new IntroSem called "Animal Archives."
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
2021-22 Courses
- Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human
HISTORY 42Q (Spr) - Design that Understands Us
THINK 66 (Win) - Stories Everywhere
THINK 49 (Aut) - The Meat We Eat
COLLEGE 104 (Spr) -
Prior Year Courses
2020-21 Courses
- 100,000 Years of War
THINK 54 (Win) - Stories Everywhere
THINK 49 (Aut)
2019-20 Courses
- 100,000 Years of War
THINK 54 (Win) - Preventing Human Extinction
THINK 65 (Spr) - Stories Everywhere
THINK 49 (Aut)
- 100,000 Years of War
All Publications
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Pleistocene Park, and other designs on deep time in the Interwar United States
NOTES AND RECORDS-THE ROYAL SOCIETY JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
2021
View details for DOI 10.1098/rsnr.2021.0032
View details for Web of Science ID 000703880000001
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Merpeople: A Human History. (Book Review)
HISTORY
2021; 106 (369): 155–57
View details for Web of Science ID 000616638700025