About the Project
Project Title
New World Nature
Assignment
Student researchers for Professor MacKenzie Cooley's New World Nature project examined the relationships between natural things and their environments to reconstruct how early moderns learned from the nature in which they lived at the dawn of the biological disciplines. Students conducted original research in the history of science in Canada, the Dominican Republic, France, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States.
Deliverables
database
interactive map
research papers
website
Design Tools
VIKUS viewer
WordPress
Date
2019
Faculty
Mackenzie Cooley, Assistant Professor of History
Collaborators
hristian Goodwille, LITS
Lisa McFall, LITS
Janet Simons, LITS
Steve Young, LITS
Students
Bret Olsen, LITS
Departments and Offices
History
Levitt Public Affairs Center
Library and Information Technology Services
New World Nature Project Website
Maureen Nolan, "New World Nature Project," Hamilton Magazine, July 3, 2020. Link to article
