Hanna Rose Shell

Society of Fellows, Harvard University :: Assistant Professor, MIT Program in STS


List of publications

Below is a list of my publications, divided into thematic categories. Links to copies are included where possible. See also my list of films.

ARTICLES

"Textile Skin: Lives and Afterlives of the Social Fabric in Haiti," Transition 96, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame A. Appiah (Fall 2006): 151–163. Reviewed by the Wilson Quarterly in Winter 2007 and re-printed as "Secondhand Kennedy."

"On American Camouflage and Photography: A Wonderfully Deceptive Appearance of Flatness," in Alphabet Manifesto: New Theories of Photography, ed. Laura Wexler. New Haven, Photographic Memory Workshop, 2006.

"Things Under Water: Etienne–Jules Marey's Aquarium Laboratory and Cinema's Assembly," in Dingpolitik: Atmospheres of Democracy, ed. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 326–332.

"The Face of Extinction: The Case of Martha the Last Passenger American Pigeon," Natural History Magazine (May 2004).

"Casting Life, Recasting Experience: Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature," Configurations: Journal for the Society of Science & Literature 12 (Winter 2004): 1–40.

"Skin Deep: American Taxidermy, Embodiment and Extinction," in The Past, Present & Future of Natural History Museums, ed. A. Leviton. San Francisco: Academy of Sciences, 2004, pp. 88–112.

"Last of the Wild Buffalo," Smithsonian Magazine (February 2000): 26–32.

EDITED VOLUME

General editor, The Extermination of the American Bison [1889] by W. T. Hornaday (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002). In addition to editorial work, authored the volume's introduction, entitled "Soul in the Skin: William T. Hornaday and the Buffalo Group, 1896–1996."