[Jeannette Vaught]

Hello!

I came to this challenge a bit late, but it is a very good one!  I joined a few groups with varying levels of activity, and created two new ones (Science and Technology Studies and Agricultural History).

It was great to have another summer camper to chat with over on the Animal Studies list 🙂

One question I have is an HC identity one: many animal studies scholars already have vibrant discussion hubs going on other internet places (i.e., H-Net) — how might HC develop a different, but no less robust discussion space?

 

[Jeannette Vaught]

Hello Sara!  I’m a fellow HC Summer Camper, a little behind on our second challenge.  I’m glad to see a fellow animalista in the summer camp group!  Are you subscribed to H-Animal?  There’s a lot of excellent discussion there, as well as a wealth of posted syllabi and current books/articles.  It would be great to help get better discussion going on HC too, and to get more folks who are involved with HAS on this site!

 

I’m not a literary scholar, so my foundational texts reflect a historical bent! As far as texts that got me into the discipline, I’d have to say these:

Donna Haraway’s Primate Visions (and then most everything else too; I teach with the Companion Species Manifesto)

Virginia deJohn Anderson’s Creatures of Empire

Hal Herzog’s Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

New work that is shaping my thinking on nonhuman topics: writing by Brigitte Fielder, Kim Tallbear, Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

[Jeannette Vaught]

Hello!  After a few passes through it, here’s my profile so far: https://hcommons-staging.org/members/jvaught/

I had one, but it needed a tone and content overhaul.  Great suggestions from the challenge and excellent examples from the group helped quite a bit!

As for photos, I had headshots done by a photography student friend a while back and I use them *all the time*!  It was a great investment- I recommend it.

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