Jennifer Tucker

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

September–December 2005

Jennifer Tucker is associate professor of history at Wesleyan University. A cultural historian specializing in the history of science, especially of the nineteenth century, she is author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science (Baltimore, 2005) and of numerous articles on scientific photography and problems in the history of science. At the Clark, she will be beginning her next book entitled, Darwinism by Design: The Struggle for a Visual Language of Evolution, in which she will examine how visual media were, and are, deployed in debates over evolution and creationism.