Mackenzie Cooley - The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance

Mackenzie Cooley is an Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College where she teaches the history of science and intellectual history. She earned her doctorate from Stanford University and subsequently joined Cornell University as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Council of Library and Information Resources, and I Tatti – the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Her first book, The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, concerns animal-human relationships, the history of biology, and race in Italy and the Spanish Empire; it will be published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2022.