Dan Vandersommers

I am a Teaching Assistant Professor at Ball State University. Previously, I have been an NEH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Philadelphia and an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal History at McMaster University. I have also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and Kenyon College. My work sits at the intersection of environmental history, cultural history, and animal studies. My first book is a coedited volume titled Zoo Studies: A New Humanities, which was published by McGill-Queens University Press in July 2019. My next book (my dissertation turned monograph) is titled Humanism Encaged: Popular Zoology and the American Zoo is under contract with the University Press of Kansas. Not only have I published widely, but I have also taught 2,500 students in very different, yet all quite diverse, university environments.