Whitney Barlow Robles

Whitney Barlow Robles is an award-winning writer, historian, and curator based outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has published scholarly work in venues such as the William and Mary Quarterly, New England Quarterly, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Commonplace. Her public writing has appeared in Slate, Nautilus, and Natural History, among others. She is the recipient of the Ronald Rainger Early Career Award from the History of Science Society, Harvard’s Bowdoin Prize in the Natural Sciences, and the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize, and her writing has been featured in Bunk’s Best American History Reads.