2017 Seminar Organizer 

Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker is Associate Professor of History and Science in Society at Wesleyan. Her first book, Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science, examined the historical relationships of photography, science and culture in 19th-century Britain. Recently she completed a manuscript for a second book, about a Victorian trial of imposture and identity. With UCLA law school dean Jennifer Mnookin she is co-editing a forthcoming Photography and Law Reader with Bloomsbury Academic Press.  Her interests in history, technology and law extend to the study of firearms in British and imperial history.  She is currently editing with two Smithsonian curators, Barton Hacking and Margaret Vining, a book of  essays, Firearms in History, forthcoming with Smithsonian Institution Academic Press. She also organized a roundtable discussion for Technology and Culture with seven curators of national and local firearms museums on the topic of history and heritage, based on a conference at Aspen Institute last September in Washington, D.C.

She is the author of two op-ed pieces about firearms in history, “The Not-So-Wild West,” published in Inside Sources in Sept. 2015, based on her experience growing up in Kansas and Oklahoma, and, with Matthew Miller, for the Boston Globe. Available online at http://www.insidesources.com/the-not-so-wild-west/ and https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/10/06/what-clean-air-act-can-teach-about-reducing-gun-violence/mcayVFnbveBXkUKROUaA1I/story.html