Tania Munz
Tania Munz is the President of Forest History Society.[1] Previously, Munz was the Chief Program Officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]
Education and career[edit]
Munz has a PhD in the history of science from Princeton University.[1] She was a lecturer at Northwestern University.[2]
Munz has worked as a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.[2] She was the Vice President for Research and Scholarship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri.[1][3]
Munz has also served as vice president for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.[1]
Recognitions[edit]
She is the recipient of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society for 2017 for her book The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language.
Publications[edit]
Munz is the author of The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language published by The University of Chicago Press in 2016.[2]
Mark Winston reviewed the book in Nature.[4] Richard Joyner reviewed the book in Times Higher Education.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "TANIA MUNZ IS FHS'S NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO". foresthistory.org. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Tania Munz". uchicago.edu. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ Hoedel, Cindy (6 September 2016). "KC author Tania Munz tells tale of man who learned the secret language of bees". kansascity.com. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ Winston, Mark (4 May 2016). "Ethology: Intrepid translator of the hive". nature.com. Nature Magazine. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ Joyner, Richard (4 May 2016). "The Dancing Bees and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language, by Tania Munz". timeshighereducation.com. Times Higher Education. Retrieved 6 May 2024.