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Katie Ana Baca

kbaca@fas.harvard.edu

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ph.D. awarded November 2019 GPA: 4.0

M.A. and Ph.D. in History of Science; secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality

• Dissertation: “Beyond the University: Elite Bostonian Women’s Organizations as Sites of Science Learning, 1868-1910”

Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; A.B. awarded May 2011

A.B. with highest honors in History and Science, secondary field in Economics

• Rothschild Prize for best senior honors thesis in the History of Science Department

TEACHING, TUTORING, AND ADVISING

Harvard College Writing Program

• Preceptor, Expository Writing, fall 2019-present.

o Received Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the Office of Undergraduate Education, fall 2019, fall 2020

Harvard Medical School

• Editor, Effective Writing for Health Care: A Program for Clinicians, Clinical Investigators, and Researchers (postgraduate certificate program)

Harvard College Program in General Education

• Senior Writing Fellow, spring 2020-present

o GenEd 1008: Power and Identity in the Middle East, Professor Melani Cammett

o GenEd Writes research fellow: Developing pedagogical models for GenEd courses

• Head Teaching Fellow, “Gender and Science,” Professor Sarah Richardson, spring 2018

o Received Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

• Teaching Fellow, “Madness and Medicine,” Professor Anne Harrington, fall 2016

o Received Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Harvard Summer School Pre-College Program

• Instructor + course creator, “Darwin: Evolution and Social Movements,” summer 2018

• Instructor + course creator, “Darwin: Then and Now,” summer 2017

Harvard History of Science Department

• Teaching Fellow, “Junior Tutorial,” Dr. Nadine Weidman, fall 2017

o Received Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

• Adviser to Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Writers, 2015-2016 and 2017-2018, 2019-2020.

• Teaching Fellow, “Explaining Epidemics,” Dr. Séan O’Donnell, fall 2015

• Senior Honors Thesis Grader, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Harvard Winternship Program (teaching sophomores)

• Teacher and host, “Navigating the Archives,” January 2017

Harvard Freshman Seminar Program

• Teaching Assistant, “Getting to Know Charles Darwin,” Professor Ned Friedman, fall 2012

Harvard Advising Programs Office

• Peer Advising Fellow, 2008-2010

o Provided academic and personal advice to 19 freshmen; planned weekly social events; helped freshmen navigate their first year at Harvard

Phillips Brooks House Association (tutoring ages 3-14), Cambridge Public Schools via Harvard

• Volunteer, Harvard Emerging Literacy Project (HELP) and the Cambridge After School Program (CASP), 2007-2009

o HELP is an afterschool reading program that aims to provide preschoolers with a strong literacy foundation. CASP is an after school tutoring program that works with low-income children in Cambridge with the aim of bridging the achievement gap. As a volunteer with these programs, I worked both one-on-one and in groups to tutor children.

Kilburn Park After School Program (tutoring years 3-6; ages ~7-11), Kilburn Park School

• Co-President, Kilburn Park After School Program, 2003-2007

o This was an afterschool enrichment and tutoring program at an inner-city school in London, England. As Co-President I developed activity curricula, promoted the program to teachers at the Kilburn Park School, managed the budget for program events, and coordinated transportation, food, scheduling, membership, and attendance.

PUBLICATIONS

Book project (in progress): Bacon and Brandy for Baby, co-authored with Marie C. Baca.

“A 19th Century Cure to Our 2021 Valentine’s Woes?” The Harvard Crimson, February 12, 2021, .

“It’s not the ‘British Variant.’ It’s B.1.1.7,” STAT, February 9, 2021, . Co-authored with Dr. Susana Bejar.

“Use Medical, Not Political, Terminology,” Op Ed, Miami Herald, January 24, 2021. Co-authored with Dr. Susana Bejar.

Review of Patricia Fara, A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2018, 304pp.), published in Nuncius, vol. 34, issue 3 (December 2019), 729-31.

Review of Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information (University of Chicago Press, 2015, 248pp.), to be published in History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 12 expected in 2021.

“‘The Evolution of Woman’ versus ‘The Descent of Man,’” Darwin and Gender: The Blog, August 22, 2012.

The Quotable Darwin, Harvard University, summer 2015

Research Assistant to Professor Janet Browne

• Collected Charles Darwin’s most quotable quotes from an array of his correspondence and publications for Browne’s The Quotable Darwin (Princeton University Press, 2017)

John Tyndall Correspondence Project, Harvard University, March 2014-January 2015

Research Fellow, Volume 2 of The Correspondence of John Tyndall

• Provided historical context through footnotes and formatted letters to aid readers in contextualizing and understanding the correspondence

• Edited the introduction, footnotes, and transcribed letters to ensure clarity and accuracy

Darwin Correspondence Project, Harvard University, 2012-2013

Research Fellow

• Collaborated to research, edit, and design educational materials on Darwin and gender: darwinproject.ac.uk/darwin-and-gender-introduction

• Created educational resources focused on Darwin's work on human nature

• Performed historical and analytical research that aided the publication of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

• Transcribed 700+ Darwin family letters using the Project's standardized editorial markup conventions -- these letters help to contextualize Charles Darwin's correspondence

• Created archival records of books and personal papers donated to the Darwin Correspondence Project

• Blogged for the Darwin & Gender blog and maintained the @DarwinWomen Twitter (now merged with @MyDearDarwin).

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND RESEARCH AWARDS

• Harvard GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2018-2019 academic year

• Hiebert Conference Travel fellowship, June 2017

• Rothschild Prize for best undergraduate honors thesis in the History of Science Department, Harvard College, Spring 2011

CONFERENCES, INVITED LECTURES, AND TALKS

“Beyond Degrees: Women’s Extra-Academic Scientific Learning in the Long Nineteenth Century,” February 5, 2018, Invited Guest Lecture for Gen Ed course: “Gender & Science,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

“Science and Suffrage in Bostonian Women's Educational Organizations, 1868-1910,” June 2, 2017, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexuality, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

“Beyond the Academy: Adult Women’s Scientific Engagements as Fostered by Women’s Educational Organizations in Boston, 1868-1910,” January 26, 2016, Harvard History of Science Department Seminar, Cambridge, MA

Women in Science Wikipedia Mini Conference, Cambridge University, March 8, 2013

Co-Organizer and Co-Host

• Created and updated bibliographical information on the Darwin Correspondence Project website in advance of this event

• Coordinated the preparation of materials for this event within the Darwin Correspondence Project's Harvard office

• Helped event participants create polished Wikipedia entries for a dozen 19th century women who partook in scientific endeavors

DEPARTMENTAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Volunteer Interviewer for Harvard College, 2017-present

• Interview Harvard College applicants from a wide range (geographically, socioeconomically, and pedagogically) of high schools

History of Science Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard University, May 2017-October 2018

• Manage the Harvard History of Science department’s library, which contains 5,000 volumes bequeathed by George Sarton and I. B. Cohen. The collection is predominantly from pre-1965 and includes many premodern and Islamic texts.

Visiting Weekend and Orientation Co-Organizer, Harvard University, spring and fall 2014

• Planned the spring visiting week and fall orientation for the incoming cohort of History of Science PhD students

OTHER

Languages: working Spanish, reading French

About me: Cuban-American, dual citizen (US and UK), raised in London. Two-time US national champion heavyweight rower and sculler (with experience coaching at the high school level)

Passions: the intersections of gender and science, women’s rights, assignment design and innovation, expository writing, closing the achievement gap, and all things chocolate!

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