Elaine Ayers Role Faculty Fellow in Museum Studies, New York University Title Postgraduate Research Associate, History Website Website Bio/Description Dissertation Title:"Strange Beauty: Botanical Collecting, Preservation, and Display in the Nineteenth-Century Tropics" Degree Year 2019 Year of Study Alumni Advisers D. Graham Burnett Erika Lorraine Milam Area of Interest Art History Book History British Studies Colonialism & Postcolonialism Cultural History Digital History Gender & Sexuality Global Islands Material Culture Public History Science Visual Culture Home Department & Other Affiliations History Field(s) History of Science Modern Europe World/Global/Transnational Period 17th & 18th Centuries 19th Century 20th Century Region Europe North America Pacific and Oceania