Ghosts Behind Glass - Encountering Extinction in Museums

About the author

Dolly Jørgensen is professor of history at the University of Stavanger and coeditor in chief of the journal Environmental Humanities. She is the author of Recovering Lost Species in the Modern Age: Histories of Longing and Belonging and The Medieval Pig and the coeditor of several volumes, including Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships. In 2025 she won the Gad Rausing Prize for Outstanding Humanities Research, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities.

Product details

• Authors: Dolly Jørgensen, Dolly Jørgensen
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 17.11.2025
• EAN: 9780226842301
• ISBN: 978-0-226-84230-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: 80 color plates
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Natural History, Zoology & animal sciences, History of Science, Conservation of the environment, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Zoology and animal sciences