Adriana Novoa

Adriana Novoa is a cultural historian whose specialty is science in Latin America, and with Alex Levine she has written two books about Darwinism in Argentina : From Man to Ape: Darwinism in Argentina , 1870-1920 (University of Chicago Press) and Darwinistas: The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth-Century Argentina (Brill). She is currently completing another manuscript on this topic, which treats the politics of evolutionism and its relationship to gender and race: From Virile...See more

Adriana Novoa is a cultural historian whose specialty is science in Latin America, and with Alex Levine she has written two books about Darwinism in Argentina : From Man to Ape: Darwinism in Argentina , 1870-1920 (University of Chicago Press) and Darwinistas: The Construction of Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth-Century Argentina (Brill). She is currently completing another manuscript on this topic, which treats the politics of evolutionism and its relationship to gender and race: From Virile to Sterile: Masculinity and National Identity in Argentina, 1850-1910 . Dr. Novoa's articles have been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies , Science in Context , The Latinoamericanist , Cuban Studies , and Revista Hispánica Moderna , among others. See less