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Tania Munz is an American executive who is the President of Forest History Society. Previously, Munz was the Chief Program Officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Education and career
Munz has a PhD in the history of science from Princeton University. She was a lecturer at Northwestern University.
Munz has worked as a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She was the Vice President for Research and Scholarship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri.
Munz has also served as vice president for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Publications
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. Mark Winston reviewed the book in Nature. Richard Joyner reviewed the book in Times Higher Education.
References
- ^ "TANIA MUNZ IS FHS'S NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO". foresthistory.org. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "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.
- "RTP180 — Homegrown: Tania Munz". pbs.org. PBS. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- Winston, Mark (4 May 2016). "Ethology: Intrepid translator of the hive". Nature. 533 (7601). Nature Magazine: 32–33. Bibcode:2016Natur.533...32W. doi:10.1038/533032a. 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.
External links
- Talk by Tania Munz, Vice President for Scholarly Programs, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, on why the Humanities matter
- Tania Munz on Twitter