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Tania Munz

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Tania Munz is an American executive who is the President of Forest History Society.[1] Previously, Munz was the Chief Program Officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]

Education and career

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Munz has a PhD in the history of science from Princeton University.[1] She was a lecturer at Northwestern University.[2]

Munz has worked as a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.[2] She was the Vice President for Research and Scholarship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri.[1][3]

Munz has also served as vice president for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.[1][4]

Publications

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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.[2] Mark Winston reviewed the book in Nature.[5] Richard Joyner reviewed the book in Times Higher Education.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "TANIA MUNZ IS FHS'S NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO". foresthistory.org. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Tania Munz". uchicago.edu. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "RTP180 — Homegrown: Tania Munz". pbs.org. PBS. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
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