Catherine McNeur is a history professor at Portland State University and the award-winning author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard). She is currently writing a book about the scientists Margaretta Hare Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris.
The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
The Morris sisters made significant contributions to botany and entomology, but their stories were erased from the history of early American science, both accidentally and by design.
The Woman Who Solved a Cicada Mystery—But Got No Recognition
Margaretta Hare Morris discovered that the hordes of chirping insects that will emerge en masse this spring come in more than one species