Audrey Rankin

Audrey Rankin is a PhD Candidate in history at Temple University. She specializes in Colonial Latin America, the history of science, and the Atlantic World. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Collecting for the Crown and the Capital: Scientific Networks, Reform, and Ideas of Empire in Late Eighteenth-Century New Granada,” focuses on private and imperial scientific collecting projects and their impact on local and imperial policy reform in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) during the latter half of the 18th century.