Deirdre Moore

Deirdre Moore’s research focuses on complex relationships between humans, plants and insects. Deirdre’s work has been supported by the European University Institute, the American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, the Newberry Library (Chicago), the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Tyler Fellowship (Dumbarton Oaks) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, among others. She received her PhD in the history of science from Harvard University with her dissertation, “The Heart of Red: Cochineal in Colonial Mexico and India.” Her main research interests lie in exploring connections in the history and origins of economic history, the Enlightenment, Indigenous knowledge and the history of entomology and insect interactions with human communities.

She also makes films about insects.

Image from our digital collections:

Detail of “White Cabbage Butterfly,” part of Princess & Fairy, or, The Wonders of Nature, 1899