• Comment: Hi NoahKale, need additional reviews of her work by reputable sources/critics. S0091 (talk) 17:09, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Hello! I put this draft together about Rebecca Herzig, I think she is notable based on WP:ACADEMIC notability guidelines. This is my first time submitting an article, so please let me know if you have any feedback for me. Thanks! NoahKale (talk) 15:47, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Rebecca Herzig is a writer and professor. She is chair of the program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College in Maine.[1][2]

Career

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Herzig is the author of Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America, The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race from Jefferson to Genomics, and Plucked: A History of Hair Removal.[3][4][5] Herzig’s work on hair removal examines how changing social norms have influenced the “voluntary” pursuit of beauty.[6] Plucked was named best book of the year by the Economist.[7]

Herzig has been on the executive councils of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, the Society for the History of Technology, and the International Committee for the History of Technology.[8] She has received MIT’s Kristen E. Finnegan Prize and Bate’s Kroepsch Award for her teaching.[9][10]

Herzig is also a regular media commentator.[11][12]

References

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  1. ^ "Rebecca Herzig Faculty Expertise". 31 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  2. ^ Muir, Ellie. "Women with body hair remain a cultural taboo, and I can't see it changing". Independent. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Rutgers University Press".
  4. ^ "MIT Press".
  5. ^ "The Casualties of Women's War on Body Hair". The Atlantic. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  6. ^ Salam, Reihan (18 September 2015). "Hair Raising". National Review. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Shelf Life". Economist. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Rebecca Herzig Faculty Expertise". 31 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Kroepsch Award". 16 July 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Convocation honors accomplishments of many". MIT News. 3 June 1998. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  11. ^ "Adam Ruins Everything". TruTV. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  12. ^ "Podchaser".