Assistant Director of Library & Museum Programming
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Adrianna Link is the Assistant Director of Library & Museum Programming at the American Philosophical Society. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of History of Science and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University in 2016, where she specialized in the history of 20th c. American anthropology. Her work has been published in The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and The Atlantic, as well as in the edited volume on Global Transformation in the Life Sciences, 1945-1980 (University of Pittsburgh, 2018). She is currently preparing a book manuscript on the history of "urgent anthropology" at the Smithsonian Institution. In addition to her work at the APS, she also serves as a Managing Editor for The History of Anthropology Review.