Graduate Student Affiliate
Javier González Cortés
- Campus: NB
- Email: jag633@history.rutgers.edu
- PhD or MA: PhD
- School : SAS
- Department: History
- Project: Animal collecting in natural history (18th century)
- Research Areas (themes, countries): History of Science, Animal History, Scientific Collecting, Colombia, Latin America
- Bio: Javier is a Ph.D student in History interested in understanding the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals in Colombia and other parts of Latin America. He is particularly interested in the history of science done in the 18th century. Javier holds a master’s degree in bioethics and his undergraduate studies were in biology. Before joining the Ph.D program in History at Rutgers, he worked as an assistant professor at the Institute of Bioethics of the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, where he taught courses on environmental and animal ethics.
