Laurel Braitman Explained
Laurel S. Braitman (born February 11, 1978) is an American science historian, writer,[1] and a TED Fellow.[2]
She is Writer-in-Residence at the Stanford School of Medicine[3] and a Contributing Writer for Pop Up Magazine.[4] She is also an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The Guardian,[5] The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company,[6] The New Inquiry,[7] Salon,[8] and a variety of other publications.
Laurel frequently collaborates with visual artists[9] [10] [11] and musicians[12] [13] [14] like Black Prairie to create concerts for all-animal audiences, such as wolves.[15]
Biography
Braitman was born and raised on a citrus farm near Ventura[16] in southern California.[17] [18] She majored in Biology and Writing at Cornell University, where she was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and graduated summa cum laude. She worked as an intern in the Weekend Edition Saturday program at NPR.[17] She received a John S. Hennessey scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wherein 2013, she received her Ph.D. in the history and anthropology of science. Braitman lives in San Francisco, California.[16]
She is the author of Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves, which was published in October 2015. In the book, Braitman shows through a wealth of research that nonhuman animals are startlingly similar to us in how they are affected by mental illness, and in what methods best help them recover.[19] [1]
Bibliography
Books
- Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves (2015)
- What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love (2023)
Essays and reporting
- January 2018 . Recognize these dirty birds? . Explore. Birds . National Geographic . 233 . 1 . 15.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Animal Madness by Laurel Braitman . . 2014-04-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140429075628/http://pages.simonandschuster.com/animalmadness-facebook/ . 2014-04-29 . dead .
- Web site: Laurel Braitman -- TED Fellow . . 2014-06-30 . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Stanford Medicine . Stanford Medicine.
- Web site: Pop-Up Magazine . Pop-Up Magazine . 2016-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160126031237/http://popupmagazine.com/issues/fall-tour-2015-la/ . 2016-01-26 . dead .
- Web site: Animal Behavior . The Guardian . . 2014-10-04 . 2015-09-16.
- Web site: Dog Complex . Fast Company . . 2013-10-23 . 2015-09-16.
- Browne . Andrew Springer . Laurel Braitman . Marijuanimals . . 2013-04-19 . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Harris . Malcolm . Suicidal dogs and bipolar wolves . . 2012-09-26 . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Art & Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Laurel Braitman, Historian. The Zookeeper's Couch . . 2010-09-14 . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Galápagos Chorus . . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Human/Nature Credits . Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet . 2014-06-30 . https://archive.today/20140430144730/http://www.artistsrespond.org/credits/ . 2014-04-30 . dead .
- Web site: Video: Grass Widow Plays Music for Gorillas at the Zoo . . 2011-08-01 .
- Web site: Thompson . Barry . How Grass Widow came to play a concert for a small group of great apes . . 2011-08-04 . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Understanding the animal mind... through music . . 2012-07-31 . 2014-06-30.
- Web site: Making Music For Animals .
- Web site: Animal Madness - Laurel Braitman - Author Biography . LitLovers . . June 2014 . 2014-07-01.
- Web site: Intern Bios . . 2014-07-01 .
- Web site: KFA Rights Guide . The Karpfinger Agency . . October 2013 . 2014-06-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190018/http://www.graal.com.pl/sites/default/files/katalogi/KFA%20Rights%20Guide%20October.pdf . 2014-07-14 . dead .
- Book: www.amazon.com . 978-1451627015 . Braitman . Laurel . 20 October 2015 . Simon and Schuster .