Lydia Pyne

Lydia Pyne has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University. Lydia has participated in field and archival work in South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Iran, and the American Southwest. She has published articles and essays in the Atlantic, Nautilus, and Public Domain Review, and she is a contributing editor for Appendix: A Journal of Experimental and Narrative History. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Lydia lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an avid rock climber and mountain biker.