Ana Betancourt

Ana is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine program at Yale. She's currently interested in the history of plant collecting in the Hispanic Caribbean region during the 19th century. In this way she's thinking about how frontiers and peripheries were codified through botanical surveys and explorations, and how they can be used to contribute to the knowledge production of the botany of the peripheries. Before starting her PhD she graduated with a B.S. in Integrative Biology from the University of Puerto Rico in 2021. During her undergraduate studies, she frequently collaborated with the on-campus herbarium and museum in different capacities. After her undergraduate program she did started a post-baccalaureate program which allowed her to co-curate an exhibit at Yale’s Peabody Museum called “Fakes and Fictions: Unraveling Museum Narratives.” She’s eager to keep collaborating with museums and use of Caribbean collections in her research.