Helen Curry is Melvin Kranzberg Professor in the History of Technology at the School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology. Curry is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, where lead the multi-researcher project, “From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security” with funding from the Welcome Trust. Her current research centers on the histories of seeds, crop science, and industrial agriculture, and she is interested in the history of the Green Revolution as way of understanding agricultural transformations and the organization of scientific research since the 1950s. Professor Curry is the author of Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth Century America (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (University of California Press, 2022) as well as many articles on the history of agricultural research and plant breeding technologies. For knowing more about the Professor Helen Curry you and click on www.helenannecurry.com or follow @hacurry on Twitter.

Helen Curry es Profesor de la cátedra “Melvin Kranzberg” de Historia de la Tecnología en la Facultad de Historia y Sociología del Instituto de Tecnología de Georgia. Curry también es investigadora honoraria en el Departamento de Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia de la Universidad de Cambridge, donde dirige el proyecto “De la recolección al cultivo: perspectivas históricas sobre la diversidad de cultivos y la seguridad alimentaria” con financiación del Welcome Trust. Su investigación actual se centra en la historia de las semillas, cultivos, ciencia y la agricultura industrial, y está interesada en la historia de la Revolución Verde como una forma de comprender las transformaciones agrícolas y la organización de la investigación científica desde la década de 1950. La profesora Curry es autor de Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America (University of Chicago Press, 2016) y Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (University of California Press, 2022), así como varios artículos sobre la historia de la investigación agrícola y las tecnologías de fitomejoramiento. Más información sobre las investigaciones de la profesora Helen Curry www.helenannecurry.com.

Curry, Helen. 2016. Evolution Made to Order. Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth Century America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo24313051.html

Curry, Helen. 2022. Endangered Maize. Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction. Oakland: University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520307698/endangered-maize

Curry, Helen. 2023. Breeding Confusion: Hybrid Seeds and Histories of Agriculture. In The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(3), 1037-1055.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2023.2180357