Tania Munz
American non-profit executive
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Tania Munz is an American executive who is the President of Forest History Society.[1] Previously, Munz was the Chief Program Officer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]
Education and career
Munz has a PhD in the history of science from Princeton University.[1] She was a lecturer at Northwestern University.[2]
Munz has worked as a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.[2] She was the Vice President for Research and Scholarship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri.[1][3]
Munz has also served as vice president for Scholarly Programs at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.[1][4]
She was awarded the 2017 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize by the History of Science Society for The Dancing Bees.[5]
Publications
Munz is the author of The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language published by The University of Chicago Press in 2016.[2] Mark Winston reviewed the book in Nature.[6] Richard Joyner reviewed the book in Times Higher Education.[7]