She is chair of the program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College in Maine.
[3][4] Herzig is the author of Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America,[5] The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race from Jefferson to Genomics, and Plucked: A History of Hair Removal.
[6][7][8] Herzig’s work on hair removal examines how changing social norms have influenced the “voluntary” pursuit of beauty.
[11] She has received MIT’s Kristen E. Finnegan Prize and Bate’s Kroepsch Award for her teaching.
[19] The Economist called Plucked a “delightful history of hair removal in America,”[20] and The Journal of American History said the book was an “interesting, serious, and meticulously researched contribution to American history.”[21] Books Edited works