Interview #3

Caitlin Wylie

List of Caitlin Wylie's publications on fossil preparation:

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2009. ​Preparation in Action: Paleontological Skill and the Role of the Fossil Preparator. In: Methods In Fossil Preparation: Proceedings of the First Annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium, p. 3-12. 

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2015. "The artist's piece is already in the Stone": Constructing creativity in paleontology laboratories. Social Studies of Science. 45:1, p. 31-55.

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2018. Trust in Technicians in Paleontology Laboratories. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 43:2, p. 324-348. 

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2019. Overcoming the underdetermination of specimens. Biology & Philosophy, 34:24.

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2019. The plurality of assumptions about fossils and time. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 41:21.

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2020. Glass-boxing science: Laboratory work on display in museums. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 45:4, p. 618-635.

• Wylie, Caitlin, 2021. Preparing Dinosaurs. The Work behind the Scenes. The MIT Press. 

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To learn more about Caitlin Wylie's research, visit her faculty website here.

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About paleontologist Paul C. Sereno, visit his University of Chicago website here. 

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For more on Pamela Smith's research about the role of artisans in the Scientific Revolution:

• Smith, Pamela, 2004. The Body of the Artisan. Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

• Smith, Pamela, 2008. Artisanal Knowledge and the Representation of Nature in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Studies in the History of Art. 69, p. 14-31.