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Joan Houston Hall is Distinguished Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She joined the DARE staff in 1975, became Associate Editor in 1979, and was named Chief Editor in 2000.

Read a profile of Hall in Emory Magazine »

Awards & Accolades

2013 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association

A New Yorker Best Book of 2012

A Smithsonian Top Book of 2012

A 2012 “Gifts That Writers Will Actually Use” Selection, The Millions

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Jacket: An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns, by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter, from Harvard University Press

Honoring Latour

In awarding Bruno Latour the 2021 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, the Inamori Foundation said he has “revolutionized the conventional view of science” and “his philosophy re-examines ‘modernity’ based on the dualism of nature and society.” Below is an excerpt from An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. For more than twenty years, scientific and technological controversies have proliferated in number and scope, eventually reaching the climate itself. Since geologists are beginning to use the term “Anthropocene” to designate the era of Earth’s history that follows the Holocene…