Lawrence, Elizabeth Atwood 1929-

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LAWRENCE, Elizabeth Atwood 1929-

PERSONAL: Born October 1, 1929, in Boston, MA; daughter of Warren G. (a physician) and Leila M. (a homemaker) Atwood; married Robert P. Lawrence (a minister), June, 1957; children: Priscilla Ann, Mark Atwood. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Mount Holyoke College, B.A. (English), 1951; University of Pennsylvania, V.M.D., 1956; Brown University, Ph.D. (cultural anthropology), 1979. Religion: Protestant. Hobbies and other interests: Birdwatching, nature study, English literature, "with a specialty in English Romantic poetry (Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth)," eco-literature.

ADDRESSES: Home and offıce—435 Old Harbor Rd., Westport, MA 02790.

CAREER: Practiced veterinary medicine in Westport, MA, 1960-74; Tufts University, Medford, MA, professor of environmental and population health at School of Veterinary Medicine, 1981-2000. Lecturer on conservation and human-animal interactions.

MEMBER: International Society of Anthrozoology, American Anthropological Association, American Veterinary Medical Association, Association for Women Veterinarians, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, American Veterinary Medical History Society.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named woman veterinarian of the year, Association for Women Veterinarians; International Distinguished Scholar Award, International Association of Human-Animal Interactions Organizations.

WRITINGS:

Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and theTame, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984.

Hoofbeats and Society: Studies of Human-Horse Interactions, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1985.

His Very Silence Speaks: Comanche—the Horse WhoSurvived Custer's Last Stand, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1989.

(With Gerald Lang and Lee Marks) The Horse:Photographic Images, 1839 to the Present, Harry N. Abrams (New York, NY), 1991.

Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 1997.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A work on "symbolic views of animals and nature and the ways these affect human interactions with animals and nature."

SIDELIGHTS: Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence told CA: "My motivation is to analyze and shed light on the human relationship to nature and animals, with the hope that, if these relationships are understood, they may become less destructive."