Carolyn Merchant

es profesora de Historia, filosofia y ética ambiental en la University of California, Berkeley. Miembro de History of Science Society desde 1962. Ha sido presidenta de la American Society for Environmental History y ha participado en los consejos asesores y de redacción de, entre otros, Environmental History, Environmental Ethics o Ethics and the Environment. Entre sus monografias, destacamos: The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (1980); Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England (1989); Earthcare: Women and the Environment (1996); Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2003); Autonomous Nature: Problems of Prediction and Control from Ancient Times to the Scientific Revolution (2017); The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability (2020).