Marcy Norton is a historian and professor whose research focuses on early modern cultural encounters, especially between European and indigenous societies following the voyages of 1492. She teaches at the Department of History and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania, where her work explores how animals, plants, and human societies shaped cultural and environmental histories across the Atlantic world. Norton is the author of *The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492*, published by Harvard University Press in 2024, which examines how early modern peoples understood, classified, and lived with animals in the wake of global contact and exchange. Her scholarship builds on earlier books including *In the Devil’s Snare* and *Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures*, and has been supported by fellowships from institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. Norton’s research combines close textual analysis with environmental history to reveal how human-animal relationships informed colonial encounters, social hierarchies, and scientific knowledge between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.