Lecture + Book signing 

 

Cultural anthropologist Elana Shever spent years observing paleontologists at work in one of the most important regions in the world for dinosaur discovery. Two of these being Colorado’s very own Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, CO and the fossils housed right here in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.  

 

Join us for an insightful evening with Dr. Shever, author of Making our Beasts: Paleontology in the United States University of California Press, 2025),  as she shares what she discovered about people, practices and culture behind the science that brings prehistoric life to the public and how fossils shape our understanding of the past in the United States. 

 

Elana Shever is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has held research fellowships at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Rochester Humanities Center and Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.