Oscar is a notoriously messy eater. Like all male Eclectus parrots, he uses his large candy-corn beak to pick up a piece of fruit and flings it across the kitchen floor.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Author: Genie Yoo
Dr. Genie Yoo (she/her) is EHN's editor-in-chief. She's a historian of early modern and modern Southeast Asia, working at the intersection of history of science, medicine, environment, and religion. Genie is a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow on Global Slaveries at Indiana University-Bloomington, where she is exploring the role of enslaved individuals and ritual specialists in mediating the natural knowledge of the spice islands. She received her PhD in History from Princeton University in 2022.