Soju: A Global History

The Probiotic Planet: Using Life to Manage Life

Victoria Lee is assistant professor of the history of science and technology at Ohio University. She is a 2020–’21 fellow at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris. Her book, The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in fall 2021.

Victoria Lee

Gods of Small Things

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Victoria Lee is assistant professor of the history of science and technology at Ohio University. She is a 2020–’21 fellow at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris. Her book, The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in fall 2021.