Hugh Raffles is a recipient of the Whiting Award for nonfiction and the author of Insectopedia, a New York Times Notable Book and the winner of both the Orion Book Award and the Ludwig Fleck Award of the Society for Social Studies of Science. His first book, In Amazonia: A Natural History, received the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing. His essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Granta, Orion, Cabinet, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times. Born in the UK, he lives in New York City, where he is professor of anthropology and director of the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought at The New School.