Lydia V. Pyne

Lydia V. Pyne is an American historian and science writer. She is a current visiting fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Pyne and her work have been featured in National Geographic, Inside Higher Education, the Wall Street Journal, and on ABC, Science Friday, WHYY, KERA, Wisconsin Public Radio, and Talk Nerdy. Early life and education Pyne credits her father, Stephen J. Pyne and her mother, Sonja, with encouraging her to pursue the sciences by being "curious about a lot of things". When she pursued higher education, Pyne was an English major. She ended up switching to anthropology and history, earning a double major in the subjects, both from Arizona State University. She earned her master's from the University of Texas, Austin in anthropology and biology at Arizona State. For her PhD, she started as an archaeology student and in the end, earned a degree in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University. Career