Andrea Ringer
Andrea Ringer

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Dr. Andrea Ringer is an associate professor of history at Tennessee State University where she writes about multispecies workforces. Her first book, <i>Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show</i>, is a labor history of the tented shows<i>. </i>Her next project, under Vanderbilt University Press, is a biography of Old Kate, a mule in Nashville who headed streetcars, pulled repair wagons for the electric company, and retired to the city’s first zoo.
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