My full CV is available here.

In press

Elliott, Steve, Kate MacCord, and Jane Maienschein. “Help with Data Management for the Novice and Well-Seasoned Alike.” In The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Grant Ramsey and Andreas De Block, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (volume under contract, expected 2022).

In print

Maienschein, Jane, and Kate MacCord. What is Regeneration? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein. “Explaining Regeneration: Cells and Limbs as Complex Living Systems, Learning from History.” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.734315

MacCord, Kate. “A Dual Mission: Research and Education as Critical to the Scientific Integrity of the Marine Biological Laboratory,” in Why Study Biology by the Sea? Eds. Jane Maienschein, Karl Matlin, Rachel Ankeny. 2020. University of Chicago Press.

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein. “The Historiography of Embryology and Developmental Biology,” In The Historiography of Biology Eds. Michael Dietrich, Mark Borrello, Oren Harman. 2020. Springer Press. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74456-8_7-1.

MacCord, Kate. “The impacts of assumptions on theories of tooth development and evolution at the turn of the nineteenth century.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41, no. 1 (2019): 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-019-0245-2 

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein. “Understanding regeneration at different scales.” eLife 8 (2019): e46569. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.46569 

Steinert, Beatrice, Kate MacCord. “Visualizing the Cell: Pictorial Styles and their Epistemic Goals in General Cytology,” In Visions of Cell Biology: Reflections on Cowdry’s Cytology Eds. Karl Matlin, Jane Maienschein, Manfred Laubichler. 2018. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein. “Cells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth at the Intersection of Fields,” in The Darwinian Tradition in Context: Research Programs in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology Ed. Richard Delisle. 2017. Springer Press.

Maienschein, Jane, Kate MacCord. “Changing Conceptions of Human Nature,” In Frankenstein Eds. Jason Robert, Ed Finn, David Guston. 2017. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

MacCord, Kate, Guido Caniglia, Jacqueline E. Moustakas-Verho, and Ann C. Burke. “The Dawn of Chelonian Research: Turtles between Comparative Anatomy and Embryology in the 19th Century.” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 324, no. 3 (2015): 169-180. DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22587

Book Reviews

MacCord, Kate. “The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology by Andrew S. Reynolds.” The Quarterly Review of Biology 95, no. 2 (2020): 163.

MacCord, Kate. “Whose view of embryos?.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology & Biomedical Sciences C 53 (2015): 103-106.

MacCord, Kate. “The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique by Philip Lieberman.” The Quarterly Review of Biology 89 no. 1 (2014): 58–59. doi:10.1086/675021

Encyclopedia/Public Audiences

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein (April 2018) “Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory,” In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0027989 

MacCord, Kate, Jane Maienschein, Wes Anderson, Marci Baranski, Florian Huber, Valerie Racine, Jonathan LaTourelle.  “The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) History Project.” News from the Profession newsletter of the History of Science Society (2014) October. 

MacCord, Kate, Jessica Ranney, Erica O’Neil. “3rd USA Science and Engineering Festival.” News from the Profession newsletter of the History of Science Society (2014) July. 

MacCord, Kate, “Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2014-01-22). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/7512

MacCord, Kate, “Endothelium”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2014-01-28). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/7517.

MacCord, Kate, “Ectoderm”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-12-02). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/6642.

MacCord, Kate, “Mesoderm”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-11-26). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/6603.

MacCord, Kate, “Endoderm”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-11-17). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/6584

MacCord, Kate, “Germ Layers”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-09-17). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/6273

MacCord, Kate, “Human Evolution Inferred from Tooth Growth and Development”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-03-28). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/4936. 

MacCord, Kate, “The inductive capacity of oral mesenchyme and its role in tooth development (1969-1970), by Edward J. Kollar and Grace R. Baird”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-03-15). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/4218

MacCord, Kate, “Biological Clocks and the Formation of Human Tooth Enamel”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2013-01-31). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/4213

Kearl, Megan, Kate MacCord. “On the Induction of Embryonic Primordia by Implantation of Organizers from Different Species” (1924), Hilde Mangold’s Dissertation”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2012-12-19). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/4208

MacCord, Kate, “Epithelium”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2012-10-17). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/3946

MacCord, Kate, “Mesenchyme”. Embryo Project Encyclopedia (2012-09-14). ISSN: 1940-5030 http://embryo.asu.edu/handle/10776/3941.