Alison Bashford

Alison Bashford, FAHA, FBA (born 1963) is a noted scholar of the global histories of science, with particular interest in the modern histories of gender and colonialism. Since 2017, she is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales.

Academic career

She is research professor of history at the University of New South Wales and Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program. From 2013 to 2017, she was at the University of Cambridge as Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History[1] and prior to this Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. Between 2009 and 2010, Bashford held the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.[2] Previously, Bashford had positions at Warwick University and University College, London.[3]

She has published five books, including The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (2016)Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine (1998), Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism, and Public Health (2004) and Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (2014), and edited seven, including Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present (2006), the Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (2010), and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (2014).

Her current work focuses on cosmopolitan histories of modern earth sciences.[4]

Honours

In 2010, Bashford was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[5] In July 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).[7]

Bibliography

Besides a number of book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, Bashford has written or edited the following books:

Books written

  • Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Macmillan, 1998).
  • Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
  • Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (University of Toronto Press/National Library of Australia Press, 2008). Co-authored with Carolyn Strange
  • Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth (Columbia University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780231147668
  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (Princeton University Press, 2016), with Joyce E. Chaplin

Books edited

  • Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001). Co-edited with Claire Hooker. New edition: Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax (Pluto Press, 2003).'
  • Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (Routledge, 2003). Co-edited with Carolyn Strange.
  • Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security from 1850 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010). Co-edited with Philippa Levine.
  • The Cambridge History of Australia, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Co-edited with Stuart Macintyre.
  • Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Co-edited with David Armitage. ISBN 9781137001634
  • Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2018), with David Armitage and Sujit Sivasundaram.

References

  1. ↑ "Cambridge History Faculty makes eight new appointments — Faculty of History". Hist.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Professor Alison Bashford - The University of Sydney". Sydney.edu.au. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  3. ↑ "Dr Alison Bashford". .warwick.ac.uk. 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  4. ↑ "HPS: History of Medicine: News". Hps.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  5. ↑ "Bashford, Alison, FAHA". Humanities.org.au. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  6. ↑ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Fellows - The Royal Society of NSW". www.royalsoc.org.au. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
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