Academic Staff
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- Berg, Maxine
Professor Maxine Berg
Research Expertise: Global trade and material culture in the early modern world; economic and social history in 18th and early 19th century Britain and Europe; intellectual history.
- Bivins, Roberta
Professor Roberta Bivins
Research Expertise: History of colonial and postcolonial biomedical research; the history of medical technologies, and the history of genetics/genomics, particularly in relation to migration and public health.
- Bycroft, Michael
Dr Michael Bycroft
Research Expertise: Early modern science, technology and medicine; materials and their use in the sciences; methodology of the history of science; science and state-formation in early modern France.
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- De Smet, Ingrid
Professor Ingrid De Smet
Research expertise: the intellectual culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth-century France, the Low Countries and Italy, including print culture and the history of the book, and the history of hunting (falconry; bird trapping; fishing). Current book project on Locks, Keys and Seals, or The Instruments of Secrecy: from Object to Metaphor.
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- Lines, David
Professor David Lines
Research Expertise: Late medieval and Renaissance philosophy and intellectual history; natural and moral philosophy in early modern Italy; Aristotelianism; institutions of learning (especially universities and academies); history of libraries and of the book.
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- Mann, Sophie
Dr Sophie Mann
Research Expertise: Medicine, science and religion in early modern England; the history of the body; the history of anatomy.
- Marland, Hilary
Professor Hilary Marland
Research Expertise: History of psychiatry and mental science, technologies of health and medicine in the household, and public health.
- Molà, Luca
Dr Luca Molà
Research Expertise: History of technology, early modern Italy; the silk industry; patenting innovation
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- Poskett, James
Dr James Poskett
Research Expertise: Global history of science and technology, early modern to present; material culture of science; history of anthropology and race; history of the mind; history of scientific instruments
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- Shafiee, Katayoun
Dr Katayoun Shafiee
Research Expertise: History of the Islamic World; Politics of Oil in the Middle East, specifically Iran; Infrastructures; Science and Technology Studies
- Shaw, Claire
Dr Claire Shaw
Research Expertise: History of disability and the body in socialist societies; the history of prosthetics, assistive technologies, bionics and the cyborg.
- Simpson, Thomas
Dr Thomas Simpson
Research Expertise: Environmental history, history of science, and imperial and colonial history
- Smith, Elise
Dr Elise Smith
Research Expertise: History of medicine and the life sciences in Britain and the British Empire since 1800, with a particular emphasis on the history of anthropology and scientific racism, military medicine, metrology, and representations of the health sciences in popular culture.
- Stein, Claudia
Dr Claudia Stein
Research Expertise: Medicine and science in early modern Germany (1500-1800); enlightenment science and medicine, strategies of biopower (1800-today); visual culture and medicine (1500-today); the history of epistemology.