Academic Staff
History of Science,
Medicine, and
Technology in Oxford:
Institutions and People (PDF)
Professor of the History of Science
Museum of the History of Science (website)
Dr Jim Bennett (Director): Scientific instruments; astronomy; practical mathematics; museums
Dr Stephen Johnston (Assistant Keeper): Scientific instruments; Renaissance mathematical arts and sciences; technological design
Dr John Heilbron (Senior Research Associate): Physical science and its institutional setting since the Renaissance; twentieth-century physics
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine (website)
Professor Mark Harrison (Director and Professor of the History of Medicine): War, imperialism, and medicine, 1700–1945
Dr Sloan Mahone (Deputy Director and University Lecturer in the History of Medicine): History of psychiatry in East Africa; psychology of social movements; colonialism
Dr Karen Brown (ESRC Research Fellow): History of veterinary science in southern Africa; environmental history
Dr Erica Charters (University Lecturer in the History of Medicine): History of prisoners of war during the mid-eighteenth century; examination of the role of disease among French troops during the Seven Years War (1756-63)
Dr Sanchari Dutta (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow): History of disease, health and medicine in modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean world
Dr Saurabh Mishra (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow): Disease, Famines and Livestock: Veterinary Health and the Peasant Economy in Colonial North India, 1860-1943
Other university and college staff
Dr Frédérique Ait-Touati (Modern Languages; New College): Literature, scientific writing, and history of ideas of the seventeenth century
Professor David Anderson (Director of the African Studies Centre; St Cross College): Social, political, and environmental history of East Africa, including science and medicine
Dr Philip Beeley (Centre for Linguistics and Philology; Linacre College): Early modern philosophy and history of science
Professor William Beinart (African Studies Centre; St Antony’s College): Environmental history and related ideas about science in Africa, especially Southern Africa
Robin Briggs (Faculty of History; All Souls College): Popular and élite attitudes in France, 1500–1800
Professor Laurence Brockliss (Faculty of History; Magdalen College): Science and medicine in early modern France; institutionalization and popularization of new ideas and discoveries
Professor Harvey Brown (Faculty of Philosophy; Wolfson College): History and philosophy of quantum theory and relativity
Dr John Christie (Faculty of History): History of chemistry, 16th–18th century, science and medicine in the Enlightenment
Professor Robert Fox: Physical science & technology since 1700, especially in France; scientific and technological change
Dr Ruth Harris (Faculty of History; New College): Medicine, the law, and society in nineteenth-century France
Professor Peter Harrison (Faculty of Theology; Harris Manchester College): Early modern intellectual history, philosophical, scientific, and religious thought in seventeenth-century England
Dr Beryl Hartley (Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Faculty of History): Natural history in Britain, mid-seventeenth century to mid-nineteenth century
Dr Howard Hotson (Faculty of History; St Anne’s College): Early modern intellectual history, especially central European: science, religion, education, and reform 1550–1660
Dr Muriel Le Roux (Maison Française d’Oxford (CNRS); Linacre College): Science and technology, research and industrial policies in the nineteenth century
Dr Rhodri Lewis (Faculty of English; St Hugh’s College): Universal languages, the Art of Memory, “science” and intellectual pursuits in seventeenth-century England
Dr Javier Lezaun (Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance, James Martin Institute, Saïd Business School; Kellogg College): The sociology of the life sciences and the regulation of biomedicine
Dr Arthur MacGregor (St Cross College): The history of collections
Professor Ian Maclean (Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages; All Souls College): Renaissance Aristotelianism; methodology in medicine, law, and theology, 1460–1630
Dr Noel Malcolm (Faculty of History; All Souls College): Early modern intellectual history
Revd Canon Dr Charlotte Methuen (Faculty of Theology; Keble College): The relationship between observational astronomy, philosophy, and theology in the sixteenth century
Dr Kathryn Murphy (Faculty of English Language and Literature; Jesus College): Theories of cognition and categorization in the seventeenth century, early modern encyclopaedism
Dr Peter Neumann (Faculty of Mathematics; The Queen’s College): History of algebra in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Dr William Poole (Faculty of English Language and Literature; New College): Literary, scientific, and intellectual history of the seventeenth century
Dr John Robertson (Faculty of History; St Hugh’s College): Seventeenth-century scientific movement; early modern political thought; Scottish and Neapolitan enlightenment, 1685–1800
Dr Simon Saunders (Faculty of Philosphy; Linacre College): Philosophy of science, with special reference to modern physics
Dr John Senior (Faculty of History; Linacre College): The therapeutic uses of electricity
Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Faculty of English Language & Literature; St Catherine’s College): Science and the theatre
Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Head of Humanities, University of Oxford; St Anne’s College): Victorian Studies, inter-relations between literature and science
Professor Paul Slack (Faculty of History; Linacre College): Plague, public health, and social policy, 1500–1750
Dr Jacqueline Stedall (Mathematical Institute; The Queen’s College): Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century mathematics
Dr Kate E. Tunstall (Faculty of Modern Languages; Worcester College): Enlightenment philosophy and science
Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh (Faculty of History; All Souls College): Mathematics, music in the early modern period
Dr Caroline Warman (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages; Jesus College): The history of materialism in the philosophy, science, and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Dr Charles Webster (Faculty of History; All Souls College): Twentieth-century health service; medicine, science, and cultural change in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Dr Michael Whitworth (Faculty of English Language and Literature; Merton College): Science and modernist literature
Professor Stephen Woolgar (Saïd Business School; Green College): Sociology of scientific knowledge and technology: laboratory science, virtual society
Dr Brian Young (Faculty of History; Christ Church): Intellectual and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries