Name Alison Bashford | Role Critic | |
Books Global population : history, Imperial hygiene, Purity and pollution, Griffith Taylor: Visionary Similar People Philippa Levine, Carolyn Strange, Ronda Armitage | ||
Professor 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 2013, she has been the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
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Academic career
She is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge., in succession to Sir Christopher Bayly, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. Between 2009 and 2010, Bashford held the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. Previously, Bashford had positions at Warwick University and University College, London.
She has published four books, including Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine (1998), Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism, and Public Health (2004) and Life on Earth: Geopolitics and the World Population Problem (2013), 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 Malthus and Malthusianism in their international contexts.
Honours
In 2010, Bashford was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 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.