York University

Department Member, Science and Technology Studies Program

Other Affiliations: Brock University, History

Thesis Title: Beyond the Armchair: Early Observational Practices and the Making of British Anthropology 1813-1871

About

My research explores the intersection of natural history, medicine, anthropology, environment, and society in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain and France. I am a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and I am currently working as a research associate on the John Tyndall Correspondence Project, which is co-organized out of Montana State University and York University in Canada. Between September 2012 and August 2014 I will be taking up a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at York University for a project on nineteenth-century visual culture and anthropology.