Professor Janet Browne FBA

History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
History

Current post

Harvard University Aramont Professor of the History of Science

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mark Mazower FBA

The history of modern Europe, especially the Balkans and modern Greece; ideas of international governance in historical perspective; historiography and the interconnection between life writing and professional history

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Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle

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Professor Catherine Merridale FBA

The social, political and cultural history of Russia since the twelfth century, with a special interest in the twentieth century and in the lived experience and legacies of Stalinism

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