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 Geoffrey Hosking FBA

Emeritus Professor of Russian History

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Professor Rebecca Earle FBA

History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing

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Professor Patricia Clavin FBA

The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression

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