Professor Lorraine Daston FBA

History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2010
Subjects
History

Current post

Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Mr Hassoum Ceesay FBA

Hassoum Ceesay's research interests are African colonial and post-colonial history, especially through biographies of women and political leaders, chiefs in British colonial rule, and heritage conservation and interpretation, to bring to the centre those assigned to the margins of Gambian history.

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Professor Valerie Kivelson FBA

Early modern Russian history, history of cartography, empire, visuality, and witchcraft, with interests in politics, gender, and religion in Russia and in comparative perspective

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Professor Mary Fulbrook FBA

20th-century German social history; structures & legacies of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic (GDR); longer-term German and European history in comparative perspective; the Holocaust and collective violence; historical and social theory

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