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
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
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
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed FBA
The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson
Professor Mark Knights FBA
British and Imperial History 1600-1850; the history of corruption, from early modern to the present; the history of political discourse; print culture; satire and laughter; representation (political, textual and visual).
