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 Brian Cummings FBA
Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam FBA
History of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world; early modern empires and their interaction in the framework of 'connected histories'
Professor Alison Shell FBA
Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.
