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 Colin Jones FBA
History of France, especially 17th to 19th centuries; French Revolution; history of medicine; cultural history
Professor Denis Crouzet FBA
Religions history, 'Histoire de l'imaginaire', Wars of religion, War & peace during the European Renaissance, astrology, early modern political thought.
Professor Manuel Barcia FBA
Manuel Barcia's research interests include nineteenth-century Atlantic and Global History; Piracy, Slavery and the Slave Trade; African History in Africa and the Diaspora; Warfare, Resistance and Rebellion; Imperialism, Abolition and Colonialism; and Medicine and Disease.
