Alison Bashford
{{Short description|Australian historian}}
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| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales
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| awards = Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2010)
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| discipline = History
| sub_discipline = Global history
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| workplaces = University of New South Wales (2017–)
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University of Sydney (1996–2012)
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Alison Caroline Bashford, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|FAHA|FBA}} (born 1963) is a historian specialising in global history and the history of science. She is Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Population. Alison Bashford was previously Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge (2013–2017).
Academic career
From 1996 to 2009, Bashford was a lecturer in history at the University of Sydney.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Bashford, Prof. Alison Caroline |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-283443 |encyclopedia=Who's Who 2024 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=15 March 2019 |date=1 December 2018|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U283443 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 |url-access=subscription }} She was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2009. Between 2009 and 2010, Bashford held the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/bashford.shtml |title=Professor Alison Bashford – The University of Sydney |publisher=Sydney.edu.au |date=2013-04-11 |access-date=2014-02-12}} Moving to England, she was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 2013 to 2017.{{cite web |url=http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-history-faculty-makes-eight-new-appointments/ |title=Cambridge History Faculty makes eight new appointments — Faculty of History |publisher=Hist.cam.ac.uk |access-date=2014-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222020355/http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-history-faculty-makes-eight-new-appointments/ |archive-date=22 February 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} Since 2017, she has been Research Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program.{{cite web |title=Professor Alison Bashford |url=https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/alison-bashford/ |website=Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences |publisher=UNSW Australia |access-date=15 March 2019 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410193849/https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/alison-bashford/ |archive-date=10 April 2019 |url-status=dead }}
Bashford has also held visiting positions at Warwick University and University College, London.{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/current/visitingfellows/0809alphabetaorder/bashford/ |title=Dr Alison Bashford |publisher=.warwick.ac.uk |date=2009-04-24 |access-date=2014-02-12}}
Bashford has published six books, including An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture (Allen Lane, 2022) Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (1998), Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism, and Public Health (2003), Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (2014) and The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (2016), and has edited seven, including Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present (2006), the Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (2010), and Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (2014). Her current work focuses on cosmopolitan histories of modern earth sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/news.html |title=HPS: History of Medicine: News |publisher=Hps.cam.ac.uk |access-date=2014-02-12}}
Honours and recognition
In 2010, Bashford was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.{{cite web |url=http://www.humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1566/Bashford-Alison.aspx |title=Bashford, Alison, FAHA |publisher=Humanities.org.au |date=1999-02-22 |access-date=2014-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205093114/http://humanities.org.au/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1566/Bashford-Alison.aspx |archive-date=5 February 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} In July 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|website=British Academy|access-date=29 July 2017|date=2 July 2017}} She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalsoc.org.au/about-us/fellows|title=Fellows – The Royal Society of NSW|website=www.royalsoc.org.au|access-date=2018-06-27|archive-date=27 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927051802/https://royalsoc.org.au/about-us/fellows|url-status=dead}}
In 2021 she was awarded the Dan David Prize.[https://www.dandavidprize.org/ Dan David Prize 2021] She won the 2023 Nib Literary Award{{Cite web |date=2023-11-10 |title=Bashford wins 2023 Nib Literary Award |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/11/10/240641/bashford-wins-2023-nib-literary-award/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |publisher=Books+Publishing}} and was shortlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize for The Huxleys.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-03 |title=US$75K Cundill History Prize shortlist announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/10/03/238590/us75k-cundill-history-prize-shortlist-announced/ |access-date=2023-10-02 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}
Selected works
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Besides a number of book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, Bashford has written or edited the following books:
=Books written=
- Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Macmillan, 1998). {{ISBN|9780333682487}}
- Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). {{ISBN|9781403904881}}
- Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (University of Toronto Press/National Library of Australia Press, 2008). Co-authored with Carolyn Strange. {{ISBN|9780802096630}}
- Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (Columbia University Press, 2014). {{ASIN|B00I2G6UXA}}
- The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (Princeton University Press, 2016). Co-authored with Joyce E. Chaplin. {{ISBN|9780691164199}}
- An Intimate History of Evolution: The Huxleys in Nature and Culture, (Allen Lane, 2022). The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, (University of Chicago Press, 2022). {{ISBN|9780226720111}}
=Books edited=
- Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001). Co-edited with Claire Hooker. New edition: Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax (Pluto Press, 2003). {{ISBN|9780415246712}}
- Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (Routledge, 2003). Co-edited with Carolyn Strange. {{ISBN|9780415309806}}
- Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security from 1850 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). {{ISBN|9781137444660}}
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010). Co-edited with Philippa Levine. {{ISBN|9780199945054}}
- The Cambridge History of Australia, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Co-edited with Stuart Macintyre. {{ISBN|9781107447516}}
- Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Co-edited with David Armitage. {{ISBN|9781137001634}}
- Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2018), with David Armitage and Sujit Sivasundaram. {{ISBN|9781108434829}}
References
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External links
- [http://abashford.com/ Alison Bashford's website]
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