PEOPLE
Dr Siliva Casini, Lecturer in Visual Culture
Dr CATHERINE JONES, Professor in English
Literature and sciences of the mind; history of emotions; acoustics and literature; technical innovation and the arts. c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk
Dr BEN MARSDEN, Senior Lecturer, History of Science and Technology
BA (MA) (Cambridge) PhD (Kent)
Science and technology in Britain (18th and 19th centuries); the humanitarian movement and veterinary professionalization; science and music; food and history. b.marsden@abdn.ac.uk
Dr LUCA MORETTI, Lecturer in Philosophy
Laurea (Pisa) MLitt (St Andrews), PhD (London)
Epistemology; formal epistemology; logic, metaphysics; philosophy of science. l.moretti@abdn.ac.uk
Prof RALPH O’CONNOR, Chair in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland
BA (MA) (Cambridge), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
Literature and science in Europe and America since 1800; popularization of science since 1800; geology, evolution and religion. r.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Prof PATIENCE SCHELL, Chair in Hispanic Studies
BA (UCB), DPhil (Oxford)
The history of science (especially natural history), museums and friendship in nineenth-century Chile. p.schell@abdn.ac.uk
Dr ULRICH STEGMANN, Lecturer in Philosophy
Diplom-Biologie (Bremen), Dr. rer. nat. (Würzburg), MA, PhD (London)
Philosophy of biology; philosophy of mind and cognition; philosophy of science. u.stegmann@abdn.ac.uk
DOCTORAL STUDENTS (past and present)
Balint Kekedi, "Mechanisms and their significance with respect to scientific explanation and reduction" (supervisor: Catherine Wilson) balint.kekedi@abdn.ac.uk
Daniel McShane, "Limitations of Materialism" (supervisor: Guido Bacciagaluppi)
Cameron Brown, "New Science, Antient Metaphysics: Lord Monboddo's Critique of Newton and Empiricism" (supervisor: Catherine Wilson) cameron.brown@abdn.ac.uk
Alistair Haggarty, "The Scottish Medical Community in London: 1850-1950" (supervisors: Marjory Harper and Ben Marsden)
Liz Neesam, "Medical Print and the Communication of Medical Knowledge in the Age of Improvement in Scotland (1750-1850)" (supervisors: Michael Brown and Ralph O'Connor)
Tanya Kenny, "Railways in WWI" (supervisors: Tony Heywood and Ben Marsden)
Eleanor Peters, domestic science institutes and the domestication of electricity
Ellen Packham, engineers and literature
Sandi Howie, Scottish veterinarian community
Johanna Rustler, railways and WWI
Dr Maggie Bolton (Anthropology): science, technology and expertise, especially in South America; human-animal relations
Dr Brian Brock (Divinity): technology and ethics; theology and disability; medicine, humanity and inhumanity; religion and environmental practices
Dr Alison Brown (Anthropology): anthropology and material culture
Jenny Brown (Industry, Aberdeen Maritime Museum): industry, technology and medicine in the Aberdeen area
Dr Michael Brown (History / Irish and Scottish Studies): the Scottish and Irish Enlightenments
Prof Steve Bruce (Sociology): sociological approaches to secularization
Dr Laura Colucci-Gray (Education): from science education to sustainability education: interfaces between the epistemological reflection on science and pedagogical practice; use of interactive and participatory activities to deal with complex and controversial socio-environmental issues
Prof George M. Coghill (Computing Science): model-based systems, scientific discovery systems, philosophy of information, informational philosophy of science, philosophy of modelling
Prof Cairns Craig (English / Irish and Scottish Studies): late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish scientific and philosophical thought
Dr Neil Curtis (Marischal Museum / Anthropology): history of museums; contemporary museology
Dr Elizabeth Curtis (Education): history of archaeology and antiquarianism in 19th-century public culture
Dr Andrew Dilley (History): history of political economy and empire
Dr JENNIFER DOWNES, Curator (Museums and Special Collections)
Early modern scientific instruments and print culture. j.downes@abdn.ac.uk
Dr Nick Fisher (emeritus, History & Philosophy of Science): Victorian culture and the Great Exhibition
Dr Karin Friedrich (History): early modern Northern intellectual networks
Prof Marjory Harper (History): mental illness and emigration in 19th- and 20th-century Scotland
Prof Tony Heywood (History): history of railways, especially in Russia
Dr Dee Hoole (honorary, History): history of medicine
Prof Hazel Hutchison (English): science in Victorian and early Modernist literature; nursing in the First World War
Prof David Inglis (Sociology): culture, society and nature; globalization
Prof Tim Ingold (Anthropology): human-animal relations; language, technology and skilled practice
Dr Adrienne Janus (English): literary avant-gardes and auditory technology
Dr Áine Larkin (French): photography and literature
Prof James Leach (Anthropology): creativity, knowledge production and ownership; art, science and collaboration; the development of new technologies and their implications for social form
Dr Alexandra Lewis (English): trauma narratives; literature and science, 1800 to present; history of medicine and psychology; fin-de-siècle Britain
Dr Andrew McKinnon (Sociology): energy and sociological theory
Dr Laura McMahon (Film): animals and the moving image
Prof William A. Naphy (History): early modern witchcraft and plague; history of sexuality and deviance
Dr Samantha Newington (History): Near Eastern creation-myths
Dr John Reid (Physics): scientific instruments, history of physical sciences and industry, especially in the Aberdeen area
Prof Robert Segal (Religious Studies): theories of myth and their history; religion and the social sciences
Dr David Smith (honorary, History): 20th-century British medicine, nutrition and food safety. d.f.smith@abdn.ac.uk.
Prof Jane Stevenson (History): late-antique and mediaeval learning
Dr Alex Sutherland (History / Medical Humanities): history of medicine in Scotland; the Enlightenment and folk culture
Dr Will Tuladhar-Douglas (Religious Studies): interaction between ritual and technology in Buddhism; human-animal interactions
Dr Andrew Whitehouse (Anthropology): human-animal interactions; perceptions of nature
Dr Rhoda Wilkie (Sociology): sociology of human-animal interactions
