Alison Bashford

Alison Bashford FAHA (born 1963) is a noted scholar of the global histories of science, with particular interest in the modern histories of gender and colonialism.

She is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge., in succession to Sir Christopher Bayly, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney. Between 2009 and 2010, Bashford held the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. Previously, Bashford had positions at Warwick University and University College, London. In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

She has published four books, including Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine (1998), Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism, and Public Health (2004) and Life on Earth: Geopolitics and the World Population Problem (2013), and 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 Malthus and Malthusianism in their international contexts.

Bibliography

Besides a number of book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, Bashford has written or edited the following books:

Books written

• Global population : history, geopolitics, and life on earth (Columbia University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780231147668
• Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (University of Toronto Press/National Library of Australia Press, 2008). Co-authored with Carolyn Strange
• Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
• Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (Macmillan, 1998).

Books edited

• Pacific Histories: Ocean,Land, People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Co-edited with David Armitage. ISBN 9781137001634
• The Cambridge History of Australia, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Co-edited with Stuart Macintyre.
• The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010). Co-edited with Philippa Levine.
• Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security from 1850 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)..
• Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (Routledge, 2003). Co-edited with Carolyn Strange.
• 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).'

External links

• Bashford, Alison Caroline (1963 - ) in The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
• [1] Alison Bashford's website