Alison Bashford
Bashford in 2021
Born	1963 (age 61–62) Sydney, New South Wales
Awards	Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2010) Fellow of the British Academy (2017)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Sydney (BA [Hons], PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Global history History of science Environmental history
Institutions	University of New South Wales (2017–) University of Cambridge (2013–17) University of Sydney (1996–2012)

Alison Caroline Bashford,FAHA, FBA (born 1963) is a historian specialising inglobal history and thehistory of science. She is Laureate Professor of History at theUniversity of New South Wales and Director of the Laureate Centre for History & Population. Alison Bashford was previouslyVere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at theUniversity of Cambridge (2013–2017).

From 1996 to 2009, Bashford was alecturer in history at theUniversity of Sydney.^[1] She was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2009.^[1] Between 2009 and 2010, Bashford held the Chair of Australian Studies atHarvard University.^[2] Moving to England, she wasVere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at theUniversity of Cambridge and aFellow ofJesus College, Cambridge from 2013 to 2017.^[3] Since 2017, she has beenResearch Professor of History at theUniversity of New South Wales and Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program.^[4]

Bashford has also heldvisiting positions atWarwick University andUniversity College, London.^[5]

Bashford has published six books, includingAn 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) andThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (2016), and has edited seven, includingMedicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present (2006), theOxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (2010), andPacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (2014). Her current work focuses on cosmopolitan histories of modern earth sciences.^[6]

In 2010, Bashford was elected a Fellow of theAustralian Academy of the Humanities.^[7] In July 2017, she was elected aFellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom'snational academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[8] She is also a Fellow of theRoyal Society of New South Wales.^[9]

In 2021 she was awarded theDan David Prize.^[10] She won the 2023Nib Literary Award^[11] and was shortlisted for the 2023Cundill History Prize forThe Huxleys.^[12]

Scholia has a profile forAlison Bashford(Q16194959).

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

• 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 withCarolyn 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 withJoyce 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

• 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 withPhilippa Levine.ISBN 9780199945054
• The Cambridge History of Australia, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Co-edited withStuart Macintyre.ISBN 9781107447516
• Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Co-edited withDavid Armitage.ISBN 9781137001634
• Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2018), with David Armitage andSujit Sivasundaram.ISBN 9781108434829

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• Living people
• 1963 births
• Academics of the University of Warwick
• Academics of University College London
• British historians
• Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
• Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales
• Historians of science
• Academic staff of the University of Sydney
• Fellows of the British Academy
• Australian women historians
• Vere Harmsworth Professors of Imperial and Naval History
• British women historians
• University of Sydney alumni

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