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Philippa Judith Amanda Levine, FRAI,
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, is a historian of the
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, gender, race, science and technology. She has spent most of her career in the
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and has been Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities (2010–17) and Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas (since 2017) at the
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.


Biography

Philippa Judith Amanda Levine grew up in the
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and studied at
King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...
, from 1976 to 1979, when she graduated with a
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(BA) degree in history; she then completed a
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(DPhil) at
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, from 1979 to 1984 (supported firstly by a postgraduate studentship from King's College, Cambridge, and then from 1980 with a
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research studentship)."Philippa Levine"
''University of Texas at Austin''. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
"Curriculum Vitae: Philippa Judith Amanda Levine"
University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
The DPhil was awarded for her
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"The amateur and the professional: antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in nineteenth century England, 1838–1886"."The amateur and the professional: antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in nineteenth century England, 1838-1886"
''EthOS'' (British Library). Retrieved 7 February 2018. Levine's first academic post was as a lecturer in history at the
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(1983–85). She then spent two years as a research fellow in women's studies at
Flinders University of South Australia Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
, before moving to
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as an assistant professor in 1987. Three years later, she was promoted to associate professor. In 1991, she moved to the
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as an associate professor of history and became a full professor in 1994. She was appointed ''Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities'' at the
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in 2010. Since 2017, she has been ''Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas'' at the University of Texas at Austin. Levine was elected a
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(FRHistS) in 1994, and a Fellow of the
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(FRAI) in 2014.


Research

Levine's research has focused on the history of the British Empire, race and gender, and science, medicine and society. Her publications include: * ''Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). * (Co-edited with John Marriott) ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories'' (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012). * (Co-edited with
Alison Bashford Alison Caroline Bashford, (born 1963) is an 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 & Popul ...
) ''The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). * (Co-edited with Susan Grayzel) ''Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain: Essays on Modern Britain'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). * ''Italian translation: L’impero britannico'' (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009). * ''The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset'' (Harlow: Longman Pearson 2007). * (Co-edited with Kevin Grant and Frank Trentmann) ''Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1860–1950'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) * (Edited) ''Gender and Empire'', Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). * ''Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire'' (New York: Routledge, 2003). * (Co-edited with Laura E. Nym Mayhall and Ian Christopher Fletcher) ''Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race'' (London: Routledge, 2000). * ''Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public Commitment'' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990). * ''Victorian Feminism 1850–1900'' (London: Hutchinson Education, 1987). * ''The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838–1886'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).


References

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