About Associate Professor Alison Bashford
Associate Professor Bashford's recent work has explored the history of nationalism and imperialism through the history of medicine and science. Her research areas include modern medical history, the history of gender and the history of science.
Associate Professor Bashford is Chair of the Department of History in semester 1, 2008. She has published widely in the cultural history of medicine and public health. Her books have focussed on both British and Australian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is an Honorary Associate of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, teaches in the graduate program in Medical Humanities and is Co-Chair with Robert Aldrich of the 'Nation-Empire-Globe' Research Cluster. Associate Professor Bashford currently supervises theses on medical history in Australia and the UK; modernity and gender history; history of Aboriginal health; history of sexuality.
Selected publications
Books
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press: New York, forthcoming). Co-edited with Philippa Levine.
Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer
(National Library of Australia Press: Canberra, 2008). Co-authored with
Carolyn Strange.
Medicine at the Border: Disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present (London and New York: Palgrave, 2006). Editor
Imperial Hygiene: a critical history of colonialism, nationalism and public health (London and New York: Palgrave, 2004).
Isolation: places and practices of exclusion (London and New York: Routledge, 2003). Co-edited with C. Strange.
Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (London and New York, Routledge, 2001). Co-edited with Claire Hooker.
Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (London and New York: Macmillan, 1998).