About Professor Warwick H Anderson
Professor Warwick H Anderson's research interests include: History of science, medicine, and public health; History of racial thought and Postcolonial science studies.
As a historian of biology, medicine and public health, focusing on Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, Dr Anderson is especially interested in ideas about race, human difference, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Occasionally he writes programmatically on postcolonial science studies and, more generally, on science and globalization.
Before moving to Sydney, Dr. Anderson was Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health, Professor of the History of Science, and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At Wisconsin he also served on the steering committee of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies and was a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Previously he taught at Harvard, Melbourne (where he founded the Centre for Health and Society), UCSF and Berkeley. He has been awarded grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (US), and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2005-06, he was the Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In February 2007, he was the inaugural Wellcome Senior Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named Warwick Anderson a Fellow for 2007-08.
Research projects
- History of the scientific and anthropological investigation of kuru
- History of scientific studies of race mixing in the twentieth century
- History of autoimmunity, or ideas of self and non-self in late-twentieth century immunology
- A science and globalization reader (with Gabriela Soto Laveaga and Amit Prasad)
- Unconscious Dominions: Colonialism and Psychoanalysis (with Richard Keller and Deborah Jensen)
- History of disease ecology
- History of the transparent man
Selected publications
Books
- The Collectors of Lost Souls: Kuru, Moral Peril, and the Creation of Value in Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; forthcoming 2008.
- Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham NC: Duke University Press; 2006; and Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press; 2007.
- The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press; 2002; and New York: Basic Books; 2003. Reprinted MUP, 2005; Duke University Press, 2006. [W.K. Hancock Award (Australian Historical Association) and inaugural Basic Books Award]