Professor Warwick Anderson
B.Med.Sc., M.B., B.S., M.D. (Melbourne), M.A., Ph.D. (Pennsylvania); FAHA, FASSA, FAHMS, FRSN
Professor of History
Member of the Charles Perkins Centre
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
| Telephone | +61 2 9351 3365 |
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Biographical details
Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and leader of the Politics, Governance and Ethics Theme with the Charles Perkins Centre. From 2012-17 Warwick Anderson was ARC Laureate Fellow in the Department of History and the Center for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Additionally, he has an affiliation with the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney and is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne. In 2018-19 he will be the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.
As an historian of science, medicine and public health, focusing on Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, Professor 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 globalisation.
Before moving to Sydney in 2007, Prof. 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 Prof. Anderson 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 and Mellon Foundations. He was the Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2005-6), and a Guggenheim Fellow (2007-8). He has held visiting professorships at Harvard, Manchester and McMaster universities. In 2013 he was John Hope Franklin Fellow at Duke University and the Whitney J. Oakes Fellow in the Humanities Center at Princeton University. His books have been awarded the W.K. Hancock Prize (AHA, 2004); the Philippines National Book Award for Social Science (2008); the NSW Premier's General History Prize (2009 and 2014); the William H. Welch Medal (AAHM, 2010); and the Ludwik Fleck Prize (4S, 2010).
Research interests
- History of science, medicine, and public health
- History of racial thought
- Postcolonial science studies
Awards and honours
2018-19 Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University
2014 History of Science Society's Price/Webster Prize for article - “Hybridity, Race, and Science: The Voyage of the Zaca, 1934-1935.”(2012). Isis: international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 103(2), 229-253.
2013 Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
2013 Whitney J. Oakes Fellow, Princeton University
2013 John Hope Franklin Fellow, Duke University
2012 Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
2012-17 ARC Laureate Fellow, 2012-2017
2012 Lyman Hookes Distinguished Visiting Professor, McMaster University
2012 Senior Fellow, Max-Planck-Insitüt für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
2007-8 Guggenheim Fellow
2007 Wellcome Trust Senior Visiting Professor, University of Manchester
2005-6 Frederick Burkhardt Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
2005-6 Member, School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton
International links
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Portugal |
(University of Lisbon)
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Singapore |
(National University of Singapore)
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Taiwan |
(East Asia STS Journal and Taiwan National Science Council)
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United States |
(University of Wisconsin-Madison UCSF)
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Selected grants
2018
- How infectious diseases became ecological: A global history; Anderson W; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2016
- Domains of Biological Individuality; Anderson W, Nyhart L; DVC Research/International Research Collaboration Award (IRCA).
- Global Ethics and Futures (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Miles R, Anderson W, Bleasel J, Haq I, Lea T, Griffiths P, Jou C, Poronnik P, Race K, Hickey-Moody A, Ross P; DVC Education/Large Educational Innovation Grant.
2015
- Biobank Networks, Medical Research and the Challenge of Globalisation; Kerridge I, Stewart C, Cumming R, Easteal S, Kowal E, Waldby C, Lipworth W, Critchley C, Anderson W, Marlton P; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Project Grants.
- Aboriginal Communities as Sites of Experiment: Making Research Subjects; Anderson W, Johnson M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Lusophone Racial Networks Conference; Anderson W; Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science/Research Support.
2013
- NETWORK FOR ORGANS, BODIES AND TISSUES (NBOT); Stewart C, Anderson W, Cashman P, Cooper M, Griffiths P, Hooker L, Jordens C, Kerridge I, Lupton D, Magnusson R, Michael M, Pols H, Race K, Salkeld G, Savell K, Scott Bray R, Shewan L, Waldby C; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
2012
- Southern Racial Conceptions: Comparative Histories and Contemporary Legacies; Anderson W; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Australian Laureate Fellowships (FL).
- Disease and the Modern Self: Becoming Autoimmune; Anderson W, Mackay I; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2009
- Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth-Century British World; Anderson W, Jones R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2008
- Racial Laboratories and Reproductive Frontiers: The Twentieth-Century Sciences of Human Hybridity; Anderson W; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2007
- History of Scientific Studies of Race Mixing in the Twentieth Century; Anderson W; National Science Foundation/Research Grant.
- Guggenheim Fellowship: The Science of Race Mixing in the Twentieth Century; Anderson W; Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG)/Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Professorial Research fellowship; Anderson W; University of Sydney/Professorial Research fellowship.
2005
- Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship; Anderson W; ACLS and Institute for Advanced Studies/Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship.
2004
- Histories of Colonial Psychoanalysis; Anderson W; UW-Madison International Studies and Programs/Research Grant.
2002
- Exchange Relations in Modern Science; Anderson W; National Science Foundation/Research Grant.
- Exchange Networks in Modern Medical Science; Anderson W; University of California/Humanities Research Institute Conference Award.
Selected publications & creative works
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Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
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Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties (Duke University Press, 2011)
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The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
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Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (republished 1st edition) (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007)
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Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines (original 1st edition) (Duke University Press, 2006)
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The cultivation of whiteness : science, health and racial destiny in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2002)
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