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Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Discipline of Anthropology 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 School of History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney and is a Professorial Fellow of the School of Population and Global 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.
Anthropology, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)
Research interests
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