Jim Endersby
	Welcome to my website. Here are a few details about who I am and what I do. The Guinea Pig book Academic interests Joseph Hooker
	The Guinea Pig book The UK paperback edition of my first book, A Guinea Pig's History of Biology has just been published by Arrow (May 2008). The US hardback edition is from Harvard University Press. The book was recently longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in the UK (but, sadly, didn't make it to the shortlist). Nevertheless, the magazine New Scientist described the book as "Eye-opening and entertaining, this is cutting-edge history of science that everyone should read". The Sunday Times called it "A highly entertaining and original book". Click here if you would like to know more about the book and the organisms it describes.	[TOP of page]
	Academic interests I am a lecturer in the History Department at the University of Sussex, where I teach the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century science (with a particular emphasis on natural history and biology). My current research involves a comparative study of Anglo-American biology in the inter-war period, looking at national scientific traditions and national identity by analysing scientific practices. There is a complete list of my publications available here. I did my first degree in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales, followed by an MPhil and PhD in the HPS Department at Cambridge, after which I was a research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge.	[TOP of page]
	Joseph Hooker My monograph – Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian science – has just been published by the University of Chicago Press (May 2008). The book uses the career of Joseph Dalton Hooker (pictured on the left) to explore three of the major themes in the historiography of Victorian science: the reception of Darwinism; the consequences of empire; and, the emergence of a scientific profession. Each of its nine thematic chapters looks at a particular scientific practice – such as travelling, classifying or writing – and examines its role in Hooker’s work and its broader significance as a way of placing science within the rapidly developing social world of nineteenth-century Britain. I run a website on Hooker, which tells you more about him and my research.	[TOP of page]

Last updated: April 30, 2008