Philippa Levine
Philippa Judith Amanda Levine, FRAI, FRHistS, is a historian of the British Empire, gender, race, science and technology. She has spent most of her career in the United States and has been Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin.Biography
Philippa Judith Amanda Levine grew up in the United Kingdom and studied at King's College, Cambridge, from 1976 to 1979, when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history; she then completed a doctorate at St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1979 to 1984. The DPhil was awarded for her thesis "The amateur and the professional: antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in nineteenth century England, 1838–1886".
Levine's first academic post was as a lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia. She then spent two years as a research fellow in women's studies at Flinders University of South Australia, before moving to Florida State University as an assistant professor in 1987. Three years later she was promoted to associate professor. In 1991, she moved to the University of Southern California as an associate professor of history and became a full professor in 1994. She was appointed Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. Since 2017, she has been Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin.
Levine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1994 and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 2014.Research
Levine's research has focused on the history of the British Empire, race and gender, and science, medicine and society. Her publications include:
- Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction.
- The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories.
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics.
- Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain: Essays on Modern Britain.
- Italian translation: L’impero britannico.
- The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset.
- Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1860–1950
- Gender and Empire, Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series.
- Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.
- Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race.
- Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public Commitment.
- Victorian Feminism 1850–1900.
- The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838–1886.