Philip Howell
Senior Lecturer
Department of Geography
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Biography
Career: 1984-1987: University of Cambridge 1987-1988: Harvard University 1989-present: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Qualifications BA 1987 University of Cambridge PhD 1994 University of Cambridge
Research Interest
My research interests contribute to two research thematic groups, Population, Health and Histories and Natures, Cultures, Knowledges within the Department. The main strands of work are: The regulation of prostitution in Britain and its empire - including its legacy in post-colonial Ireland Geographies of gender and sexuality - particularly gendered and sexualised identities in the nineteenth-century city The 'animal turn' in history and human geography - geographies of relations between societies and non-human animals Literary geography - the representation of space and time in fiction and in narrative in general
Publications
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Howell, P.M.R., 2007. Foucault, sexuality, geography, in Crampton, J.W. and Elden, S. (eds.) Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and Geography, Ashgate Pub Co. p.291-315.
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Howell, P., 2009. Geographies of regulation, Cambridge Univ Pr. 299pp.
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Howell, P., 2015. At home and astray: The domestic dog in Victorian Britain. p.1-252.
