Professor David Stack
Professor
Department of History
University of Reading
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Professor David Stack is currently working as a Professor in the Department of History, University of Reading , United Kingdom. Responsibilities: Undergraduate teaching My teaching reflects my research interests in the inter-relationship of ideas (especially 'scientific' and medical ideas) and politics in the history of Britain and beyond. At Part One I teach an Approaches to History module, which takes John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (1869) as its text; at Part Two I teach a Period in History module entitled: Birth Control, the history of an idea: from Malthus to Marie Stopes. My Special Subject, Victorian Lives, is a study of eight Victorian autobiographies and their authors: Mary Seacole, John Stuart Mill, John James Bezer, 'Walter', Charles Darwin, Annie Besant, Molly Hughes, and Edmund Gosse. My third year Topic, From Darwin to Deathcamps?, charts evolutionary and eugenic ideas in European society from 1859 to 1945. Areas of Interest: I believe strongly in the need to promote both interdisciplinary understanding and public engagement with history. In 2008 and 2009 worked with the Natural History Museum's 'Nature Live' team in promoting public understanding around the Museum's Darwin200 events. Within the University I have helped to establish a Darwin Reading Group, which brings together staff and students from across the Humanities/Natural Sciences divide, and I am currently working with colleagues in English and Biological Sciences to establish a new interdisciplinary module for Part 1 students. Research groups / Centres: Research statement I have gained research funding from the British Academy, the Wellcome Trust, the AHRC, and the ESRC. In 2010 I held a Countway Fellowship in the History of Medicine, at Harvard Medical School.
Research Interest
Areas of Interest: I believe strongly in the need to promote both interdisciplinary understanding and public engagement with history. In 2008 and 2009 worked with the Natural History Museum's 'Nature Live' team in promoting public understanding around the Museum's Darwin200 events. Within the University I have helped to establish a Darwin Reading Group, which brings together staff and students from across the Humanities/Natural Sciences divide, and I am currently working with colleagues in English and Biological Sciences to establish a new interdisciplinary module for Part 1 students.
Publications
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Stack D. Sexual Politics. Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day.
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Hadley E, Lecourt S, McClure KM, Small H. Gowan Dawson (gd31@ leicester. ac. uk) is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-author of Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Currently he is writing a new book entitled ‘Show Me the Bone’: Fragmentary Fossils, Functionalist. ViCtOriAn StUDieS. 2011;53(2).
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Stack D. About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Victorian Studies. 2011;53(2):331-2.
