Sarah Easterby-smith

Biography

Sarah Easterby-Smith joined St Andrews in 2012, having previously held a Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science at the Huntington Library, California, a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute and an Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. she was awarded her PhD at Warwick in 2010.She teach and research eighteenth-century cultural and social history, focusing the global connections and transnational links made between France, Britain and the wider world. My particular research interest is on the relationship between science, society and culture in the eighteenth century, and on how information, knowledge and cultural influences moved (or failed to move) between nations and across social groups. This is reflected in her 3000-level honours modules on the French Revolution and on Franco-British relations in the eighteenth century, and in my 4000-level and MLitt teaching on global and transnational history, social history and the history of science. In summary, her research interests encompass the histories of consumption, collecting and gender in the eighteenth century as well as the history of science and global history. she would be happy to hear from students considering pursuing any of these themes for undergraduate or postgraduate study.

Research Interest

Cultivating Commerce: Cultures of Botany in Britain and France, 1760-1815. Cultures of Natural Knowledge. Making Knowledge, Forging Empire? The French in India, c. 1750-1793