This page lists the current BSHS ambassadors.
Domestic Biographies

After growing up in sunny San Diego, California, I attended Dartmouth College, where I completed my B.A. in 2009 with majors in European History (High Honors) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. After a short break I returned to studying history, completing a M.Sc. in Modern British and Irish History at the University of Edinburgh, following which I began my Ph.D. work. In my free time I play water polo for the University of St. Andrews.




Originally from Prague, Czech Republic, I obtained a BSc in Biology from the University of St Andrews in 2014. Seeking a way to reconcile my interests in science and the humanities, I joined the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where I received my MPhil in 2015 and subsequently began my PhD.

I have integrated a public engagement aspect into my PhD which explores the visual and material culture of science and medicine, as entry points to discuss aspects of my research. I volunteered as a STEM Ambassador and I am keen to develop and collaborate on projects which encourage BAME students to engage with science.
Yewande has a degree in Biochemistry and worked as a research scientist at the Body Shop. Yewande was part of the founding team which developed the cosmetic science degree course at the University of the Arts, London where she lectured cosmetic chemistry. Yewande completed a Masters in History of Medicine at UCL Wellcome Centre before she commenced her PhD.

I have been working on the early modern science and philosophy since my undergrad days, particularly on Newton’s natural philosophy, its roots and its immediate reception. I completed my MPhil on the problem of language in Thomas Hobbes, trying to make sense of his claim that human language is a tool by means of which we create things; I checked how this idea was applied to his natural philosophy and to his mathematics and the role it played in his major controversies.
After that I moved to do some research on the reception of Newtonianism into colonial Spanish territories in South America, particularly in New Granada (1760-1808) in José Celestino Mutis’ Royal Botanical Expedition. Finally, I returned to the European stage of the Scientific Revolution, trying to fill the gap on the origin of laws of nature in the seventeenth century.

Further research interests include how children learn through play, the history of computing and maths and changing learning pedagogies in primary, secondary and tertiary education.

Thomas previously studied for a Master of Geology degree at the University of Leicester.

She examines Christian conceptualisations of human-animal relations in the late-Victorian religious periodical press. This includes studying the religious engagements with scientific/intellectual developments such as evolutionary theory, as well as debates about the incorporation of non-human animals within a moral sphere and a discourse of ‘rights’ such as in the vivisection debates, and debates concerning human exceptionalism and animal ethics.
Overseas Biographies
Europe



Specifically, my thesis focuses on the zoological collections that were gathered in Lisbon in the second half of the 19th century and that were collected in, what were at the time, the Portuguese territories in Africa. By focusing on the construction of biogeographic knowledge and the contemporary maintenance of the Portuguese empire, my thesis aims to problematize the relationship between taxonomy and imperial discourse, practices, and policies.

Prior to that she was trained in History at the University of Strasbourg under the lead of Prof. Jean-François Chauvard and Prof. Isabelle Laboulais.
She is the co-founder of the History of Science working group (http://euihos.hypotheses.org – Twitter @eui_hos) at the European University Institute, which hosted the 2017 postgraduate BSHS conference.

North America

Australia and New Zealand
