David N Livingstone

Personal profile

Research Interests

My research interests congregate around several related themes: the histories of geographical knowledge, the spatiality of scientific culture, and the historical geographies of science and religion. I am currently involved in two writing projects. The first focuses on the geographies of Darwinism. Here I am attempting to elucidate the role of space and place in the circulation of Darwinism and the construction of Darwinian meaning. The second, under the working title ‘The Empire of Climate’, is a social history of environmental determinism from Herodotus to Global Warming.

Achievements

Major Awards

Fellow of the British Academy, elected 1995
Back Award, Royal Geographical Society, 1997
Member of the Royal Irish Academy, elected 1998
Centenary Medal, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1998
British Academy Research Reader, 1999-2001
Templeton Foundation Lecture Prize, 1999
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, elected 2001
OBE, for services to Geography and History, 2002
Member of the Academia Europaea, elected 2002
Member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, elected 2002
Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Social Sciences, 2008
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2011-2014
Corresponding Member, International Academy of the History of Science, elected 2011
Founder’s Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 2011
Hon D. Litt, University of Aberdeen, 2013
CBE, for services to scholarship in Geography, History of Science and Intellectual History, 2019

Named Lectures / Lecture Series

Charles Lyell Lecture, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994
Templeton Lecture, Oregon State University, 1999
Weston Lecture, Augustine College, Ottawa, 2000
Hettner Lectures, University of Heidelberg, 2001
Murrin Lectures, University of British Columbia, 2002
Progress in Human Geography Lecture, Royal Geographical Society, 2005
Appleton Lecture, University of Hull, 2007
Von Humboldt Lecture, U.C.L.A., 2007
Gordon Manley Lecture, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007
Gunning Lecture, University of Edinburgh, 2009
Gregory Lecture, University of Southampton, 2010
Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen, 2014
Walton Lecture, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 2015
Dudleian Lecture, Harvard University, 2015

Other

Recent External Appointments

Member, Geography Panel (35), UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2001
President, Geography Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005
Visiting Fellowships Officer, Section SS3, British Academy, 2005-08
Deputy Chair, Geography and Environmental Studies Sub-Panel (32), RAE 2008
Vice-President (Research), Royal Geographical Society, 2007-2010
Council, British Society for the History of Science, 2009-2011
Member, International Grants Committee, The Uses and Abuses of Biology, The Faraday Institute, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, 2011-
Member, Advisory Board, Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Research Programme, The Historical Society (USA), 2011-
Royal Irish Academy, North-South Committee, 2013-
Senior Research Fellowships Panel, Section SS3, British Academy, 2015-
Royal Irish Academy, Brexit Working Group, 2017-19
Royal Irish Academy, Advisory Committee for the Assessments of Candidates, 2018-
British Academy Global Professorships Panel, 2019-

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Projects

1 Active

R8869NBE: Conjunctive Explanations: How Science and Religion Can work Together

Finnegan, D. & Livingstone, D. N.

05/02/2019 → …

Project: Research

Research Output

60 Article
32 Chapter
19 Book
4 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

1 Citation (Scopus)

Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken

Livingstone, D., 2018, In : The AAG Review of Books. 6, 3, p. 155-159

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Ecology and the Environment

Livingstone, D. & Finnegan, D. A., Jan 2017, Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction. 2nd ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 451-462 12 p. 30

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Thesis

Making the past : history, identity, and the cultural politics of the Ulster Folk Museum

Author: Robinson, E., Dec 2000

Supervisor: Livingstone, D. N. (Supervisor) & Johnson, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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The Old World in the New: Theories of Pre-Columbian Contact in Science and Society, 1860–1920

Author: Ward, W., 2020

Supervisor: Finnegan, D. (Supervisor) & Livingstone, D. (Supervisor)