PhD: Coming Out of the Shadows: Women and Geology in Oxford, 1813–1914

This project explores the shifting activity of women in Oxford geology as a means of charting the changing opportunities and roles for women in science in Britain across the long nineteenth century. In 2019, the University of Oxford appointed its first female professor of geology, but women have been involved in geological researches at Oxford for more than two centuries. The project draws on the manuscript and object collections of the OUMNH both to recover the often hidden work of women in collecting, curating, and drawing specimens, and to contextualize emerging, more publicly visible, forms of work in describing, theorizing, and writing.