Rob started following the work of Mark Manger, London School of Economics, International Relations.
Rob started following the work of Nadine Dolby, Purdue University, Curriculum and Instruction.
Rob started following the work of Helen Fones, Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Centre of Plant Science.
Post-Doc, Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion
Harvard University, History of Science
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Sonderforschungsbereich 640: Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Centre for History of Emotions
About
2012-13 Dahlem Research School/Marie Curie COFUND Fellow, Excellence Cluster 'Languages of Emotion', Freie Universitaet Berlin.
Rob Boddice is an historian of Victorian science and society, focusing on the Victorian moral economy after the Darwinian turn. He is principally concerned with the renegotiation of compassion (including the related emotions of sympathy and empathy), as the moral register shifted from the context of the divine to that of the human. His research explores the emotional profile of late nineteenth-century humanism and its impact on society and social policy.
Broadly, Boddice’s prior research has focused on the history of human-animal relations, with particular emphasis on the moral status of animals and on theories of the human cachet of distinction. He received his Ph.D from the University of York (UK) in 2006, with a thesis entitled 'Beastly Pleasures: Blood Sports in England, c.1776-1876'. His book – a substantial extension and revision of the thesis – was published in 2009, on the theme of anthropocentrism and the emergence of animal cruelty ethics in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. An edited collection of essays followed (2011), exploring the concept of anthropocentrism from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Boddice has held teaching positions at the University of York, McGill University (Montreal), and at the European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin), and was post-doctoral fellow in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2010. In 2011 he was Visiting Research Fellow at Humboldt's Centre for British Studies and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. In 2012 he will be a visiting fellow at the Wellcome-Trust funded Birkbeck Pain Project in London.
