Alison Winter

Alison Winter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and of the Committee on the History of Culture. Her interests include the history of sciences of mind (and more broadly the human sciences) since the eighteenth century, the history of modern medicine, the historical construction of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the sciences and medicine, modern British history (especially Victorian studies) and historical issues of gender. Her first book developed a social and cultural history of mesmerism in Victorian Britain. Her current research focuses on the scientific study and medical extraction of memory in America and Britain.

For more information about Professor Winter, please visit her page on the Department of History site.