Research Fellows
Lydia Wilson
Research interests
Medieval Arabic philosophy including genres of scientific and philosophical texts; preservation of recent material heritage of the sciences; anthropology of conflict in the Middle East.
Lydia is the postdoctoral fellow on the Scientific Heritage project in the Department, a fellow at ARTIS Center for Conflict Studies, and co-editor of the Cambridge Literary Review. She has been a journalist, writing for publications from Time magazine to the Times Literary Supplement.
She is currently working on publications in all three of the research areas listed above.
Selected publications
Edited volumes
- (With B. Jardine) Cambridge Literary Review vols I & II, 1–5. 2009–2011.
Reviews
- Review of Julija Sukys' Silence is Death, in Times Literary Supplement, 24 September 2007.
- Review of Bernard Rougier's Everyday Jihad: The rise of militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon, in Times Literary Supplement, 7 July 2009.
- Review of Miss Tully, Letters written during a ten years' residence at the Court of Tripoli, 1783–1795, in Times Literary Supplement 9 September 2011.
- Review of A. Ben-Zaken, Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism, in Times Literary Supplement 2 December 2011.
Forthcoming
- 'Scientific Heritage in Cambridge', Proceedings of the XII Universeum Meeting, Padua 2011 (2012).
- 'Intangible histories and the invisible technician', University Museums and Collections Journal (2012).
- (Ed. With N. Jardine) Special issue of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 'Recent material heritage of the sciences' (2013).
In preparation
- (2012): Review of A. Ben-Zaken, Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism, in British Journal for the History of Science.
- (2012): 'Iraqi Kurdistan', in London Review of Books.
- (2012): (ed.) Cambridge Literary Review, vol. III, 6–8.
- (2013): 'A Laboratory Move: packing up a discipline, past and present', in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science.