Philippa Levine
Professor — DPhil, Oxford University
Professor; Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas; Director, Program in British Studies

Contact
- E-mail: philippa@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-232-1236
- Office: HRC 3.202B
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Philippa Levine grew up in the United Kingdom, and came to the U.S. in 1987. She taught at the University of Southern California before joining the UT faculty in 2010. She has also taught in her native Britain and in Australia.
Research Interests
British Empire; intersections of race and gender; science, medicine and society
Awards, Honors
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences (2018); Marta Sutton Weeks External Senior Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2017-18); Guggenheim Fellowship (2007-8); Resident Fellow, Bellagio Center, Rockefeller Foundation (2002); various visiting fellowships in Australia, Britain, Ireland, and Canada, plus research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Institutes of Health
Courses
HIS 365G • Science, Ethics, & Society
39770 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM JGB 2.218
CDE
HI
HIS 322S • Hist Of Genetics/Eugenics
38650 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM JGB 2.218
E
HIS 365G • Science, Ethics, & Society
38430 • Fall 2019
Meets MW 4:00PM-5:30PM JGB 2.218
CDE
HI
HIS 362G • The World Of The Victorians
39070 • Spring 2019
Meets MWF 9:00AM-10:00AM MEZ B0.306
GCII
(also listed as EUS 346)
HIS 322S • Hist Of Genetics/Eugenics
39110 • Fall 2018
Meets MW 4:00PM-5:30PM RLP 0.102
E
HIS 362G • England In The 20th Century
39580 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CLA 0.126
GC
(also listed as EUS 346)
HIS 306N • History Of Human Sexuality
38970 • Fall 2016
Meets MW 4:00PM-5:30PM GAR 0.102
(also listed as WGS 301)
HIS 306N • History Of Human Sexuality
38395 • Spring 2016
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:30PM GAR 0.102
(also listed as WGS 301)
HIS 365G • Science, Ethics, & Society
38720 • Fall 2015
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:30PM UTC 3.112
CDE
HI
HIS 394H • Intro To Historical Inquiry
39950 • Fall 2014
Meets W 9:00AM-12:00PM GAR 4.100
HIS 362G • World Of The Victorians
40060 • Spring 2014
Meets MW 3:30PM-5:00PM UTC 3.112
GCII
(also listed as EUS 346)
HIS 394H • Intro To Historical Inquiry
40210 • Fall 2013
Meets TH 9:00AM-12:00PM GAR 4.100
HIS 365G • Science, Ethics, & Society
39585 • Spring 2012
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM UTC 3.124
CDE
HI
UGS 303 • Histories Of Race And Sex
64315-64325 • Fall 2011
Meets MW 3:00PM-4:00PM UTC 3.112
HIS 362G • England In The 20th Century
39820 • Spring 2011
Meets MW 3:30PM-5:00PM UTC 3.132
GCII
(also listed as EUS 346)
HIS 362G • The World Of Victorians
39435 • Fall 2010
Meets MW 3:30PM-5:00PM UTC 4.112
GCII
Publications
The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset
The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires
The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories
Philippa Levine and John Mariott
The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories
2012
Ashgate
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain. Essays on Modern Britain
Philippa Levine
Gender, Labour, War and Empire in Modern Britain. Essays on Modern Britain
co-edited with Susan Grayzel, Basingstoke
2009
Palgrave Macmillion
The British Empire, Sunrise to Sunset
Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1860-1950
Philippa Levine
Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1860-1950
2007
co-edited with Kevin Grant and Frank Trentman
Palgrave Macmillan
Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
Philippa Levine
Gender and Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
2004
Palgrave Macmillan
Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public Commitment
Philippa Levine
Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Private Roles and Public Commitment
2004
Figueroa Press
Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
Philippa Levine
Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
2003
Routledge
Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race
Philippa Levine
Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race
2000
Co-edited with Laura Mayhall and Ian Fletcher
Routledge
Victorian Feminism 1850-1900
The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886
Philippa Levine
The Amateur and the Professional. Historians, Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England, 1838-1886
1986
Cambridge University Press
Current Graduate Students
Stefanie Carter
Studies Victorian civic culture. Her interests include S=Social and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Great Britain, particularly in regards to class and labor relations. Comparative history of working-class, public history, and material culture in modern Europe.
Sandy Chang
Studies gender and migration in Britain’s south-east Asian colonies.
Eddie Watson
Julia Stryker
Fieldwork & Research
Professor Levine's main current research project is a history of nakedness.
Forthcoming with Oxford University Press: Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction
Forthcoming with Bloomsbury The British Empire: Critical Readings (4-volumes)
News
Still Invisible: Women, Gender and Decolonization
The Library of Congress
July 15, 2009
Not Even Past
February 2013
Bad Blood: Newly Discovered Documents on US Funded Syphilis Experiments
Not Even Past
October 9, 2011
Americans and The Royal Wedding
Not Even Past
April 20, 2011
American Historical Association
March 2010
Madeleine Blair: Nobody's Victim
Canadian Broadcasting Company
April 23, 2013:
2008