Ann Campbell

Ann Campbell completed her PhD in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University Bloomington. Her dissertation explores the scientific career of 18h-century French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton in comparative anatomy, animal husbandry, and mineralogy. As an 18th-centuryist and a historian of geology, she has also explored the coproduction of systems of Earth history and political economy in the Scottish Enlightenment through the works of James Hutton and Adam Smith. Her work at the Beckman Center will extend this project to further explore Hutton’s natural philosophy and theories of matter and heat to connect Hutton’s theory of Earth history to his epistemology.