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Qualifications

• BA (Hons), University of Wollongong, Australia (1995)
• PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia (2000)
  

Biographical statement

Ivan Crozier is a Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit. He is also Reviews Editor (Human Sciences), for Metascience (2004 - ) and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2007 - ). He was previously a lecturer at the Sydney University Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science (1999 – 2000), and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL (2000 – 2003). He has held fellowships at the Medical Humanities Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (2001), and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (2002), and has held visiting research positions at the History Department of Umeå University (2006) and at the Polish Academy of Sciences Historical Institute in Warsaw (2005).

Selected Publications

Books

Editor, with Christopher Forth, Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2005.

Editor, Cultural History of the Human Body, volume six, 1920-2000 (editors-in-chief, Linda Kalof and William Bynum) Berg Publishers, forthcoming 2008. 

Editor, and author of a 40,000 word critical introduction to, Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion [1897], London, Palgrave, 2007.

The Trial of Ronald True: the place of psychiatry in a 1922 murder trial, London, Palgrave, forthcoming 2009.

Selected Articles

“Havelock Ellis, Eonism and the Patients’ Discourse,” History of Psychiatry, 11, 2000, pp. 125-54.

“William Acton and the History of Sexuality: The Professional and Medical Contexts,” Journal of Victorian Culture, 5, 2000, pp. 1-27.

“Taking Prisoners: Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud, and the politics of constructing the homosexual, 1897-1951,” Social History of Medicine, 13, 2000, pp. 447-66.

“The Medical Construction of Homosexuality and its Relation to the Law in Nineteenth-Century England,” Medical History, 45, 2001, pp. 61-82.

“‘Rough winds to shake the darling buds of May’: a note on William Acton’s conception of childhood sexuality,” Journal of Family History, 26, 2001, pp. 411-20.

“Becoming a sexologist: Norman Haire, the 1929 London World League for Sexual Reform Congress, and organising medical knowledge about sex in interwar England,” History of Science, 39, 2001, pp. 299-329.

“James Kiernan and the Responsible Pervert,” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 25, 2002, pp. 331-350.

“‘All the World’s a Stage’: Dora Russell, Norman Haire, and the London Congress of the World League for Sexual Reform, 1929,” Journal for the History of Sexuality, 12, 2003, pp. 16-37.

La sexologie et la définition du ‘normal’ entre 1860 et 1900,” Cahiers du genre, 34, 2003, pp. 17-37.

“Philosophy in the English Boudoir: contextualising Havelock Ellis’ discourses about sexuality, with particular reference to his writing on algolagnia,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13, 2004, pp. 275-305.

“Sexuality” in Stefan Berger (ed.) Blackwell's Companion to Nineteenth Century European History, Oxford, 2005

“Nineteenth-century British psychiatric writing about homosexuality before Havelock Ellis: the missing story,” Journal for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, forthcoming, January, 2008.

“Havelock Ellis, Eugenicist,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, accepted, forthcoming, 2008.
 

Current research projects

The Trial of Ronald True: The Place of Psychiatry in a 1922 Murder Trial.
Culture and Psychiatry: The Case of Koro.
M’Naghten and Murder in Colonial East Africa.
The Sexual Body in History and Society.
Criminal Responsibility and Psychiatry (a comparative international project to be published in a collection edited with Harry Oosterhuis of Maastricht University and Richard Wetzell at the German historical Institute, Washington DC, based on a series of conferences in Edinburgh, Padua and Lisbon).

Teaching

Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (MSc)
History of Psychiatry (MSc)
Science and Society 1Ah (UG)

Supervision areas

• history of psychiatry
• science and law
• sociology of scientific knowledge
• medical humanities
• psychiatry and culture
• history of the body