The First Modern Risk

Julia Moses
Release date:June 2018
Language:English
Pages:332
ISBN:9781108426503
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Price:€ 99,70


Julia Moses

Julia Moses studied at Barnard College/Columbia University (New York), Oxford and Cambridge (as a Gates Scholar). Before joining the Department of History at Sheffield in September 2011, she was a lecturer at Pembroke and Brasenose Colleges, Oxford. She has been a visiting scholar at the Berlin Collegium for the Comparative History of Europe at the Free University; a professeur invitée at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; an International Guest Lecturer at the University of Bielefeld; and, a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Her main research interests lie in the history of social problems and policy in Western Europe, with a particular focus on Britain, Germany and Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published on three main strands of her research: the history of private law, and especially torts; transnational history; and, the history of ideas about ‘risk’. She is especially keen to bridge disciplinary boundaries, and her work draws on insights from law, anthropology, politics and sociology. She is a co-chair of the Council for European Studies research network on Political Economy and Welfare and co-convenor of the Risk, Policy and Law research cluster in the Centre for Medical Humanities at Sheffield.