Associate Professor Ian Hesketh

Associate Professor of History
University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

Biography

Ian Hesketh is an Associate Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. Most broadly, his research considers the relationship between history, science, and religion with a focus on nineteenth-century Britain. He is currently working on a large-scale history of the evolutionary epic as well as a monograph on the Darwinian Revolution.

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Publications

A History of Big History

Cambridge University Press 2023
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036399

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

University of Pittsburgh Press 2022
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947080/

Victorian Jesus: J. R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity

University of Toronto Press 2017
https://utorontopress.com/9781442645776/victorian-jesus/

The Science of History in Victorian Britain

University of Pittsburgh Press 2011/2020
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822966364/

Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

University of Toronto Press 2009/2020
https://utorontopress.com/9781487526801/of-apes-and-ancestors/