Christina Skott

Life Fellow, Magdalene College
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Christina Skott
I am a historian of European colonialism in Southeast Asia in the long nineteenth century
The generation and transmission of knowledge; scientific exchange, colonial agriculture and ecology in Southeast Asia

Lecturing and supervision for Paper 21 (Part I), 'Empires and World History from the fifteenth century to the First World War'

Contributions to MPhil in World history

Member of the editorial board, Indonesia and the Malay World

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Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG
Email
mcg27@cam.ac.uk
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South East Asia

Key Publications

'Human taxonomies: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish travel in Asia and the classification of man', Itinerario, 43(2), 2019, pp. 218-242.

'The Regio Femarum and its warrior women: Images and encounters in European sources', in Vina Lanzona & Fredrik Rettig (eds.), Women warriors in Southeast Asia. Routledge, 2019, pp. 81-112.

‘A view from the Hill: Romantic imaginings and ‘Improvement’ in early Penang’, in Yeoh Seng Guan, Peter Zabielskis & Kat Farland (eds.), Penang and its Networks of Knowledge. Areca Books, 2017, pp. 104-130.

Editor, Interpreting diversity: Europe and the Malay world. Routledge, 2016.

With Rotem Kowner, ’East Asians in Linnaean taxonomy: sources and implications of racial images’, in Rotem Kowner & Walter Demel (eds.), Race and Racism in Modern East Asia. Vol. II: Interactions, Nationalism, Gender and Lineage. Brill: 2015, pp. 23-54.

Editor, special issue of Indonesia and the Malay world 42 (123), 2014; Editorial: 'Europe and the Malay World, pp. 129-140.

 'Linnaeus and the troglodyte: early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man', in Indonesia and the Malay world 42 (123), 2014, pp. 141-169.

‘Expanding Flora's Empire. Linnaean science and the Swedish East India Company', in Kirsten McKenzie & Robert Aldrich (eds.), The Routledge History of Western Empires. Routledge, 2013, pp. 238-254.

’Ask about everything’: Clas Fredrik Hornstedt in Java, 1783-84’, in Tara Alberts & D. R. M. Irving (eds.), Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World. I. B. Tauris, 2013, pp. 161-202

'Climate, ecology and cultivation in early Penang', Proceedings of the PIO Conference, 2012, pp. 99-110.

 ‘Imagined centrality:  Sir Stamford Raffles and the birth of modern Singapore’, in Karl Hack & J-L Margolin (eds.) with Karine Delaye, Singapore from Temasek to the 21st century: Reinventing the Global City. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2010, pp. 153-182.

 

'The VOC and Swedish Natural history: the transmission of scientific knowledge in the eighteenth century’, in Siegfried Huigen et. al. (eds.), Dutch trading companies as knowledge networks, Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, vol. 13. Brill, 2010, pp. 361-392.

 

Editor: C. F. Hornstedt: Brev från Batavia: En resa till Ostindien 1783-1786. Helsinki & Stockholm: Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland & Atlantis, 2008, 335pp.

Articles: ’En resa till Ostindien’, pp. 29-80; With Kees Rookmaaker: ’Han var mera egentlig zoolog än botanicus’, pp. 81-98.