Professor Anna Marie Roos

Anna Marie Roos earned her PhD from the University of Colorado. She has taught at Salisbury University (USA), the University of Minnesota, and the University of Oxford.  She is currently Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Lincoln (UK).

Roos has been a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; a Fellow at the Huntington Library; a John Rylands Fellow at the University of Manchester; and Beinecke Fellow at Yale (declined).  Roos was the recipient of the John C. Thackray Medal for her work in the history of natural history, and in 2023, she delivered the Gideon de Laune Medal Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. In 2024, she delivered the Bynum Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine. She is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Society of Antiquaries of London. Roos was the Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science from 2018-2024. Author of 10 books and editions, and several journal articles and book chapters, her latest book is Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur (Oxford University Press, 2021). Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, the Royal Society of London, the Wellcome Trust, the McKnight Foundation, the Society of Authors, and the Lincoln Record Society. Her project at Clare Hall is an analysis of correspondence between art critic John Ruskin and physicist Oliver Lodge concerning sky colour and cloud formation for a book entitled Blue Sky Thinking contracted with Oxford University Press.