Jessica Ratcliff

Jessica Ratcliff

Cornell University

History of Science

jratcliff@ias.edu

Research Statement: Jessica Ratcliff is researching the relationship between science and colonial capitalism in nineteenth-century Britain and its empire. Her current book project, Natural Monopoly, is about the East India Company’s library and museum in London. Here, she offers a new perspective on the political economy of Britain’s “second scientific revolution.”

While at IAS:
Working Remotely

Full Year