Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge on the history of the life sciences of the eighteenth century, a master’s degree in the history of nineteenth-century science, and a bachelor’s degree in experimental physics.
She is the author of three books: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?, and The Spirit of Inquiry (both OUP); and now her first trade project, Bluestockings, about women’s lives in the eighteenth century, published by John Murray in the UK and W. W. Norton in the US. Bluestockings was named one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024.
Susannah is now working on a new project, again for John Murray.