Linda Andersson Burnett

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas

E-mail:: linda.andersson-burnett@idehist.uu.se
Visiting address:: Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
Postal address:: Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

I am an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Science and Ideas. I research natural history travel, colonial collecting, early citizen science, and the history of racism.

I am the PI of the research team: Instructing Natural History: Nature, People, Empire: https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/

I am one of the founders of the international consortium Women in Natural History Museums and Collections: https://womnh.hypothese

Keywords

Linnaean natural history
transnational history
colonial history
civic science
museum history

Biography

Co-founder of the international consortium WOMNH: Women in Natural History Museums and Collections, 2024

Collaboration with the Swedish Museums of World Cultures, "Att väcka föremålen till liv – och utmana museernas koloniala historier," 2024-2026.

Nominated for AcademiaNet, an expert database for outstanding female academics, by the Swedish Research Council, 2022.

Member of the Jury for the History Award 'Stora historiepriset', From 2022.

Wallenberg Academy Fellow, 2019-present

Member of the Young Academy of Sweden (Sveriges Unga Akademi), 2020-2025

The Swedish Delegate in the International Young Academies Science Advice Structure, 2021-ongoing.

Leader of interdisciplinary research group on Nordic Colonialism at Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, 2014-2019.

Research

I specialise in the study of Linnaean natural history, with a focus on the Swedish and Scottish Enlightenments. My research explores early modern travel, the practices of collecting, and the development of the concept of 'race' during this period.

I am the principal investigator of the research group Instructing Natural History: Nature, People, Empire. It includes scholars and research projects funded by the Swedish Research Council, Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Wallenberg Academy Fellowship) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. We investigate the history of instructions in relation to natural history travelling and collecting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. You can read about our research and activities here: https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/

I am one of the co-founder of an international consortium WOMNH, which promotes collaborations between researchers and museum professionals. Our consortium examines the roles women played in the making of natural history collections and museums, highlighting their often overlooked presence and invisible labour: https://womnh.hypotheses.org/

Publications

Selection of publications

Recent publications

All publications

Articles in journal

Articles, review/survey

Review of Gerard Carruther's Robert Burns

Andersson Burnett, Linda

Part of International Review of Scottish Studies, 2008

Books

A beginner's guide to Swedish academia

Andersson Burnett, Linda; Bender, Frida; Schottenius Cullhed, Sigrid; Delemotte, Lucie et al.

Sveriges unga akademi, 2022
Blind Ossian’s Fingal: Fragments and Controversy

Macpherson, James; Burnett, Allan; Andersson Burnett, Linda

Luath Press, 2011

Chapters in book

Sámi indigeneity in nineteenth-century Swedish and British intellectual debates

Andersson Burnett, Linda

Part of The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History, Routledge, 2021
The Edinburgh connection: Linnaean natural history, Scottish moral philosophy and the colonial implications of enlightenment thought

Andersson Burnett, Linda; Buchan, Bruce

Part of Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge, p. 161-186, Voltaire Foundation, 2018
The ‘Lapland Giantess’ in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition

Andersson Burnett, Linda

Part of Concurrent Imaginaries, Postcolonial Worlds, p. 123-143, Brill Academic Publishers, 2017
- DOI for The ‘Lapland Giantess’ in Britain: Reading Concurrences in a Victorian Ethnographic Exhibition
Selling the Sami: Nordic Stereotypes and Participatory Media in Georgian Britain

Andersson Burnett, Linda

Part of Communicating the North, p. 171-196, Ashgate, 2013
‘Between Empire and "The North": Scottish Identity in the Nineteenth Century'

Andersson Burnett, Linda; Newby, Andrew

Part of Parting the Mists, Historicus, 2008

Collections (editor)

Knowing Savagery: Special Issue of History of the Human Sciences 32:4

Andersson Burnett, Linda; Buchan, Bruce

Sage Publications, 2019
Exploring Nordic Colonialisms: Special Issue for Scandinavian Studies

Andersson Burnett, Linda; Höglund, Johan

University of Illinois Press, 2019
Archipelagos: poems from Writing the North

Andersson Burnett, Linda

University of Edinburgh, 2014

Conference papers

'"Unionist Nationalism” and The National Museum of Scotland, c. 1847-1866’

Andersson Burnett, Linda; Newby, Andrew

Part of NaMu, Making National Museums, 2007

Monograph doctoral thesis

Northern Noble Savages?: Edward Daniel Clarke and British Primitivist Narratives on Scotland and Scandinavia, c. 1760-1822

Andersson Burnett, Linda

2012