Thomas Anderson

  • Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2010

Dr. Thomas Anderson is an Assistant Professor of History at Merrimack College

Education & Training

  • PhD Binghamton, 2009

Representative Publications

Reassembling the Strange: Naturalists, Missionaries, and the Environment of Nineteenth Century Madagascar  (Lexington, 2018)

“Converting the Hospital: British Missionaries and Medicine in 19th-Century Madagascar,” Itinerario, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2017): 1–16.

“Aepyornis as Moa: Giants Birds and Global Connections in 19th-Century Science,” The British Journal for the History of Science Vol 46, No. 4 (2013): 675-693. 

Research Interests

  • Environmental History
  • History of Science
  • Indian Ocean History
  • Ottoman History
  • World History