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Philippa Levine was an employee for whom from 1991 to 2010?
Philippa Levine Philippa Judith Amanda Levine , FRAI , FRHistS , is a historian of the British Empire , gender , race , science and technology . She has spent most of her career in the United States and has been Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities ( 2010–17 ) and Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas ( since 2017 ) at the University of Texas at Austin . Biography . Philippa Judith Amanda Levine grew up in the United Kingdom and studied at Kings College , Cambridge , from 1976 to 1979 , when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA ) degree in history ; she then completed a doctorate ( DPhil ) at St Antonys College , Oxford , from 1979 to 1984 ( supported firstly by a postgraduate studentship from Kings College , Cambridge , and then from 1980 with a Department of Education and Science research studentship ) . The DPhil was awarded for her thesis The amateur and the professional : antiquarians , historians and archaeologists in nineteenth century England , 1838–1886 . Levines first academic post was as a lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia ( 1983–85 ) . She then spent two years as a research fellow in womens studies at Flinders University of South Australia , before moving to Florida State University as an assistant professor in 1987 . Three years later , she was promoted to associate professor . In 1991 , she moved to the University of Southern California as an associate professor of history and became a full professor in 1994 . She was appointed Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 . Since 2017 , she has been Walter Prescott Webb Professor in History and Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin . Levine was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ( FRHistS ) in 1994 , and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ( FRAI ) in 2014 . Research . Levines research has focused on the history of the British Empire , race and gender , and science , medicine and society . Her publications include : - Eugenics : A Very Short Introduction ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 ) . - ( Co-edited with John Marriott ) The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories ( Farnham : Ashgate , 2012 ) . - ( Co-edited with Alison Bashford ) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2010 ) . - ( Co-edited with Susan Grayzel ) Gender , Labour , War and Empire in Modern Britain : Essays on Modern Britain ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2009 ) . - Italian translation : L’impero britannico ( Bologna : Il Mulino , 2009 ) . - The British Empire , Sunrise to Sunset ( Harlow : Longman Pearson 2007 ) . - ( Co-edited with Kevin Grant and Frank Trentmann ) Beyond Sovereignty : Britain , Empire and Transnationalism , 1860–1950 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2007 ) - ( Edited ) Gender and Empire , Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2004 ) . - Prostitution , Race and Politics : Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire ( New York : Routledge , 2003 ) . - ( Co-edited with Laura E . Nym Mayhall and Ian Christopher Fletcher ) Womens Suffrage in the British Empire : Citizenship , Nation and Race ( London : Routledge , 2000 ) . - Feminist Lives in Victorian England . Private Roles and Public Commitment ( Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1990 ) . - Victorian Feminism 1850–1900 ( London : Hutchinson Education , 1987 ) . - The Amateur and the Professional . Historians , Antiquarians and Archaeologists in Victorian England , 1838–1886 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 ) .