Anna Marie Roos
historian of early modern English science
Anna Marie Roos is a historian of early modern English science, noted for her research on the early Royal Society. She is an emeritus professor in the School of Humanities and Heritage at the University of Lincoln, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records. She is also an affiliate of the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Cambridge.
Career
Anna Marie Roos obtained a PhD in history from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1997. She was an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth from 1999 to 2006, The Lister Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2012, and a research associate at the Museum for the History of Science in Oxford from 2009 to 2013. Roos was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, Huntington Fellow and Beinecke Fellow (declined) in 2017.
In 2013, Roos joined the University of Lincoln, where she remained until her retirement in July 2024. She served as editor-in-chief of Notes and Records from 2018 to 2024.
Roos was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2013. She is also a fellow of the Linnean Society of London and the Royal Historical Society.
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