Efram Sera-Shriar

Efram Sera-Shriar

Teaching Associate Professor


  1. Historicizing Belief: E.B. Tylor, Primitive Culture and the Evolution of Religion

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2018, Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences. University of Pittsburgh, p. 68-90

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  2. Civilizing the Natives: Richard King and his Ethnographic Writings on Indigenous Northerners

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2018, Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History. University of British Columbia, p. 39-59

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  3. Photographic Plates and Spirit Fakes: Remembering Harry Price’s Investigation of William Hope’s Spirit Photography at its Centenary

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2022, In: Science Museum Group Journal. 17

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2013, Pickering & Chatto Publishers.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  5. From the Beginning: Human History Theories in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2018, Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences. University of Pittsburgh, p. 1-13

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Anthropometric Portraiture and Victorian Anthropology: Situating Francis Galton’s Photographic Work in the Late 1870s

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2015, In: History of Science. 53, p. 155-179

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Seeing is (Dis)believing: John Tyndall, Scientific Naturalism, and the Role of Visual Epistemologies and Scientific Testimony in Victorian Spirit Investigations

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2022, In: Aries - Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. 22, 1, p. 42-63

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Historicizing Humans: Deep Time, Evolution and Race in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2018, University of Pittsburgh.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Robert Knox: The Embittered Scottish Anatomist and his Controversial Race Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2023, Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914. Fyfe, A. & Kidd, C. C. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 151-167

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Tales from Patagonia: Phillip Parker King and Early Ethnographic Observation in British Ethnology, 1826-1830

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2015, In: Studies in Travel Writing. 19, p. 204-223

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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