Efram Sera-Shriar

Efram Sera-Shriar

Teaching Associate Professor


  1. 2024
  2. E-pub ahead of print

    Nineteenth-Century Japanese and British Science in Context: An Introduction to Transnational-Comparative Studies

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, Lightman, B. & Kikuchi, Y., 21 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. p. 1-11 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. E-pub ahead of print

    Anthropological Glimpses of Japan in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 1 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. p. 1-18 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    From Museumization to Decolonization: Fostering Critical Dialogues in the History of Science with a Haida Eagle Mask

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2023, In: British Journal for the History of Science. 56, 3, p. 309-328 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. 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 18 p.

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

  7. 2022
  8. 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

  9. Published

    Psychic Investigators: Anthropology, Modern Spiritualism, & Credible Witnessing in the Late Victorian Age

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2022, University of Pittsburgh Press. 296 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  10. 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

  11. Spiritualism and Science Studies for the Twenty-First Century

    Ferguson, C. & Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2022, In: Aries - Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. 22, 1, p. 1-11

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. 2021
  13. Constructing the “Jewish Type”: Anthropometric Measurement, Composite Photography, and Anthropology in the Late Victorian Age

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2021, In: Nuncius. 36, p. 532-567

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. 2020
  15. Credible Witnessing: A. R. Wallace, Spiritualism, and a “New Branch of Anthropology

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2020, In: Modern Intellectual History. 17, p. 357-384

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. 2019
  17. The Scandalous Affair of the Anthropological Review: Hyde Clarke, James Hunt, and British Anthropology in the 1860s

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2019, Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines. Lightman, B. & Zon, B. (eds.). New York: Routledge, p. 135-157

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

  18. 2018
  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

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

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  23. 2017
  24. Published

    Race

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2017, Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press, p. 48-76

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

  25. 2015
  26. 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

  27. Published

    Arctic Observers: Richard King, Monogenism and the Historicisation of Inuit through Travel Narratives

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2015, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 51, p. 23-31

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Human History and Deep Time in Nineteenth-Century British Sciences: An Introduction

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2015, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 51, p. 19-22

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. 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

  30. 2014
  31. Published

    What is Armchair Anthropology?: Observational Practices in Nineteenth-Century British Human Sciences

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2014, In: History of the Human Sciences. 27, p. 180-194

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. 2013
  33. Published

    Observing Human Difference: James Hunt, Thomas Huxley, and Competing Disciplinary Strategies in the 1860s

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2013, In: Annals of Science. 70, p. 461-491

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    The Making of British Anthropology, 1813-1871

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  35. 2011
  36. Published

    Ethnology in the Metropole: Robert Knox, Robert Gordon Latham and Local Sites of Observational Training

    Sera-Shriar, Efram, 2011, In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 42, p. 486-496

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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