McGill University

Nicholas Dew (DPhil, Oxford) is an Associate Professor in the History Department at McGill University, where he teaches early modern history and history of science. Before coming to McGill in 2004 he held post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge, and in Paris. His work is on France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, particularly the interaction between the sciences and early colonialism. He is the author of Orientalism in Louis XIV's France (Oxford University Press, 2009), and the co-editor, with James Delbourgo, of Science and Empire in the Atlantic World (Routledge, 2008). He is currently working on a book on the circum-Atlantic dimensions of French science in the period c. 1650-1760. He is a founder member of the French Atlantic History Group in Montreal, and in recent years has run the McGill History and Philosophy of Science program and speaker series.

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