Our Staff and Editorial Board

Rob Iliffe is currently Professor of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and is the editorial director of the Newton Mint Papers Project and the AHRC Newton Papers Project (1999-2015). He is author of A Very Short Introduction to Isaac Newton and Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton (2017) as well as the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Newton (2016).

Scott Mandelbrote is presently Official Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge and has published widely in early modern history. He is the author or co-author of various scholarly catalogues, including Footprints of the Lion: Isaac Newton at Work (Cambridge, 2001), which accompanied a major exhibition of Newton’s work at Cambridge University Library.

Staff Members

Michael Hawkins (Technical Director) is responsible for all the technical aspects of the Newton Mint Papers Project and the Newton Project, including helping to establish their encoding policies, designing of their websites and developing their underlying infrastructure. He completed his PhD on Thomas Willis’s neurocartography of the passions in 2004 at the Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London and has worked in the Digital Humanities for over fifteen years. He has served as Technical Director of numerous digital humanities projects, including Darwin Correspondence Project (Cambridge University Library), Casebooks (University of Cambridge), the Wordsworth Project (University of Newcastle), the Cambridge Platonism Sourcebook (University of Cambridge), Livingstone Online (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL), and the British Living Standards Project (University of Sussex).

Cornelis J. (Kees-Jan) Schilt (Research Associate) holds degrees in Physics & Astrophysics (BSc) and History & Philosophy of Science (MSc) from Utrecht University, and recently completed his DPhil in History of Science with Rob Iliffe at the University of Oxford on a thesis titled “Prophecy, History and Method: How and Why Isaac Newton studied Chronology”. His main focus is on Newton’s reading and writing practices as they emerge from his chronological studies, combining various approaches from classical and digital humanities. He specializes in digital editing, early modern history, history of science & religion, and in particular Newton’s life and works. He is overall Transcription Manager for the Newton Project and has also been involved in the transcription of several of Newton’s historical and religious manuscripts. He blogs on all things Newtonian on Corpus Newtonicum.

Alice Marples (Research Associate) is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and King’s College London, where she completed her PhD in 2016. Since then she has been Shreeve Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester and a Lisa Jardine History of Science Grant Holder at the Royal Society. Her research focuses on interrelations between manuscript, human and natural resources in the linked worlds of commerce and scholarship in Britain between c.1600 and 1850. She has published widely on a range of related topics, including scientific administration in the early eighteenth century (Historical Research, 2019), and has articles forthcoming in Notes and Records of the Royal Society and the Journal of the History of Collections. She is in the process of completing her first monograph provisionally entitled The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Yvonne Santacreu (Project Manager) has extensive experience managing digital assets having worked for Universal Pictures International as a DVD producer. Previously she worked for World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC and Valencia, Spain and for Pesticide Action Network in San Francisco as a researcher and programme coordinator involved in international policy and environmental education campaigns. She has worked in the Digital Humanities since 2006. She has been a transcriber and encoder for the Newton Project since 2006, Project Manager for the Enlightening Science Project (2009) and Assistant Editor at The Casebooks Project from 2014 to 2018. She is also currently working for the Wordsworth Project in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University.

Advisors

Ruth Selman is Principal Early Modern Records Specialist in the Collections Expertise and Engagement Department at The National Archives. She has worked there for over 20 years in a variety of roles, including accessions, digitisation, business planning and knowledge management. She specialises in 16th–18th century diplomatic records and the use of wills to map social networks.