Paula Larsson | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Mary Lemessurier Award, James Burns Scholarship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor Mark Harrison |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Medicine,colonialism,Canadian history |
| Institutions | Uncomfortable Oxford |
| Website | https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/paula-larsson |
Paula Larsson is a Canadian historian of medical and colonial history at the University of Oxford. She is most notable for her research into the history of eugenics,social darwinism,the First Nations of Canada,and most prominently the history of anti-vaccine conspiracies in Canada. [1] [2] She is a winner of both The James Burn Scholarship and the Mary Lemessurier Award.
Paula Larsson grew up in a large family based in Calgary,Canada. She was once a volunteer with a charity organisation known as Feed the Hungry. [3]
Larsson's activities largely involve public engagement with local history in Oxford. She was one of the developers of the Oxford and Empire Network,and the co-founder of Uncomfortable Oxford. [4] She is also a writer for The Conversation,where she contributes to the history of vaccine hesitancy in the English speaking world,and topics such as racism within anti-vaccinations movements, [5] [6] the polio vaccine heist of 1959, [7] and the recycling of anti-vaccine talking points from the nineteenth century to the present day. [8] She is also a contributor to the Canadian Eugenics Archive. [9]
Larsson was one the president of the University of Oxford's Canadian students society. [3]