George Sebastian Rousseau (born February 23, 1941)[1] is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom.

The endowed George Rousseau Lecture, delivered each year by a distinguished cultural or intellectual historian, is given annually in Magdalen College Oxford University.

[4] Rousseau is a cultural historian[5] who works in the interface of literature and medicine, and emphasizes the relevance of imaginative materials - literature, especially diaries and biography, art and architecture, music - for the public understanding of medicine, past and present.

[8] It endorsed the historical and contextual methodologies Rousseau had been advocating for decades in the study of literature and other disciplines.

[10] The Edinburgh project brought together scholars in the humanities and sciences, especially literature and philosophy, medicine and the neurosciences, and published a multi-volume history of distributed cognition from the Greeks to the present time.