Philippa Judith Amanda Levine, FRAI, FRHistS, is a historian of the British Empire, gender, race, science and technology.
Philippa Judith Amanda Levine grew up in the United Kingdom and studied at King's College, Cambridge, from 1976 to 1979, when she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in history; she then completed a doctorate (DPhil) at St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1979 to 1984 (supported firstly by a postgraduate studentship from King's College, Cambridge, and then from 1980 with a Department of Education and Science research studentship).
[1][2] The DPhil was awarded for her thesis "The amateur and the professional: antiquarians, historians and archaeologists in nineteenth century England, 1838–1886".
She was appointed Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.
[2] Levine's research has focused on the history of the British Empire, race and gender, and science, medicine and society.