Pamela Mackenzie

Dr Pamela Mackenzie is a SSHRC-funded Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Dániel Margócsy. She holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia (Art History & Theory) and has held fellowships at institutions including the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Berlin’s 4a_Lab, the Royal Society, and the Huntington Library. Her work bridges art history and the history of science/medicine.

Research Interests:

• Visual culture of medical practice, focusing on 17th/18th-century bladder stone imagery and its role in shaping surgical interventions and anatomical understanding.
• Interdisciplinary study of microscopy and cartography in colonial contexts, exploring how visual representation intersected with territorial claims and scientific discovery in the 17th century.

Awards & Fellowships:

• Lisa Jardine Fellowship (Royal Society)
• Dibner Research Fellowship (Huntington Library)
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Funding
• Mitacs Globalink Fellowship

Current Projects:

• Book manuscript: The Microscope and the Map: Representation, Knowledge, and Possession in the Seventeenth Century, analyzing visual overlaps between microscopic and territorial mapping in colonial expansion.
• Research on bladder stone imagery’s role in European medical communities’ collective anatomical understanding.