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Surekha Davies
Historian of Science, Speaker, Historical Monster Consultant
Surekha Davies is a British historian of science, a speaker, and a historical monster consultant. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (2016). Her latest book is Humans: A Monstrous History (2025). Her writing has also appeared in the LA Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Reactor, Science, and Nature. Sign up for her free newsletter, Notes from a Science Historian, for 2-3 issues a month on history, science, art, culture, and monsters, and for subscriber-only content including an excerpt from Humans: A Monstrous History: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=aeon
