Doctor Nathan Bossoh

Dr Nathan Bossoh

Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellow)

Research interests

  • Science, belief, and global knowledge exchange in the British Empire  
  • Medical and scientific knowledge in modern African history 
  • Museum imperial legacies, material culture, collections and decolonisation

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Dr Nathan Bossoh is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Southampton. His main research intersects around the themes of science, medicine and African collections from 1750 to the present. Between September 2022 and September 2023 he was the African Collections Research Curator at the (London) Science Museum. Nathan is Co-Curator of The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained a display hosted in the Wellcome Collection gallery between July 2024 and February 2025. For more info see  www.nathanbossoh.com