Research outputs
Selected research outputs
- Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939 (Journal article - 2025)
- Segregated Species Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948 (Book - 2024)
- Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas: David and Mary Bruce, Vernacular Experts, and Unakane in Rural Zululand c. 1880s-1900s (Chapter - 2024)
- Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border (Journal article - 2023)
- Preventing Plague, Bringing Balance: Wildlife Protection as Public Health in the Interwar Union of South Africa (Journal article - 2021)
2026
Brad Bolman, <i>Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles</i>
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2026). Brad Bolman, <i>Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles</i>. Social History of Medicine. doi:10.1093/shm/hkag018
2025
Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939
Skotnes-Brown, J., & da Silva, M. A. D. (2025). Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES, 80(4), 325-346. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrae041
Introduction: Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies
Skotnes-Brown, J., & Lynteris, C. (2025). Introduction: Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES, 80(4), 299-308. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrae042
Roundtable: Meredith McKittrick, 'Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid'
Brown, J., Tischler, J., Schnegg, M., Sparks, S., & McKittrick, M. (2025). Roundtable: Meredith McKittrick, 'Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid'. Retrieved from https://networks.h-net.org/
Of Elephants and Men
Brown, J. (2025). Of Elephants and Men. HISTORY TODAY, 75(8). Retrieved from https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/saving-south-africas-san-peoples
Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2025). Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships. BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 58(4), 774-776. doi:10.1017/S0007087425100952
Review: <i>Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria</i>, by Saheed Aderinto
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2025). Review: <i>Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria</i>, by Saheed Aderinto. Animal History, 1(1), 91-93. doi:10.1525/ah.2024.2271873
2024
Review: Martin Kalb. Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa
Brown, J. (2024). Review: Martin Kalb. Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa. Retrieved from https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60776
Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2024). Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas. In Rural Disease Knowledge (pp. 41-71). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003438984-3
Segregated Species Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2024). Segregated Species Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948. JHU Press.
To Kill Two Birds With One Stone
Brown, J. (2024). To Kill Two Birds With One Stone. Ourlongwalk.com. Retrieved from https://www.ourlongwalk.com/p/to-kill-two-birds-with-one-stone
Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas: David and Mary Bruce, Vernacular Experts, and Unakane in Rural Zululand c. 1880s-1900s
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2024). Extracting Blood, Flies, and Ideas: David and Mary Bruce, Vernacular Experts, and Unakane in Rural Zululand c. 1880s-1900s. In Rural Disease Knowledge Anthropological and Historical Perspectives (pp. 41-71). doi:10.4324/9781003438984-3
Scurrying Seafarers
Brown, J. (2024). Scurrying Seafarers. Retrieved from https://www.thecivilian.co/all-articles/arts-humanities/scurrying-seafarers
Segregated Species
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2024). Segregated Species. doi:10.56021/9781421448565
2023
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches
da Silva, M. A. D., & Skotnes-Brown, J. (2023). Emerging Infectious Diseases and Disease Emergence: Critical, Ontological and Epistemological Approaches. ISIS, 114, S26-S49. doi:10.1086/726979
Lisa T. Sarasohn. <i>Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin</i>.
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2023). Lisa T. Sarasohn. <i>Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin</i>.. The American Historical Review, 128(2), 990-991. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhad180
Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2023). Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border. JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HISTORY, 18(1), 108-130. doi:10.1017/S1740022822000158
From the White Man&rsquo;s Grave to the White Man&rsquo;s Home? Experiencing &lsquo;Tropical Africa&rsquo; at the 1924&ndash;25 British Empire Exhibition
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2023). From the White Man&rsquo;s Grave to the White Man&rsquo;s Home? Experiencing &lsquo;Tropical Africa&rsquo; at the 1924&ndash;25 British Empire Exhibition. Science Museum Group Journal, 11(11). doi:10.15180/191101
Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health
da Silva, M. A. D., French, O., Keck, F., & Skotnes-Brown, J. (2023). Introduction: Disease Reservoirs: From Colonial Medicine to One Health. MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 42(4), 311-324. doi:10.1080/01459740.2023.2214950
2021
Preventing Plague, Bringing Balance: Wildlife Protection as Public Health in the Interwar Union of South Africa
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2021). Preventing Plague, Bringing Balance: Wildlife Protection as Public Health in the Interwar Union of South Africa. BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 95(4), 464-496. doi:10.1353/bhm.2021.0054
Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2021). Rock | Water | Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa. JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 47(5), 917-919. doi:10.1080/03057070.2021.1976015
From Mink to the Wild: COVID-19 through the Mirror of Sylvatic Plague
Brown, J., & Lynteris, C. (2021). From Mink to the Wild: COVID-19 through the Mirror of Sylvatic Plague. Somatosphere. Retrieved from https://somatosphere.com/2021/mink-covid-sylvatic-plague.html/
DOMESTICATION, DEGENERATION, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ADDO ELEPHANT NATIONAL PARK IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1910s-1930s
Skotnes-Brown, J. (2021). DOMESTICATION, DEGENERATION, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ADDO ELEPHANT NATIONAL PARK IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1910s-1930s. HISTORICAL JOURNAL, 64(2), 357-383. doi:10.1017/S0018246X19000761
Episode 77: Humans, Animals and the Environment in South Africa with Jules Skotnes-Brown
Brown, J. (2021). Episode 77: Humans, Animals and the Environment in South Africa with Jules Skotnes-Brown. [Podcast]. Retrieved from https://infectioushistorians.com/2021/09/03/south-africa/
2020
Wildness and Domesticity: the Addo Elephant National Park in early 20th century South Africa
Brown, J. (2020). Wildness and Domesticity: the Addo Elephant National Park in early 20th century South Africa. Cambridge Core Blog. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/
2019
Colonized Play: Racism, Sexism, and Colonial Legacies in the Dota 2 South Africa Gaming Community
Skotnes-Brown, J., & Brown, J. (2019). Colonized Play: Racism, Sexism, and Colonial Legacies in the Dota 2 South Africa Gaming Community. In P. Penix-Tadsen (Ed.), Video Games and the Global South. ETC Press.
2018
Tsetse Fly Case
Brown, J. (2018). Tsetse Fly Case. Retrieved from https://www.objectecologies.co.za/2019/iziko-museums/tsetse-fly-case/