George Rousseau

George Rousseau
Born	George Sebastian Rousseau 1941 (age 75–76) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Residence	Oxfordshire, UK
Nationality	American, British
Alma mater	Amherst College Princeton University
Occupation	Professor
Organization	University of Oxford
Known for	Cultural and intellectual history and literature
Partner(s)	J F Sturley (landscape gardener)

George Sebastian Rousseau (born February 23, 1941) is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom.

He was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University where he obtained his doctorate.

From 1966 to 1968 he was a member of the English Faculty at Harvard University, before moving to a professorship at UCLA, and later to the Regius Chair of English at Aberdeen University in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. Since then he has been attached to the History Faculty at Oxford University in Oxford, England where was the Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood from 2003 - 2013.

Rousseau is a cultural historian who works in the interface of literature and medicine, and emphasizes the relevance of imaginative materials - literature, especially diaries and biography, art and architecture, music - for the public understanding of medicine, past and present. Rousseau is an ongoing member of the Core Team of the Norwegian Research Group in Literature and Science, and, from 2016-2020, will be the Samkul Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the University of Bergen, Norway. In 2010 - 2012 Rousseau was the presenter of the Wellcome Collection Event Series in London called 'Tell It To Your Doctor'.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). He has been awarded an honorary doctorate honoris causa by the University of Bucharest, Romania.

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