Isabel Davis

Isabel Davis is the research theme leader in collections and culture at London’s Natural History Museum, bringing arts and humanities perspectives to the museum’s world-class specimen and library and archive collections. She also holds honorary research fellowships at the University of Reading and Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present (MIT Press, 2025), which is illustrated by her long-term collaborator, visual artist Anna Burel. Her research interests are in historical health humanities, especially fertility, conception, and embryology; human and nonhuman animal studies; and environmental history.