James (Jim) Andrew Secord (born 18 March 1953) is an American-born historian of science. He was a professor (now retired) of history and philosophy of science within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge,[1] and a fellow of Christ's College.[2] He was also the director (from 2006 until completed in 2023) of the project to publish the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin.[3] Secord is especially well known for Victorian Sensation, his award-winning study of the reception of the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a pioneering evolutionary book first published in 1844. In 2020 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]