Dr Hannah Murphy: 'Slavery, Affect, and Attention in the Early Modern Atlantic’ (Monday March 18th at 6pm McCrea 1-13 and on Teams)
Hannah is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at King's College, London. She is the recipient of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and is Principal Investigator of the project, “Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720”. She is also Co-Investigator on Renaissance Skin, a Wellcome Trust-funded project led by Evelyn Welch. Her first book, A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press and won the Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize, 2020. Her research interests include he history of knowledge, science and medicine in early modern Europe and Early modern medical practitioners and practical structures of "race-making".
