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Biography:
biography, sample publications etc. can all be found at http://www.contagionism.org/curriculum_vitae.htm
Current research areas:
Ideas about contagion in eighteenth-century Brtiain
Recent scholarly activity:
Editor, H-Scholar: https://networks.h-net.org/h-scholar
recent presentations include: participating in a workshop on "Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries," American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 6, 2019.
"Dr. Richard Davies: Contagion, Inflammation, and the Blood," Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Santa Barbara, February 17, 2017
“Healers and Hellions: the formation of London’s medical reform community in the 1740s,” PCCBS conference, Santa Barbara, 2018
"From princess to assassin: My mother in the media," Explorations in Media Ecology, 16, No. 4, 1 December 2017, 303-310(8)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/eme.16.4.303
Recent publications:
Germ of an Idea: Contagionism and Religion in Britain 1660-1730 (Palgrave Macmillan:(2016)
Contagionism Catches On: Medical Ideology in Britain, 1730-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan:2017)
Other activities:
President, Northwest Independent Scholars Assn.
President, Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted