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Dr Hannah Murphy
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History
- Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies
Contact details
Biography
Hannah Murphy joined the department in 2017 first as a research fellow, and from 2021 as Lecturer in Early Modern History. 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.
Prior to joining King’s, Hannah was a Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. She has a BA in History and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and she was awarded her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
Research interests and PhD supervision
- The history of knowledge
- Science and medicine in early modern Europe
- Early modern medical practitioners and practical structures of "race-making"
For more information, please see Hannah's full research profile.
Expertise and public engagement
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/earlymodern-skin-colour/
Selected publications
- (2020)) " Skin and Disease in Early Modern Medicine: Jan Jessen's De cute, et cutaneis affectibus (1601), Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 94 (2020), 179-214
- (2019) A New Order of Medicine: The Rise of Physicians in Reformation Nuremberg, University of Pittsburgh Press 2019 - Winner of the Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize, 2020
- (2016) Common places and private spaces: libraries, record-keeping and orders of information in sixteenth-century medicine. Past and Present [Special Issue 11: The Social History of the Archive], 230 (Suppl. 11), 253-268
Research
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Centre for Early Modern Studies
The Centre for Early Modern Studies was established in 2015 to promote research in the early modern period (understood in its broadest sense, roughly 1400-1700).
News
Visible Skin exhibition extended until February 2022
Visible Skin: Rediscovering the Renaissance through Black Portraiture, King’s outdoor exhibition on the Strand, has been extended until 18 February 2022 due...
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King's researcher awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for ground-breaking new insights into the history of medicine and race
Dr Hannah Murphy has been named one of UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellows for her study into pre-modern race. The leading scheme awards outstanding scholars with...
![Black and white profile photo of Dr Hannah Murphy](/newimages/ah/history/news/hannah-murphy.x55b14956.png?w=780&h=536&crop=780,440,0,48&f=webp)
Research
![42564057_presentation-wide](/newimages/research/hero/42564057-presentation-wide.x61be0b30.jpg?w=782&h=440&crop=780,440,1,0&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
The Centre for the Humanities and Health
A multidisciplinary forum interfacing the humanities, health, science & society.
![cems skating](/newimages/ah/ahri/general/cems-skating.x73e92676.jpg?w=1156&h=440&crop=780,440,188,0&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Centre for Early Modern Studies
The Centre for Early Modern Studies was established in 2015 to promote research in the early modern period (understood in its broadest sense, roughly 1400-1700).
News
Visible Skin exhibition extended until February 2022
Visible Skin: Rediscovering the Renaissance through Black Portraiture, King’s outdoor exhibition on the Strand, has been extended until 18 February 2022 due...
![Visible Skin promotional image showing the logo](/newimages/culture/news-events-general/visible-skin/visible-skin-promo-image.x2e156049.jpg?w=782&h=440&crop=780,440,1,0&f=webp)
King's researcher awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for ground-breaking new insights into the history of medicine and race
Dr Hannah Murphy has been named one of UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellows for her study into pre-modern race. The leading scheme awards outstanding scholars with...
![Black and white profile photo of Dr Hannah Murphy](/newimages/ah/history/news/hannah-murphy.x55b14956.png?w=780&h=536&crop=780,440,0,48&f=webp)