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Hannah Murphy
@hsmurphy.bsky.social
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Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Nov 12
For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars

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Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 1h
My absolute FAVOURITE thing we have done @kingshistory.bsky.social is our new research seminar. External speakers, but also, *mostly* our own colleagues and their research. So far we've had departing colleagues, new Microhistories, and ECRS - we're squeezed like sardines and it is WONDERFUL🗃️
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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 22h
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 7h
An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 22h
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
www.unilu.ch
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
A total privilege to hear @eicathomefinn.bsky.social's work on imperial family formation - representation, political manipulation, and the ambivalence of its legibility in the context of the EIC and Tipu Sultan. The perfect start to our @ihreurope1500.bsky.social year

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 1d
We’re OFF! (I just managed to lock myself out off the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social account on this device, apparently…) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 6d
I mean, what a term?! What a term card.... So excited, and more excellence to come in the new year....

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11d
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 15d
And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d
First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d
3) A one-year Research Assistantship
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d
2) A two year post on visual culture (leading to an exhibition)
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d
1) A three year post on Gendered Materialities
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d
First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 22
Genuinely incredible to work in an institution willing to invest in the future of PhD research in arts and humanities - this is a credit to our faculty leadership (@ajt55.bsky.social) and a testament to the vitality of our community...
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King's launches Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jun 20
Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.

25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"

26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"

Full details below.

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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · May 15
Can hardly believe it is GO TIME for our Very Big, Truly Exciting, capstone project conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World. Looking forward to day one....

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · May 12
Plantation sick houses and medical neglect - a new blog ahead of our closing conference, written by the extremely excellent Halle-Mackenzie Ashby. We've been following her progress since she participated in our summer school, and it's a true pleasure to see it develop.

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Wholesome Places of Healing: Plantation Sickhouses and Medical Neglect  — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
The abolition of slavery did little to alter the inherent violence of plantation labor regimes. The laws of the Barbados Abolition Act mandated men’s and women’s continued labor on the field for an ad...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · May 1
Unfortunately, it's not possible to live stream this time, so sorry...
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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · Apr 30
Really looking forward to the “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Atlantic World” conference happening in two weeks @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, featuring yours truly, plus @alltoosuman.bsky.social, @meghankroberts.bsky.social, @claireweeda.bsky.social & so many more. Link to register below!
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30
FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

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Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London
After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30
FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

#EarlyModern 🗃️
Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London
After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...
www.tickettailor.com
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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Apr 28
If you couldn’t get the official zoom link, we can smuggle you in clandestinely. Just follow us, drop a picture of a cool tree, and we’ll DM.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · Apr 25
MONDAY!!! Join us for an exciting talk by @michaelaidan.bsky.social on Dissimilar Gentiles: Canary Islanders and Black West Africans in the #EarlyModern Iberian Atlantic

28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians
Map of the port city of Cartagena de Indias, where Alonso de Sandoval worked. Plano de la Ciudad de Cartagena de Yndias y sus cercanías, around 1628, Archivo General de Indias. from: https://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/show/22078
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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · Apr 28
For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3:
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‘Discurso de Su Vida’: A Black Woman Healer’s Biography — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Inquisition records from the Spanish, Portuguese and Roman Inquisition have become key sources to expand the range of voices within the combined histories of medicine and slavery, precisely because th...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 28
Forgot to post due to travel: a GEM of a source, and an archival discovery by our very own Carolin Schmitz... an incredible inquisitorial record of five separate prosecutions and one very unique testimony by María Felipa, a sometimes free, sometimes enslaved Black healer on the Canary Isles...
‘Discurso de Su Vida’: A Black Woman Healer’s Biography — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Inquisition records from the Spanish, Portuguese and Roman Inquisition have become key sources to expand the range of voices within the combined histories of medicine and slavery, precisely because th...
www.mmor.co.uk
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Apr 28
To mark tonight’s FINAL spring book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social (at @cemskcl.bsky.social; details end of 🧵), here’s a history of science, the monster version - in pics! 1/ 🧵
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
Four hand-drawn, colored squares contain a person standing on a stag; a person with a nose and mouth in the chest, eyes in the shoulders, and no head; a person with a face in the chest and no head; and a person holding up a very long lip.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 28
Sending this book tour off in style at @kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social. There will be (non-alcoholic) drinks, there will be nibbles, there will be friendly conversation and questions aplenty... do come along!
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Apr 28
To mark tonight’s FINAL spring book tour event for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social (at @cemskcl.bsky.social; details end of 🧵), here’s a history of science, the monster version - in pics! 1/ 🧵
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
Four hand-drawn, colored squares contain a person standing on a stag; a person with a nose and mouth in the chest, eyes in the shoulders, and no head; a person with a face in the chest and no head; and a person holding up a very long lip.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Apr 1
'a complex and contradictory text, which reveals much about proselytising work in Cartagena de Indias, the brutal realities of the trade in enslaved people, as well as the gradual emergence of the fixed categories of Blackness and Whiteness forged through these historical processes.'
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 31
Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...
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Michael Aidan Pope @michaelaidan.bsky.social · Apr 1
I just wrote this small piece for the MMoR blog. Make sure to check out the rest of the posts too. Hannah, Carolin, and Becca have put together a great collection of primary source analysis there!
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 31
Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️

www.mmor.co.uk/blog/alonso-...
Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...
www.mmor.co.uk
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