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Briana Brightly is a Ph.D. candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion. Her dissertation, titled “Anatomy of the Buddha: Making Images during the Golden Age of Tibetan Medicine, 1600–1800,” investigates the intersection of medicine and Buddhist...

Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...

Ori Ben-Shalom is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. His dissertation, “Medicine and Historical Practice in Enlightenment Italy,” examines the role of history in the learned medical world of 18th-century Italy. It asks...

• Region(s): Italy; Europe
• Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century; 17th century
• Theme(s): History of Science; History of Ideas; Intellectual History; History of Censorship

Marcus earned her BA at the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD at Stanford...

• Region(s): Europe
• Time Period(s): 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme(s): History of Science; History of Medicine; History of Gender and Sexuality

   

Katharine Park’s research and teaching focuses on the history of...

• Region: Holy Roman Empire
• Time: 17th century
• Themes: Cartography; Cultural History; Digital Humanities; History of Medicine

Molly Taylor-Poleskey is an early modern European cultural historian and digital humanist. She is the Map Librarian at...

Deren Ertas is a PhD Candidate in the joint History and Middle Eastern Studies program at Harvard University. She is currently completing her dissertation entitled “Geos and Empire: Mining, Labor, and Environment in the Ottoman Empire, 1720s-1820s.” Her...