Hannah Murphy
@hsmurphy.bsky.social
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
Blog — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
www.mmor.co.uk
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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Thank you @hsmurphy.bsky.social and @cemskcl.bsky.social for hosting me - what a great evening!
From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thank you @hsmurphy.bsky.social and @cemskcl.bsky.social for hosting me - what a great evening!
TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️
Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.
Waiting list now activated.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Waiting list now activated.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
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Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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Our very own, most excellent Alice @ajt55.bsky.social talking about her amazing career and all its achievements, and, most importantly, our KCL Arts and Humanities doctoral school, which she has championed...
Our colleague Alice Taylor @ajt55.bsky.social shares insights on changes to the #PhD #funding landscape in the UK and how early career scholars can maximise their chances of securing support. #ECR www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/campu...
Campus talks: the future of doctoral research funding for arts and humanities
An award-winning historian shares insights on changes to the PhD funding landscape in the UK and how early career scholars can maximise their chances of securing support
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Our very own, most excellent Alice @ajt55.bsky.social talking about her amazing career and all its achievements, and, most importantly, our KCL Arts and Humanities doctoral school, which she has championed...
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🗃️
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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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...
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
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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...
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
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!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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...
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
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
We’re OFF! (I just managed to lock myself out off the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social account on this device, apparently…) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
I mean, what a term?! What a term card.... So excited, and more excellence to come in the new year....
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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
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
October 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I mean, what a term?! What a term card.... So excited, and more excellence to come in the new year....
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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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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!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
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.
www.kcl.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
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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.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...
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.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...
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...
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...
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.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...
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....
🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed
🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed
May 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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....
🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed
🗃️ #EarlyModern #Histmed
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...
www.mmor.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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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!
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 🗃️
#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
April 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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!
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 🗃️
#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
April 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
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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.
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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
28 April, 5:30PM, @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom (register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/events/dissi...) #SkyStorians
April 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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.
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3:
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
‘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
April 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
For all #skystorians interested in #earlymodern intersections of medicine, gender, and race. Just dive into this fascinating post by Carolin Schmitz 1/3:
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
www.mmor.co.uk/blog/discurs...
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
April 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
Reposted by Hannah Murphy
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
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
April 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
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!
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
💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH
April 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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'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.'
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-...
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
April 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
'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.'