History Personnel
Teaching - Fall/Winter 2023-24
2450F - Renaissance and Religious Reform in Europe, 1450-1600 (Pre-1800)
2460G - Europe Transformed: Science, Enlightenment, and Commercial Expansion, 1600-1815 (Pre-1800)
2818F - Plague and Death from Antiquity to the 18th Century (Pre-1800)
2819G - How Epidemics Change the Way We Live
3430G - Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700 (Pre-1800)
4416F - Witchcraft in the Early Modern World (Pre-1800)
Mitchell Hammond
- Assistant Professor
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88860
Email: mhammo42@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall 2218
Office Hours: Winter Term : Thursdays 10:00 - 11:00 am or by appointment.
Research Interests
I research the social and medical history of early modern Europe with a focus on German cities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I am also interested in the history of public health and the impact of epidemic disease in the modern world.
Teaching Experience
My teaching interests range across the early modern period, including the encounters of American, European and African peoples in the Atlantic world after 1400 and the conflict caused by Europe's religious reform movements in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I also teach courses on the history of disease, Western medicine and public health.
Recent Scholarship and Presentations
- Epidemics and the Modern World (University of Toronto Press, 2020)
- Lecture: Epidemic Histories and Pandemic Futures (ICity Talks Lectures, Victoria BC, 21 October 2021)
- Lecture: Germ Theories, Telegraphs, and the Birth of Modern Pandemics (Cafe Historique, Victoria BC, 2 November 2021)
