History Personnel
Teaching - Fall/Winter 2022-23
2403E - Europe and England in the 16th and17th Centuries
2818F - Plague and Death from Antiquity to the 18th Century
2819G - How Epidemics Change the Way We Live
3797G - Selected Topics in International or Comparative History - Encounter and Transformation in the Atlantic World, 1450-1700
Mitchell Hammond
- Assistant Professor
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88860
Email: mhammo42@uwo.ca
Office: Lawson Hall 2218
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00- 3:00 pm
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)
