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Mitchell Hammond

Assistant Professor

Email: mhammo42@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519-661-2111 ext. 88860
Office: Lawson Hall 2218
Office Hours:

Fall and Winter 2024-2025: Tuesdays 10:00 am - 11:00 am or by appointment.

Supervision

Master's level supervisory privileges and co-supervisor Doctoral privileges

Teaching: Fall/Winter 2025-26

Course Code Course Title
HIST 1402F Nineteenth Century Europe
HIST 2450F Renaissance & Religious Reform in Europe, 1450-1600 (Pre-1800)
HIST 2818G Plague and Death from Antiquity to the 18th Century (Pre-1800)
HIST 3750G The Atlantic World, 1450 - 1700 (Pre-1800)
HIST 4416F Witchcraft in the Early Modern World (Pre-1800)

Research and Specialization

Professor Hammond researches the social and medical history of early modern Europe with a focus on German cities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is also interested in the history of public health and the impact of epidemic disease in the modern world.

Teaching Experience

Professor Hammond's 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. He also teaches courses on the history of disease, Western medicine and public health.

Recent Scholarship and Presentations