An EconoTimes perspective

Samuel Cohn

Professor of History, University of Glasgow

Professor of History, University of Glasgow Over the past fifteen years I have specialised in the history of popular unrest in late medieval and early modern Europe and in the history of disease and medicine. My current project on the emotional histories of epidemics and pandemics from Antiquity to Ebola brings these two interests together. I am now beginning the third year of a three-year ‘Major Research Fellowship’ from the Leverhulme Trust to complete my project ‘Epidemics: hate and compassion from the Plague of Athens to AIDS’. In addition, I have recently collaborated with medical anthropologists on comparative projects on cholera, plague and Ebola, and with geneticists on the Black Death and syphilis and gonorrhoea in eighteenth-century Scotland. I am currently an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, an Honorary Fellow of the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.