Biography
Katherine Horan (she/her) is a first-year PhD student interested in the intersections of the history of medicine, race, and gender in the early modern British Atlantic. Her research interests lie in the intersection of medical legitimacy, the early modern British Atlantic, and race and gender. She is specifically interested in how the British Empire's imperial ambitions influenced colonial and British subjects' conceptions of medical legitimacy and choosing who to "trust" for medical care. In her master's thesis, Katherine argued that early modern English and American medical practitioners continuously defined medical quackery on the basis of race, gender, religion, and, in the eighteenth century, a newfound emphasis on empiricism and medical efficacy. Katherine holds a Bachelors of Arts in history and a Master of Arts in history from Florida Atlantic University.
Research Interests
History of science and medicine; British Atlantic World; women, gender, and sexuality; knowledge production in the British Atlantic; Colonial and Early America; early modern Britain and British Empire; print culture and print history; medical quackery; popular medicine; seventeenth and eighteenth-century history
Education
B.A. in History at Florida Atlantic University, magna cum laude
M.A. in History at Florida Atlantic University