KATHERINE FOXHALL
CURRICULUM VITAE
Address:
Centre for the History of Medicine
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Email:
Website:
k.foxhall@warwick.ac.uk
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/postgraduate/eportfolios/hyryag/
April 2008
EDUCATION
2005 – Present
University of Warwick: PhD Social History of Medicine
Thesis: Disease at Sea: Bodies, Ships and the Ocean Voyage to Australia, c.1830 – 1870.
2004
University of Warwick: MA Social History of Medicine (Distinction 74%)
Dissertation: Hitchhiking on a Global Tide: Cholera, Mining and Empire Invade a Mid-Nineteenth
Century Cornish Village.
2003
University of Warwick: BA (Hons) History 1st Class
EMPLOYMENT
2006 – Present
Part-Time Tutor in History, University of Warwick
Undergraduate Core Course Taught: Making of the Modern World, c.1740 – 2000.
2005 – 2006
Historical Researcher, Leamington Spa Pump Rooms Museum. Research on medical collections.
WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES ORGANISED
Approaches to the History of Medicine: Discussing Methodology. University of Warwick, 18 January 2007.
RECENT INVITED SEMINAR / CONFERENCE PAPERS GIVEN
‘Scurvy, Cholera and the ‘Reformed’ Convict Body. Maritime disease and penal reform.’ University of Warwick,
History of Medicine Seminar Series. Joint seminar entitled ‘Bodies of Water’ with Dr Clare Anderson, March 2008.
‘British Immigrants in Australian Quarantine, 1828 – 1872.’ Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Centre Seminar
Series, Kings College, January 2008.
‘MDs or ASSes? Smallpox Diagnosis, Fumigation and Vaccination in Quarantine, New South Wales, 1872.’
Imagining and Practising Imperial and Colonial Medicine Conference, University of Oxford, January 2008.
‘Emphatically the Invalid’s Route, Travelling for Health and the Nineteenth Century Voyage to Australia’.
European Association for History of Medicine and Health, Bi-Annual Conference, LSHTM. September 2007.
‘Wasting Away: The Problem of the Consumptive Condition in Voyages to Australia, c. 1800 – 1870.’ Sydney
University, History Departmental Seminar Series, March 2007.
FUNDING
2006 - 2007
2005 - Present
2003 - 2004
Menzies Bicentennial Scholarship.
Wellcome Trust, PhD Studentship Award (3 years).
Wellcome Trust, History of Medicine Master’s Award.