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Melissa Reynolds

Melissa Reynolds

Assistant Professor

She/Her 817-257-1290 Reed Hall 330

Education

PhD, History, Rutgers University
MA, History, The University of Alabama
BA, English, with Honors, summa cum laude, The University of Alabama

Courses Taught

HIST 10213 The World Expanded: Europe 1348-1789
HIST 30623 History of Science: Scientific Revolutions

Areas of Focus

Early Modern European History, History of Medicine and Science, Gender History

 

Books:

Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print  (Chicago: University of Chicago press, 2024)

Articles & Essays:

  • Co-author (with Hannah Frydman), “Introduction: Histories of Abortion Beyond Roe,Gender & History 36, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 289–294.
  • “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England,” Social History of Medicine 35, no. 1 (February 2022): 144­–169. (Winner, 2023 J. Worth Estes Prize, American Association for the History of Medicine)
  • “How to Cure a Horse, or, the Difference Between the Knowledge of Experience and the Experience of Knowledge,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 52, no. 4 (2022): 546–552.
  • “‘Here is a good boke to lerne’: Practical books, the coming of the press, and the search for knowledge, ca. 1400–1560,” Journal of British Studies 58, no. 2 (April 2019): 259–288.  (Honorable Mention, 2020 Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Essay Prize)
  • American Historical Association
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • American Association for the History of Medicine
  • History of Science Society
  • Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
  • Article reviewer for Social History of Medicine; Centaurus: The Journal of the European Society of the History of Science; Ambix: The Journal of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
  • Liaison to the American Historical Association for the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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