Graduate Student Directory

Francesca Gibson
  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Division Graduate Studies Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Email
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Mail Stop History Department

Research Interests

History of Medicine

Gender History

History of the Body

History of Emotion

History of the Atlantic World/Early Modern England

Biography, Education and Training

B.A., History summa cum laude, College of Charleston, 2024

B.S., Psychology summa cum laude, College of Charleston, 2024

Honors, Awards and Grants

Graduate Fellow, NSF CAREER Grant, "History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns," Award Abstract #1848557, Principal Investigator Jennifer L. Derr.

Chancellor's Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2024-2025

Lynn W. Turner Prize, Phi Alpha Theta National Paper Prize Award, 2023

Selected Publications

Gibson, F. (2023). Inescapable Darkness: Nocturnal Hallucinations and the Early Modern Experience of Bewitchment, Columbia Journal of History, 7.

Selected Presentations

“To ‘Cool Her Immoderate Heat:’ Water as Cure and Punishment in Early Modern England.” Paper presented at the annual Southeast World History Association conference. Charleston, SC.

 

“Inescapable Darkness: Sleep Disorders and the Experience of Bewitchment.” Oral presentation at the annual Phi Alpha Theta Carolinas Regional Conference. Charleston, SC.