Graduate Student Directory
- Title
- PhD Student
- Division Graduate Studies Division
- Department
- History Department
- Office Hours By appointment
- Mail Stop History Department
Research Interests
History of Emotion and the Mind
History of Medicine
History of Early Modern English Imperialism
Gender History
History of the Body
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
The Humanities Institute Summer Pathways Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2025
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, Francesca. "Reading Powders: Gender, Drugs, and the 'Foreign' in Early Modern England." Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, 6 (2025).
Gibson, Francesca. "Inescapable Darkness: Nocturnal Hallucinations and the Early Modern Experience of Bewitchment." Columbia Journal of History, 7 (2023): 16-46.
Selected Presentations
Gibson, Francesca. Spring 2025. “Reading Powders: Gender, Drugs, and the ‘Foreign’ in Early Modern England.” Paper presented at the annual Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. Palo Alto, CA.
“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.
