https://www.katemulry.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/602f25648c847a7d2c25afab/1617766020042/CSUB.jpg Contact - kmulry@csub.edu Department of History California State University, Bakersfield 9001 Stockdale Highway Bakersfield, CA 93311-1022 https://www.katemulry.com/work daily 1.0 2021-04-05 https://www.katemulry.com/work/research monthly 0.5 2021-02-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/606d1f2bd9afc06db8449586/1617773309115/Royal%252BSociety.jpg Work - Research - Mulry recently completed a project on the introduction of smallpox inoculation into the Anglo Atlantic in the early eighteenth century. The work examines the translation of the term inoculation from the context of fields and gardens to describe the insertion of live virus material into the human body. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/606d1f9e8cfc5d54b07430e2/1617764355053/Cider.jpg Work - Research https://www.katemulry.com/work/empireofthesenses monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/602f277f08ade31d69ba6d5d/1613703837248/Empire+of+the+Senses.jpg Work - Empire of the Senses - Mulry, Kate. “The Aromas of Flora’s Wide Domains: Cultivating Gardens, Scents, and Political Subjects in the Late Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic.” In Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America, edited by Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite, 255-299. Brill, 2018. Click here to purchase the book from Brill. https://www.katemulry.com/work/about monthly 0.5 2021-03-08 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/602eefd4ee43b869605fb694/1613688815860/Joshua+Tree.JPG Work - About - Kate Luce Mulry (PhD, New York University) is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield. She is the author of An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic (New York University Press, 2021). Mulry teaches courses on early American history, Atlantic World history, the history of science and medicine, the British empire, environmental history, and the history of food. Mulry’s research and writing examine how ideas about the environment, health, and the body shaped, and were shaped by, early modern political culture in the Anglo Atlantic. She is currently working on a project investigating the role played by medical writers in consolidating a set of beliefs about reproduction, demography, and labor in an expanding English empire in the late seventeenth century. https://www.katemulry.com/work/anempiretransformed monthly 0.5 2021-02-18 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/602eec2211a02778d059d8dc/1613687888807/Cover+An+Empire+Transformed.png Work - An Empire Transformed - An Empire Transformed examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. His government sought to assert control and affirm the King’s sovereignty by touting his stewardship of both England’s land and the improvement of his subjects’ health. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, including fen and marshland drainage, forest rehabilitation, urban reconstruction, and garden transplantation schemes, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. Merchants, colonial officials, and members of the Royal Society encouraged royal intervention in places deemed unhealthy, unproductive, or poorly managed. Their multiple schemes reflected an enduring belief in the complex relationships between the health of individual bodies, personal and communal character, and the landscapes they inhabited. In this deeply researched work, Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. These wide-ranging actions offer insights about how restoration officials envisioned authority within a changing English empire. An Empire Transformed is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire. Click here to purchase the book from NYU Press. https://www.katemulry.com/work/teaching monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://www.katemulry.com/work/more monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/606d219234dc8f1143338975/1617764764985/Portrait%252B2.jpg Work - More - Department of History California State University, Bakersfield https://static1.squarespace.com/static/602ca24b0bf2f078f55470ff/t/606d21257a5eeb27616bf681/1617764659298/IMG_4823.jpg Work - More - Class Podcast Welcome to the Science, Medicine & Empire podcast. Each episode features original research by a CSUB student and introduces listeners to people and events that highlight the entangled histories of empire, science, and medicine in the early modern Atlantic world.