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| Katherine Adele Royer |
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| Assistant Professor of History |
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| Education: |
| M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University |
| M.D., Tulane University School of Medicine |
| B.A.., Biology, University of Kansas |
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| Fields: |
| Medieval and Early Modern Europe |
| Britain and the Empire |
| Legal History |
| History of Disease |
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| Courses: |
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| World Civilizations I and II |
| Medieval Europe |
| Renaissance and Reformation |
| Absolutism and Revolution |
| Capital Punishment in World Societies |
| Disease and World Societies |
| The History of Historical Writing |
| Graduate European Seminar |
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| Current Research: |
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| Explores the narratives of executions in late medieval and early modern England and examines the ways in which these texts served as representations of the scaffold ritual and the religious and political culture at large. In particular, this current work focuses on the conceptual resources through which a discourse of punishment was first formed and then later reshaped over the course of several centuries in England to address a series of religious and political crises. This research is part of a larger project that examines the history of the rituals of execution in England. |
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| Papers & Publications: |
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- "Silence, the Scaffold and the Semiotics of Judicial Violence in Late Medieval England," paper presented at the The Image of Violence in Literature, Media and Society Conference, March 2007.
- "The Arm of the Raj and the Body of India," paper presented at the Empire and Imperial Cultures Conference. March 2006.
- “The Body Abandoned: Somatic Signification and the Execution Narrative,” paper presented at the Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies, April 2005.
- “Dead Men Talking: Truth, Texts and the Scaffold in Early Modern England,” in Penal Practice and Culture 1500-1900: Punishing the English, edited by Simon Devereaux and Paul Griffiths, Palgrave Press, 2004.
- “Seeing is Believing: Plague and Colonial Medicine in Nineteenth-Century India,” paper presented at the Empire and Imperial Culture Conference, February 2004.
- “The Body in Parts: Reading the Execution Ritual in Late Medieval England,” Historical Reflections, 29 (Summer 2003): 319-339.
- “Better to behold a Triumph Than Be Made a Sacrifice,” paper presented at the Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies, April 2003.
- “A Capital Example: Executions and Exemplary Strategies in Early Modern England,” paper presented and panel organized for Law, Literature and the Humanities, Georgetown University School of Law, March 1998.
- “The Voices of Violence: Narratives of Executions from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries,” paper presented at the North American Conference of British Studies, October 1997.
- “Describing Disease: The Discourse of the Indian Plague Commission,” paper presented at the Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies, April 1994.
- “Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis Caused by Recurrent Myoglobinuria,” Archives of Internal Medicine, 140: August 1980.
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| Professional Affiliations: |
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| Pacific Coast Conference of British Studies |
| North American Conference of British Studies |
| American Historical Association |
| American Society of Legal History |
| American Society for the History of Medicine |
| American College of Physicians |
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