Laura Kounine

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Dr. Laura Kounine is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Sussex. She completed her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, and subsequently held a research fellowship at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She has also held a visiting fellowship at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne.

 

Laura’s research has focused on the early modern witch-hunts, in particular the ways in which gender, emotions and selfhood were conceptualized and experienced in early modern German witch-trials. This research will be published in her forthcoming book Imagining the Witch: Gender, Emotions and Selfhood in Early Modern Germany (OUP, 2018). She has published a number of articles and edited volumes, including Emotions in the History of Witchcraft, co-edited with Michael Ostling (Palgrave, 2017).

 

She is also the recipient of a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award