CAS Lecture Series: The Plagues of Africa: Reconstructing the Global Histories of a Eurasian Disease

Monica H. Green is a historian of medicine and global health, specializing on the pre-1500 period. Her work on the history of plague combines the findings of documentary history, bioarchaeology, and paleogenetics, in an attempt to reconstruct the epidemiological history of the Second Plague Pandemic (13th-18th centuries). She is the author or editor of multiple studies on the history of plague and other global diseases, including “The Pandemic Arc: Expanded Narratives in the History of Global Health” and (with Nahyan Fancy) “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading up to the Black Death.” She is currently completing a global history of the Black Death, and is due to launch an open-access teaching module on the late medieval pandemic later this year