Imperial Bodies in London short-listed for Whitfield Prize

The Royal Historical Society has just announced that my first book, Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021) has been short listed for the prestigious Whitfield Prize. This book prize is for first monographs in the field of British and Irish history. The prize includes £1,000 and will be announced on the 22nd of July.

The short-listed books are:

• Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire by Emily Baughan (University of California Press)

• Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 by Laura Carter (Oxford University Press)

• Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology by Tracy Collins (Cork University Press)

• Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914 by Kristin D. Hussey (University of Pittsburgh Press)

• Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England by Harriet Lyon (Cambridge University Press)

• ‘The First National Museum’: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Sherra Murphy (University of Cork Press)

I am very proud and delighted to be included in a short list with such wonderful scholars!

You can read more about the prize here.