- Professor, History
- Professor, Global Early Modern Studies
Research Interests
- Renaissance and early modern history of natural philosophy, cultural and intellectual history, history of medicine, history of gender and sexuality
Education
- Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University
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Affiliated Campus(es)
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Selected Publications
- Lester D. Friedman and Allison Kavey, Monstrous Progeny: a history of the Frankentein Narratives (Rutgers University Press, 2017)
- Allison B. Kavey and Elizabeth Ketner (Eds), Imagining Early Modern Histories (Ashgate, now Routledge, 2017).
- “A Short History of Love, or Why We Should Teach the History of Epidemics,” in Health and Humanities Reader, eds. Jones, Wear, and Friedman (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012).
- Books of Secrets: natural philosophy in England, 1550-1600, University of Illinois Press, 2007.
- Editor: World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination, Palgrave, 2010.
Current Research
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The magical cosmogony in Agrippa von Nettesheim's De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres
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Affiliated Campus(es)
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice