Amanda Coate

Amanda is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Stanford University. She works on the cultural and intellectual histories of early modern Europe, with a geographical focus on the British Isles, France, and Germany. She is particularly interested in animal-human interactions, the history of medicine and related fields of knowledge, and how people have conceptualized human nature. Her dissertation, "Experiences and Meanings of Hunger in Early Modern Europe, c. 1550-1700," examines early modern European cultural understandings of hunger and food scarcity.