Hannah-Louise Clark

I am a global historian of economic and social history. I study the global dynamics of health and social welfare, cross-cultural translations of knowledge and professional categories, historical discrimination in health professions, and epidemics. My past, current and future research focuses on Africa in its Islamic, European, and global contexts between 1800 and the present, with a particular focus on Algeria.

I hold PhD and MA degrees in History/History of Science from Princeton University (2014 and 2010), a diploma in Arabic language and culture from the American University in Cairo (2008), an AM degree in Regional Studies-Middle East from Harvard University (2005), and a BA Honours in Modern History from the University of Oxford (2002). I have been fortunate to live and study in Algeria, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Morocco, the UK, and the United States. I've worked at Harvard as an administrator, Oxford as a fixed-term lecturer, and at Glasgow in History and now in Economic and Social History.

At Glasgow, I teach courses on innovation and the history of science, technology, and medicine in the modern Middle East and North Africa. I enjoy collaborating with students and colleagues in Glasgow's Archives & Special Collections to run "global history hackathons".

I am currently writing a book about hygienic surveillance in colonized Algeria. The book is based on study of handwritten and typed documents in Arabic and French used by Algerian medical auxiliaries. These sources reveal how racialized religious categories and managerial processes shaped the delivery of public health in Algeria.

My other full-time jobs are being a Type 1 diabetic and a parent.