Heidi Hausse

Heidi Hausse is a historian of early modern Europe (c.1500-1700), with a particular interest in the intersections of culture, medicine, and technology. Her research interests include early modern surgery, prosthetics, and disability history. Her book, The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany, examines surgical treatises and artifacts of prostheses to uncover a transformation in the ways in which surgeons and artisans cut apart the human body through amputation and worked to artificially put it back together with mechanical limbs.

Hausse received her PhD in history from Princeton University in 2016, and was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University from 2016-2018. She was also the 2016-2017 Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences at the Huntington Library. In 2018, Hausse joined the faculty at Auburn University. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, and the Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung Foundation.