Katherine Foxhall

My research interests include the social and cultural history of health and illness, colonial medicine and migration, imprisonment and institutions, maritime and environmental history. My first book: Health, Medicine and the Sea: Australian Voyages, c.1815-1860 (2012) looked at the maritime experiences of convict and free emigrants who sailed to Australia in the nineteenth century. I have published on maritime and border health and medicine, colonial vaccination, medical experimentation, quarantine, and migraine.

My next project, a social and cultural history of migraine since the Middle Ages will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019.