BIOLOGY, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
I am an independent researcher interested in infectious disease. My training is in biology (MS) and biosecurity and disaster preparedness (MS). I am currently finishing a degree (MS) in Cultural Heritage with interests in Digital Heritage, Public History, and Free-Choice Learning.
I’m interested in the animal-human network of zoonotic infections in a landscape context in the past; what I have called the historic landscape of diseases. It could also be called landscape epidemiology or the One Health approach. My current focus is on keeping up with plague developments, digital heritage, and museology. I blog about my research at Contagions and you can find me on twitter @MZiegler3
Updated June 1, 2020.
Hi Katherine,
I’m not sure what you mean by “data sets”. I have a blog Contagions with a page of indexed plague posts http://contagions.wordpress.com/the-plague/ . Most of these have references for more information. Paul Slack’s Plague: A Very Short Introduction is also a good, inexpensive book to give you an overview.
Michelle
Hi,
I’m a 6th grade History teacher in Brooklyn looking for data on medieval Y. pestis (or other) plagues. I’d like to collect a selection of data sets from the medieval period. I mean “data sets” fairly loosely — maybe “lists” or “sources” is a better word.
Anyway, if you can offer any advice here, I would be most appreciative!
Katharine Hill
Packer Collegiate Institute