The CJS extends a warm welcome to Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at the Department of the History of Science and Interim Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, the newest member of our Executive Committee.
Her research focuses on the scientific culture of early modern Europe between 1400 and 1700.
Marcus’s first book, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2020), explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on many of these texts during the Counter-Reformation. She is also the translator of Camilla Erculiani’s Letters on Natural Philosophy (1584). She engages in digital humanities research through her work on Galileo, which she has published in collaboration with Paula Findlen (Stanford) and Crystal Hall (Bowdoin).
Her public writing has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Boston Globe, among other venues.