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For Professor Laughran, the study of history should be interdisciplinary
since "the past includes everything." Her publications range
from the history of cosmetics to apothecaries in Renaissance Venice. She
conducts research in Italy, and serves as the director of the Honors Program.
Teaching & Research Interests
- Social & Cultural History
- Medieval
- Italian Renaissance
- Gender
- Science & Medicine
Publications
"Medicating with or Without 'Scruples': The 'Professionalization'
of the Apothecary in Sixteenth-Century Venice," in Pharmacy in
History 45 (2003): 95-107
"Oltre la pelle. I cosmetici e il loro uso" ("More than
Skin Deep: Cosmetics & Their Use in Italy from the Middle Ages to
the Modern Period") in Storia d'Italia: Annali. La moda
(Annals of Italian History: History of Fashion), (Turin: Einaudi, 2003),
pp. 43-82.
Affiliations
American Historical Association
Renaissance Society of America
History of Science Society
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
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