Five College Renaissance Seminar
Dr. Surekha Davies will present her new book, Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025). Dr. Davies is a British author, speaker, and historian, with a BA and an M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of London. She is the author of Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025). Her first book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016), won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history from the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Roland H. Bainton Prize in History and Theology. Her writing has been supported by such institutions as the American Historical Association, the Library of Congress, the American Philosophical Society, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the John Carter Brown Library. She has written about biology, anthropology, and monsters in the Times Literary Supplement, Nature, Science, and Aeon.