FIELDS:
- History of Science & Medicine
- History of Disease
- Environmental History
- Animal History
BIOGRAPHY:
“Harry” York’s research focuses on the history of medicine and disease, environmental history, and animal history in the medieval and early modern period. In addition to teaching lower-division courses on The Global City and Urban Humanities in the Honors College, he also teaches seminars on Living with Animals, Plague in the Premodern World, Environment and Urbanization in Premodern Europe, and Imagining the Body in Premodern Europe.
Harry is enthusiastic about building meaningful international experiences into the Honors College. He partners with Professor Brenda Glascott to co-lead a summer travel abroad program to London for students in Honors. He also incorporates meaningful international experiences into some of his courses through online collaborative projects in which students in Honors work with peers at foreign universities on a shared project (previous projects have collaborated with students at Qatar University, Eastern International University in Vietnam, and Université Mohammed VI des Sciences de la Santé in Morocco).
Harry is honored to serve as the advisor for the Rosenbaum Service Leadership Scholars program in the Honors College. Rosenbaum Scholars learn the value and joy of leadership and community service through first-hand experience in an internship in which they work with a nonprofit organization and its board of directors.
Harry is currently serving as the president of Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages. He serves on the Editorial Board for the Premodern Health, Disease and Disability series for Amsterdam University Press.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Volume 1, Part 1 in Health and Medicine through History: From Ancient Practices to 21st-Century Innovations, edited by Ruth Clifford Engs, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2019.
Health and Wellness in Antiquity through the Middle Ages (Health and Wellness in Daily Life series). Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2012.
“Teaching Medicine per viam experimenti: University-Trained Physicians and Empirical Medical Knowledge in the Later Middle Ages,” in The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing, edited by Barbara S. Bowers and Linda M. Keyser (Ashgate, 2016).