Dr. Sara Caputo

Biography

Sara Caputo is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where she also serves as Director of Studies in History. Her areas of expertise include eighteenth and nineteenth-century transnational maritime history, British and European imperial history, and the history of medicine and mapping. She completed her PhD at Robinson College, Cambridge, with a thesis titled 'Foreign Seamen in the British Navy, 1793-1815', which was awarded the University’s Prince Consort Thirlwall Prize. Her forthcoming monograph will be based on research awarded the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Book Prize. Caputo has held various prestigious fellowships including International Visiting Fellow at the Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum in Germany and a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in California. She has served as a Lumley Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene and has been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her publications include the forthcoming book 'Foreign Jack Tars: British Navy Transnational Seafarers in the Revolutionary Napoleonic Wars', and she currently co-edits the Historical Journal. Caputo is actively involved in teaching, supervising undergraduate and graduate students, and is the co-convenor of the Cambridge Eighteenth Century Seminar as well as the Cambridge Mediterranean History Research Cluster. She is also a member of the executive council of the Scottish History Society.

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