Dr. Sebestian Kroupa

Biography

Sebestian Kroupa is an Assistant Professor at McGill University in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. He holds a PhD and MPhil in History of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Biology from the University of St Andrews. His academic career includes a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and a Research Associate position with the Renaissance Skin Project at King’s College London. Dr. Kroupa has performed research fellowships at prominent institutions including Wolfson College, Cambridge, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Natural History Museum in London. His research interests focus on the history of pre-modern medicine and life sciences in cross-cultural contexts, with particular emphasis on the Indian and Pacific Oceans. He explores colonial medical encounters and conceptions of the body, as well as global circulations of medical knowledge and remedies. His publications cover topics such as Indigenous tattooing in the Philippines and the networks of knowledge exchange in early modern geography. He is currently working on a monograph that examines how Philippine medicinal substances were constructed, commodified, and globalized in the early modern period.

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