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WHO’S HERE? A brief introduction to new fellows joining CRASSH this Lent Term 2023.

CRASSH’s Director Joanna Page and Nine Dot’s Senior Prize Manager Jane Tinkler, answer questions put to them about the Nine Dots prize

I am working on the epistemological and social history of the concept of rural plague in Brazil, on how it framed the Brazilian semi-arid region – known as the backlands – the rodents and the people living there, as a source of disease.