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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.

Convenors Camille Cole and Peter Hill reflect on their workshop held in Cambridge in October 2022.