Archive: Timothy Newfield

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Past events

Epidemics, Broadening, and Redefining Opium & Plague

The Medical Humanities Initiative co-hosted this event with the Global Medieval Studies Program. This event featured papers by Professors Steffen Rimner and Lee.…

March 20, 2024

Announcements

Professor Timothy Newfield Named Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship

Meet our new Director of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship, Professor Timothy Newfield! Dr. Newfield is a historical epidemiologist, environmental historian, and assistant…

December 20, 2023

Past events

Epidemic Millennium Hosted by Dr. Timothy Newfield

In April 2023, Core Faculty Dr. Timothy Newfield hosted a 22-talk, 2-day meeting that brought together scholars from many disciplines, including History, Archaeology,,…

April 21, 2023

Announcements
Scholarship

Medical Humanities and Global Medieval Studies Workshop: Millennium Epidemics

Join us for the Millennium Epidemics Workshop in…

February 21, 2023

Scholarship

“The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region”

Timothy Newfield and his research team use palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, historical records and climate model simulations to assess the potential broader impact of the 852…

June 29, 2022

Media

“Has the Black Death’s Impact Been Overstated? New Medieval Data Complicates Understanding”, Georgetown College Covers Timothy Newfield’s Research

Georgetown College covers Timothy Newfield's research, undertaken with an interdisciplinary team, on the Black Death's.…

February 17, 2022

Scholarship

“Palaeoecological Data Indicates Land-Use Changes Across Europe Linked to Spatial Heterogeneity in Mortality During the Black Death Pandemic”

Timothy Newfield and his co-authors write about their application of a pioneering new approach, ‘big data palaeoecology’ to evaluate the scale of the Black Death’s…

February 10, 2022

Media

“Did the ‘Black Death’ Really Kill Half of Europe? New Research Says No”, The New York Times Covers Timothy Newfield’s Research

The New York Times covers the research Timothy Newfield co-authored and recently published on the uneven impacts of the plague across Europe, causing "a patchwork of".…

February 10, 2022

Media

“The Black Death Was not as Widespread or Catastrophic as Long Thought – New Study”, Timothy Newfield, Adam Izdebski and Alessia Masi Write on The Conversation

Timothy Newfield, Adam Izdebski and Alessia Masi compared the Black Death’s demographic impact across the continent, concluding that the pandemic’s toll was not as universal…

February 10, 2022

Scholarship

“Syndemic Theory, Methods, and Data”

Emily Mendenhall, Timothy Newfield and Alexander Tsai introduce an Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, focused on Rethinking Syndemics through time, space, and.…

December 14, 2021