Participant Info
- First Name
- Carolyn
- Last Name
- Purnell
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- Carolynpurnell@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent scholar
- Website URL
- carolynpurnell.com
- Keywords
- history of the senses, sensibility, sensation, color, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Enlightenment, gender, France, medicine
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- I am currently on a year-long NEH fellowship to work on a book on the history of color.
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
- Recent Publications
The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses (W. W. Norton & Co., 2017)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/carolynpurnell
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Food History, Gender, Medicine, Science, Technology
