Enter the Everything Historian

New York Times

                November 19, 2022

            Enter the Everything Historian

                Notes and musings from a historian who sees connections everywhere.

            "Surekha Davies turns the tables and looks at humankind through the burning eyes of the monsters it has created in its seemingly limitless effort to isolate otherness. A triumph of scholarship that is as erudite as it is entertaining."—Lindsey Fitzharris, New York Times–bestselling author of The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

            This is Notes from an Everything Historian, a newsletter about history, culture, art, food, and monsters – and transcending academe to become a full-time writer.
I’m Dr Surekha Davies, historian of science, art, ideas, and monsters (yeah!). After 10+something years in postdocs & faculty jobs in the UK, the US, and the Netherlands, and publishing the multi-award-winning Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters, I turn into a full-time freelance writer as of December 2022.
My next book, Humans: A Monstrous History, is under contract with the University of California Press as a lead trade-list title. As of November 2022, the manuscript is under peer review (yippee-yikes!).
To find out more, please visit my website, www.surekhadavies.org.
This newsletter
Four themes frame this newsletter:

Re-learning to write: follow my real-time, both-and experiment: writing for general audiences while advancing academic scholarship (& getting those zombie articles into print!).
Takes and recs: unconventional reviews of books, museums, podcasts, and what I’m watching - and how they’re changing my thinking.
Adventures in the deep humanities: notes and musings from my research as I track books, manuscripts, and objects.
Something’s happening: publication news (books, articles, essays) and speaking engagements (talks and conferences).
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            You can also find me on www.surekhadavies.org,
BlueSky (@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social),
and Instagram/Threads (@surekhadavies).

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