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Emily Cock

Dr Emily Cock

Uwch Ddarlithydd mewn Hanes Modern Cynnar

Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd

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I hold an early career fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for the three-year project Fragile Faces: Disfigurement in Britain and its Colonies (1600–1850). Fragile Faces explores the threat, experience and representation of facial disfigurement in Britain and its colonies in Virginia, Massachusetts and Australia from 1600 to 1850. I investigate what facial differences were considered disfiguring and how these differed between and within each region, with regard to assumptions of individual and group identity, disability, violence and legal approaches to disfigurement, gender and sexuality, and developing national and racial boundaries. My analysis challenges and critiques certain notions of facial normativity that are employed today in medical and legal frameworks, and the relation of facial difference to stigma and disability. I am a member of the Effaced from History research network on facial difference from antiquity to the present day.

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2025

  • Cock, E. 2025. Cripping the convict archive. In: Hunt-Kennedy, S. and Barclay, J. eds. Cripping the Archive: Disability, History and Power. University of Illinois Press

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I teach undergraduate modules on early modern history (including a third-year module on early modern health), and undergraduate and MA modules on historical practice, especially gender and disability histories.

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I hold a PhD from the University of Adelaide (Australia). I have held research positions at Winchester, Swansea and Adelaide universities, and further fellowships including Chawton House, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS), the Barr Smith Library (Adelaide), the Leverhulme Trust, and the Learned Society of Wales.

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Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 
Social History of Medicine Editorial Board (2021–)
Series Co-Editor (Early Modern) for Facialities (Bloomsbury Press) (2020–)
Learned Society of Wales Advisory Group for the Development of Researchers, ECR Rep (2022–)
Institute for Historical Research (London) Review Board (Dec 2019–)
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 
Society for the Social History of Medicine (UK)
Disability History Association (USA)
The Early Modern Book Project

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