Alaurea Holder
T.A.
(she/her)
Alaurea Holder
Contact
Stokes Hall South 370-C
Email: holderaa@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Texas Tech University, 2019
- M.A., Texas Tech University, 2022
Courses
Europe in the World I
Research Interests
Early Modern Italy, Women and Gender, History of Disease and Medicine
Advisor
Department
Biography
Alaurea Holder is currently a PhD student, and her research interests revolve around women who practiced medicine and alchemy in sixteenth century Italy. She is further interested in Milanese nuns as healers and creators of medical knowledge during the early modern period.
Alaurea received her BA in History and Anthropology from Texas Tech University in 2019, and her MA in History from TTU in 2022. Her Master's research focused on the outbreak of plague in Milan in 1576, and the responses of Church and State to the pestilence.