Tricia Ross received a Duke-UNC Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Tricia Ross received a Duke-UNC Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship for her dissertation, "Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Religion and Medicine in Early Modern Germany." Combining histories of late medieval and early modern psychology, medicine, and religion, her project reveals how concepts about body and soul in each of these fields overlapped and influenced each other, such that diseases of the body were understood to be related to the health of the soul; and Christian concepts, employing theological or Biblical language, informed physicians’ diagnoses and therapies. It also underlines parallels between early modern disputes about body, soul and personhood with modern debates in fields from biology and the neurosciences to theology and philosophy, contributing an important historical perspective to contemporary discussion of how simultaneous scientific and religious changes entail new understandings of body, soul, and personhood.