Graduate Student, History
PhD Candidate
Thesis Title: 'Curiously and Most Exquisitely Painted': Body Marking in the British Empire, 1576-1800
J.D. Alsop
About
In my dissertation I build upon my previous work on the intellectual implications of early modern cross-cultural contact. I begin with the first British images of, and reactions to, the marked Indigenous peoples of the New World and end with the tattoo’s eventual introduction into the British Navy as a recognized form of social expression. My analysis centres on reactions to encounters in travel literature published in Britain as well as Admiralty and Marine Society records in order to explore the British representations of marked bodies throughout the late sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Contact Information
What is Following?
Following Joel's work means that, in your Academia.edu News Feed, you will see Joel's:
- status updates
- new papers
- new research interests
and other research updates.
