Sebestian Kroupa

Sebestian Kroupa serves as an Assistant Professor in McGill University's Department of Social Studies of Medicine. His academic appointments include Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge and research fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; and the Natural History Museum, London.

Dr. Kroupa specializes in the history of pre-modern medicine with focus on Indian and Pacific Ocean contexts. His research examines colonial medical encounters, conceptions of the body, and global circulations of medical knowledge. Key areas include Indigenous tattooing practices in the Philippines, Renaissance monstrosity studies, and cross-cultural knowledge exchange networks in Indo-Pacific islands. His current monograph investigates the commodification and globalization of Philippine medicinal substances in the early modern era.

His publication record demonstrates consistent output in high-impact history journals, with thematic emphasis on colonial medicine, cross-cultural encounters, and early modern knowledge networks. Articles span historical periods from Renaissance geography to 18th-century Philippine pharmacology, revealing methodological strengths in analyzing long-distance knowledge transfer and Indigenous-European medical interactions.

• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

Dr. Kroupa currently teaches HIST 249 (Health and Healer in Western History) and HIST 432/HIST 641 (Topics in Pre-Modern Medicine), integrating his research on global medical history into undergraduate and graduate curricula. His work bridges historical scholarship with contemporary discussions about medical pluralism and knowledge sovereignty.