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Dr. Mark Dawson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the Australian National University. He holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Auckland and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he received the History Faculty's Members' Prize for work on Samuel Pepys.
His research examines early modern Britain and the Anglo-Atlantic world, focusing on social inequality, the history of the body, health, medicine, and seventeenth-century English drama and literature. Current projects include studying the socio-cultural impact of smallpox in early modern Britain.
Dawson's publications explore cultural and intellectual history topics including the decline of astrology in Stuart England, early modern concepts of human variation, and the interpretation of historical manuscripts. His research methodologies combine textual analysis with cultural historical approaches.
He currently supervises postgraduate research on British women in port wine dynasties and tobacco's socio-cultural impact in early modern England. Previously supervised projects include studies of female fashion in Restoration England, uses of medieval past in seventeenth-century England, and cultural change in colonial New England environments.
Dawson leads the research project 'Living with Smallpox in Early Modern Britain (c.1580–1780 CE)' examining disease experiences and cultural impacts. His work contributes to understanding early modern social structures and intellectual transformations.
