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Richard Firth-Godbehere is a Wellcome Trust-funded Researcher at Queen Mary University of London. His work focuses on the history of emotions, particularly the prehistory of disgust from 1600-1760, and the intersection of language, psychology, and cultural understandings of aversive emotions.
Education:
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History and History of Ideas from Goldsmiths, University of London (First Class Honours)
- Master of Philosophy in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge, focusing on aversion in 17th-century English medicine
Research Interests:
- Early modern cultural and intellectual history of emotions
- Historical universality of emotions like disgust
- Medical terminology and conceptual shifts in emotion studies
Publications reflect interdisciplinary exploration of emotions across history, technology, and medicine. His articles critique universalist assumptions in emotion psychology and trace the evolution of emotional concepts.
Awards:
- Two Reverend Peter Galloway Awards for Academic Excellence during his undergraduate studies
His doctoral thesis explores how aversions were conceptualized as opposites of desire during a period of profound cultural change, culminating in the emergence of modern disgust concepts.
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