We are delighted to welcome Dr Anna Cusack as our keynote speaker. Anna will be talking about the incorporation of individuals and groups who fall into categories of marginalisation into discourse about early modern history and her own experience looking for the marginal dead.

 

Anna Cusack is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She completed her PhD at Birkbeck in 2021 funded by The Mercers Company Studentship for Doctoral Research on the History of London. Prior to this, she undertook a BA in history also at Birkbeck and an MPhil in early modern history at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research examined the marginalised dead of London during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, specifically the treatment of the remains of suicides, criminals, and religious outsiders such as Quakers and Jews.

 

She currently holds a research assistant position at the University of Leicester for the ‘Diversity and Change in South Wales’ project and another research assistant position with the University of Erfurt on the 'Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations' project. She is one of the ECR board members for History Journal and has also worked on the AHRC funded 'The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England' project along with being one of the historical consultants for the 'Execution' exhibition opening at the Museum of London Docklands in October this year. She co-runs a slightly neglected blog about the dead of early modern London and is currently juggling various other projects and jobs both inside and outside academia.