Sheryl Wombell

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, supervised by Professors Emma Spary and Lauren Kassell. My research looks at the production, management, and circulation of information about health and healing in a seventeenth-century network of displaced elites. Focused on three microhistorical case studies of men moving across geographical space and between medical cultures, it explores early modern notions of trust and reliability, as well as the paper tools and social technologies used to navigate knowledge of the body.

Prior to undertaking PhD study, I worked in the heritage sector and in academic library services. I received my BA in History from Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 2013, and completed an MA in Historical Research at the University of Sheffield in 2018.