By Mike Greife,
October 30, 2017
WARRENSBURG, MO 鈥� To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant
Reformation, the Department of History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Cross-Disciplinary
Studies at the 欧美视频 will host Kristy Wilson-Bowers, assistant
professor of history at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who will present a talk
titled "Dancing with Death: Plague and the Reformation" at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24
in Twomey Auditorium.
Wilson-Bowers is a specialist in Early Modern European history at MU. Her publications
include the book 鈥淧lague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville鈥� with the University
of Rochester Press in 2013, and have appeared in 鈥淭he Sixteenth Century Journal,"
"The Bulletin of the History of Medicine,鈥� and the "Encyclopedia of Plague, Pestilence,
and Pandemic."
The talk is free and open to the campus community and the public. It is sponsored
by a grant from the UCM Center for Teaching and Learning at UCM, the History and Religious
Studies programs within the Department of History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Cross-Disciplinary
Studies, The History Club, and the Department of Government, International Studies,
and Languages.
