Celeste Chamberland

About Me

As a long-time faculty member at Roosevelt, I am honored to have the experience of working with a vibrant community of students and colleagues. I teach a variety of courses in world history, the history of medicine, and the history of early modern Europe, including the following:

• HIST 110 "History of Identity: Self, Society, and the State"
• HIST 111 "The World to 1500"
• HIST 301 "The History of Public Health"
• HIST 302 "Saints and Sinners in Reformation Europe"
• HIST 310 "Europe from Absolutism to Revolution"
• HIST 320 "Drugs in World History"
• HIST 341 "Epidemics and Urban Culture in World History from 1300 to the Present"
• HIST 344 "The History of Medical Racism"
• HIST 345 "The History of Mental Illness"
• HIST 347 "Rebels, Witches, and Monarchs in Early Modern England"
• HIST 360 "Gender, Race, and Power in the Atlantic World"
• HIST 438 "Graduate Readings Seminar in Atlantic World Historiography"

In addition to my work in the classroom and as Program Director for the History and International Studies Programs, I am also a scholar of the history of medicine, early modern Europe, and the Atlantic world with an emphasis on gender, race, and cultural history. My published research has focused on gender and the professionalization of surgery, as well as the history of mental illness in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. My current research interests focus on the relationship between masculinity, medical moralizing, and the proto-medicalization of addiction within the context of emergent global capitalism.

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IlUtNqcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Selected Publications: 

• “Inclusivity and Neuro-divergence in the History Classroom,” American Historical Association Gateways to Completion Teaching Reflection series, 2023
• “An Enchanting Witchcraft: Gaming, Masculinity, and the Pathology of Addiction in Early Modern London,” in The Casino Games and Classic Card Games Reader: Communities, Cultures, and Play, eds. Mark Johnson et al. Bloomsbury, December, 2021.
• Vincenzo Russo, Erika Parente, Anna Rago, Angelo Comune, Nunzia Laezza, Andrea Antonio Papa, Celeste Chamberland, Thao Huynh, Paolo Golino, Michele Brignole, · Gerardo Nigro, “Cardioinhibitory syncope with asystole during nitroglycerin potentiated head up tilt test: prevalence and clinical predictors,” May 2022 Clinical Autonomic Research 32(17), 2022
• Vincenzo Russo, Enrico Melillo, Andrea Papa, Anna Rago, Celeste Chamberland, et al. "Arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in beta-thalassemia major patients: diagnostic tools and early markers," Cardiology Research and Practice Volume 2019, Article ID 9319832
• “The Booke and Arte: Surgical Education and Social Disciplining in Early Modern London,” History of Education Quarterly, 54 (2013).
• “Partners or Practitioners: Women and the Management of Surgical Households in Early Modern London,” Social History of Medicine, 24 (2011): 554-569.
• “Between the Hall and the Market: William Clowes and Surgical Self-Fashioning in Elizabethan London,” Sixteenth-Century Journal, 41 (2010), 69-89.
• “Honor, Brotherhood, and the Corporate Ethos of the London Barber-Surgeons’ Company, 1570- 1640,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64 (2009), 300-332.
• Byzantine Empire to the 20th Century in World History, Gale Researcher, 2017.

Podcasts

• “Transgender Through Time,” Roosevelt University, August 30, 2020 https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/ruprezali/2020/08/31/transgender-through-time/ 
• An Enchanting Witchcraft: Masculinity, Melancholy, and the Pathology of Gaming in Early Modern London, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, May 2015. https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/gaming_podcasts/66/