Alisha Rankin

Alisha Rankin is an associate professor of history at Tufts University. She is coeditor, with Elaine Leong, of Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800, and the author of The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science and Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany, which won the 2014 Gerald Strauss Prize for Reformation History.