View from the Solovetsky Monastery, Northern Russia. Photo credit Clare Griffin

Publications for a General Audience

I regularly share my research on the global history of premodern science over on Twitter, appear on podcasts, and publish open access blogs and articles written for the general public. Please contact me here for writing or interview requests.

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Podcasts and Videos

Episode 47, 'Sassafras and Human Flesh,' Untenured Tracks. Listen here.

'Clare Griffin on Histories of Medicine, Trade, and Translation in the Early Modern Russian Empire,' The Global History Podcast. Listen here.

History of Science ON CALL - a history of science response to the COVID-19 pandemic
My video in Russian
My video in English

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Blogs and Articles

Here are some of my publications on the history of science written for a general audience:

'Such a Pretty Tsaritsa'

'Bodies Without Pain: Examining Soldiers’ Wounds in Early Modern Russia'

'Human Remains in Russia'

'Of Roots and Scrolls'

'Re-Centering Europe'

'What's in a Vodka? Juniper Vodkas and the History of Distilling in Russia'

'Russian Recipes'

‘How to Heal a Foreigner in Early Modern Russia’