Natacha Klein Kafer

Natacha Klein Kafer

Dr.

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

20152024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Short presentation

I am currently researching the interplay between health and privacy in the early modern period and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Beyond medical discourse on privacy, I focus on how popular healing knowledge survived in the private sphere despite the efforts to suppress these practices, paying particular attention to the relationship between popular healing and “official” medical knowledge, witch trials, the legal framing of healing practices, and colonial encounters. I am particularly interested in how health is framed in trans-continental and trans-imperial contexts of healing knowledge transmission and the cross-connections between health, death, superstition, secrecy, and privacy.

Education/Academic qualification

History, PhD, Freie Universität Berlin

25 Sep 201320 Feb 2017

Award Date: 20 Feb 2017

Religious Studies, MA, University of Erfurt

10 Oct 201111 Mar 2013

Award Date: 11 Mar 2013

History, BA, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

1 Mar 20055 Jan 2010

Award Date: 5 Jan 2010

External positions

Organizer at Contecte Humanidades Digitais UFSM, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

1 Sep 2024 → …