Dr Jamie Banks
Teaching Fellow in Medical History
Office: FAB 3.52
Office Hours: Thursdays, 10.00 - 12.00
Email: Jamie.Banks@warwick.ac.uk
Teaching
- HI907 Themes and Methods in Medical History (MA core module)
- HI991 Matters of Life and Death (MA core module)
- HI2E1: Historiography I (undergraduate second-year core module)
- HI2E2: Historiography II (undergraduate second-year core module)
- HI153 Making of the Modern World (undergraduate first-year core module)
- HI176 Mind, Body, and Society (undergraduate first-year option module)
Research
My research is broadly interested in the history of drugs in the British Empire and post-colonial Britain. My current research explores the histories of cannabis, race, and mental illness in post-war Britain, with a specific interest in the social and health inequalities experienced by Black communities in the 1980s and 1990s. I'm also revising my PhD into a book manuscript for McGill-Queens University Press, which explores how indentured migrants created new markets for opium across the British empire.
Professional Affiliations
- Reviews Editor - Social History of Alcohol and Drugs
- Co-convenor - JOINT Drugs History Network
Publications
Books:
Bound by Opium: Migrants and Markets across the British Empire, 1834 - 1912 [Under contract with McGill-Queens University Press].
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