John Conrad
Graduate Student in History
Status: Post-Qualification, ABD
Status: Post-Qualification, ABD
John Conrad is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests lay, in broad terms, in the political, legal, state, and medical history of early modern Germany. More specifically, he concentrates on the movement of philosophical ideas about the body politic into their actual implementation by the state. Moreover, he is focused on how the process of state formation through public health occurred in seventeenth-century Bavaria under the devout Catholic rule of Duke [after 1623 Elector] Maximilian I (r. 1597-1651).
John earned a B.A. and M.A. in History and European history respectively from Texas Tech University and an AM in History from WashU. He has received several research fellowships with the most recent coming from the Central European Historical Society (CEHS).