John Thomas Conrad

John Thomas 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, 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 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 M.A. in History from WashU.

Research Interests:

Early Modern Germany and Bavaria; State Formation; History of Medicine, Disease, and Public Health; History of Ideas; Legal, Political, and Social History; and the Thirty Years War.