Topic: By way of trafficke and exchaunge: Metals and Providential History in Thomas Harriot’s “A briefe and true report” (1590)

Bio: Dr. Karin Amundsen is a historian of early modern Britain and the Atlantic World, focusing on the influence of alchemy and metallurgy in the development of English colonization. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California with support from the Institute of Historical Research, the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and the Omohundro Institute-Jamestown Rediscovery Center.

She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the key role alchemy and metallurgy played in stimulating and defining English colonization in the Americas during the time between Martin Frobisher’s arctic voyages and King Philip’s War.