Amanda E. Herbert

Amanda E. Herbert is Assistant Professor of History at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the Johns Hopkins University, and completed her B.A. with Distinction in History and Germanics at the University of Washington. Her first book, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain, was published by Yale University Press in 2014. She is currently at work on her second book project, Spa: Faith, Public Health, and Science in Early Modern Britain. She lives in Portsmouth, Virginia.