Rachel Midura
Department
Rachel Midura received her PhD from Stanford University History Department in 2020. She is an assistant professor of digital history at Virginia Tech.
Midura brings twenty-first-century understanding of media and social networks to the political and cultural history of the early modern period.
Recent articles featured in collected volumes such as The Renaissance of Letters and Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World.
She is currently at work on her first book on early modern surveillance, espionage, and the origins of Europe’s postal systems.
Additional projects include conversion tools for early modern distance and currency, and research on state letter interception and travel control.