Cindy Ermus Assistant Professor of History, University of Lethbridge in Alberta
Cindy Ermus is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, where she teaches courses on early modern Europe, the Age of Revolutions, and the history of disasters. Her work looks at catastrophe and crisis management in eighteenth-century Europe and the Atlantic, especially revolution, “natural” disasters, and disease epidemics. She considers not only responses to crises and their effects, but understandings of disaster more generally. She is the editor of a forthcoming volume titled, Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience (LSU Press, Jan. 2018). Her monograph (in progress) is a transnational study of the Plague of Provence of 1720 (the “Great Plague of Marseille”), one of the last outbreaks of plague in Western Europe. By tracing responses to the threat of infection throughout a network of major eighteenth-century port cities, she explores the ways in which the crisis influenced society, politics, and commerce beyond France, in neighboring regions, and in the Atlantic and Pacific colonies (for more, see her article in the Winter 2016 issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies). She is also co-founder, executive editor, and contributor at www.AgeofRevolutions.com (on Twitter @HistorioBLOG). Her professional website is http://history.utsa.edu/faculty/ermus-cindy