BIO
Christos Lynteris holds the chair in Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, and is the Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Investigator Award grant The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis (2019-2025). He was previously Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic (2013-2018). His research focuses on the anthropological and historical examination of epidemics with a particular focus on zoonotic diseases, epidemiological epistemology, visual medical culture, and colonial medicine. Focusing on diseases that spread between animals and humans, his research has been foundational in the establishment of the anthropological study of zoonosis. He is the author five books the most recent being Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography (MIT Press, 2022), and, co-authored with Lukas Engelmann, Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation (MIT Press, 2020).