Kyna Noelle Bullard
- PhD Student
- EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Advisor: Professor Dauverd • Kyna Noelle Bullard is a First Year PhD student whose research interests include the history of science and medicine, empire, and gender relations within early modern Europe. She earned a BA in History and Global Studies (Magna cum Laude) in 2021, and an MA in History in 2024 from Texas Tech University, under advisor Stefano D’Amico, PhD. Her Master’s Thesis, “Places Between Life and Death: Secular and Ecclesiastical Perspectives on Midwifery in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula,” explores how midwives’ practices were received and portrayed within the early modern cultural consciousness and in the records of institutions such as the Protomedicato and the Royal Colleges of Surgery. When she has free time, she enjoys writing fiction, hiking, and spending time with her cats.