Lukas Engelmann is a historian of medicine and postdoctoral scholar at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. In May 2014, Lukas Engelmann was appointed post-doctoral research associate at CRASSH, working on the visual representations of plague in North and South America. He has published various articles in the history of science and medicine, gender and visual studies and organized a series of workshops on knowledge-politics and AIDS/HIV. His current research focuses on plague mapping, the history of medical geography and the historical comparison of the plague-driven enforcement of bacteriology in public health reasoning in North and South America.