I am an art historian of French art and visual culture. I specialise in images of drug use and addiction in the 19th and early 20th century. I am a lecturer in nineteenth-century French art history at the University of Edinburgh.
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My monograph, Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris,1870-1914, is out now.
"I have been waiting for a book that looked closely at depictions of female drug users from a feminist, art-historical perspective. Hannah Halliwell’s Art, Medicine, and Femininity is that book. The writing is elegant and accessible. There is no jargon here, only clear, insightful prose about an impressive range of images and artworks, most of which I have never seen before. It is a feminist art historian’s paradise on the visual culture of addiction. It will be crucial reading for historians of drugs and addiction discourse, as well as gender studies scholars concerned with the ways women have been pathologized through text and image." Julia Skelly, in SHAD
I am the Reviews Editor for the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs journal.
If you are a recent author of a book relating to alcohol or drugs history, or you would like to be a reviewer for the journal, please email
