I am a graduate student studying early modern European history and the history of science.  I am writing a dissertation called "Banned Books: Medicine, Readers, and Censors in Early Modern Italy, 1559-1664" which examines the ways that many cutting-edge medical texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were first prohibited, then expurgated, and finally permitted to certain readers with licenses.  Methodologically, my research is based on both a traditional study of archival materials, primarily housed in the Archive of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, and a deep analysis of the expurgated books themselves informed by bibliographical techniques. I am involved in the Mapping the Republic of Letters project and Humanities + Design, and I appreciate how the digital humanities have added a macro lens to the close reading of my archival research.