Professional Summary
My name is Shepherd Aaron Ellis, and I am a Ph.D. Candidate as well as an Adjunct Instructor of History in the College of Arts & Sciences and Blue Ash. I primarily research how exotic animals impacted Europe, especially Britain and Spain, from 1550 to 1850. These animal shad an important role as entertainment, food, pets, scientific subjects, I have published on the natural history of alchemy and unicorns, as well as in the journal Animal History, and I have a forthcoming article in Renaissance Papers on Peter Lely, a seventeenth-century Dutch artist who worked in England. I am currently teaching sections of World History I, and a course of my own design, The Little Ice Age in the Atlantic World.
As a public historian, I was interviewed by Lucy May of 97.1 WXVU Cincinnati’s NPR Station and by Eddie and Rocky of 700 WLW Cincinnati’s News Radio to provide historical context during Elizabeth II’s death and Charles III’s coronation, respectively.
My downloadable CV contains links to each of my interviews and to my publications.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (In Progress): University of Cincinnati 2022 (History)
Master of Arts: University of Cincinnati 2022 (History)
Bachelor of Arts: University of North Carolina- Asheville 2020 (History)
Bachelor of Arts: University of North Carolina- Asheville 2020 (Classics)
Associate of Arts: South Piedmont Community College 2016
Other Information
Shepherd Aaron Ellis, CV,
Contact Information
Academic - ellissd@ucmail.uc.edu