Dr. Burton is a cultural historian of the Early Modern Atlantic World &holds a doctorate in Transatlantic History, specializing in the history of food and drink, specifically distillation and brewing.

Her book, “The Drunkard’s Progress: How Alcohol Became an Intoxicant in the Era of Enlightened Medicine,” focuses on alcohol as an intoxicant during the age of the Enlightenment & how it clashed with mainstream philosophy of the mid-17th century. All this leads to the concept behind modern addiction the