Dean's Quarterly Diversity Seminar

We will be providing the ZOOM link for this event on Monday, June 8th.

Please join us for our Dean's Quarterly Diversity Seminar featuring Professor Jim Downs, who will give a talk titled, "Sick from Freedom: The Untold Story of the Spread of Infectious Disease among Formerly Enslaved People during the Civil War and Reconstruction.”

Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Studies and History at Gettysburg College and the author of Sick From Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, which was featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and many other media outlets. He is also the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, which charts the origins of epidemiology and is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. He earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.A., M.Phil. and PhD from Columbia University.

In 2015-16, he received an Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship that enabled him to go back to graduate school to do postgraduate training in medical anthropology at Harvard University.