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Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth A FennClick here for a printer-ready version, or
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Duke University
Department of History
Box 90719
Durham, NC 27708-0719
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(919) 684-2192 (office)
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- Education
| PhD | Yale University | 1999 |
| MA | Yale University | 1985 |
| BA | Duke University | 1981 |
- Areas of Interest
- Epidemic disease
Early North America
Native American
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University, 2008 - 2009
Bass Chair/Bass Society of Fellows, Duke University, 2009
ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellow, 2005
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2005-2006
Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize, (triennial award for the best book on the Revolutionary era), 2004
Longman-History Today Book of the Year, (joint winner), awarded by the British history magazine History Today and education publisher Longman, 2003
James J. Broussard First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2002
Annual Publication Award, Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia, 2001
Binkley-Stephenson Award, (best Journal of American History article), Organization of American Historians, 2001
Frederick W. Beinecke Dissertation Prize, Yale University, 1999
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award, (best grad student essay), Organization of American Historians, 1999
University Fellow, Yale University, 1984–1985
James Harvey Robinson Prize, corecipient, American Historical Association, 1984
William T. Laprade Prize in History, (best honors essay), Duke University, 1981
- Professional Service
- Departmental Officer
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 2008 - 2010
- Departmental Committee
- Department Executive Committee, 2008 - 2010
- Undergraduate Curriculum Comittee, 2007 - 2010
- University Committee
- John Richards Global History Lectureship Committee, 2010
- SISS Faculty Focus Group, 2010
- Office of Institutional Equity Harassment Grievance Board, 2008 - 2010
- Service to the Profession
- Manuscript review for The Massachusetts Historical Review, 2011
- Manuscript review for The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2010
- Service to the Community
- Teacher training session on smallpox for the Edmonds, Washington, School District, February 25, 2011
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- "Mandan History as American History", keynote address to the 68th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Bismarck, North Dakota, October 08, 2010
- "The Mandans: An Environmental History", Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., September 08, 2010
- “Ecological Encounters on the Upper Missouri: The Making of Mandan Indian History,” Thomas Langford Award Lecture, Duke University,, March 17, 2009
- “A Revolutionary Pestilence: The Great Smallpox Contagion of 1775–1782, Ecology of Disease Lecture Series, Biological Sciences Department, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., March 09, 2009
- Pox Americana, Bullitt History of Medicine Club, Duke/UNC Collaborative Speaker Series, Chapel Hill, N.C., October 21, 2008.
- A Revolutionary Contagion: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, Keynote Address, "Turning Points/Tipping Points," Seventh Annual Idaho Council for History Education Conference, Boise, Id., October 04, 2007
- Computer Research Methods Presentation, Graduate Seminar on the History of the West, Yale University, New Haven, Ct., January 24, 2007
- Encounter at the Heart of the World, Presentation to Western History Lunch Group, Yale University, January 24, 2007, New Haven, Ct., January 24, 2007
- Computer Research Methods Presentation, Graduate Seminar on the History of the West, Yale University, January 20, 2005
- The Rise and Fall of the Mandan Nation, Presentation to Western History Lunch Group, Yale University, January 20, 2005
- A Revolutionary Contagion: Smallpox and the Reshaping of North America, 1775-82, When Disease Makes History, Conference at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, October 15, 2004
- Smallpox and American Independence, Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House, Washington, D.C., September 18, 2004
- The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., September 16, 2004
- American Legacy Exposition History Symposium, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Mandan, N.D., July 30, 2004
- Keynote Address, First Annual North Carolina Epi Teams Conference, "Epidemiology at Work," Chapel Hill, N.C., June 15, 2004
- George Washington Symposium 2004, The Lyceum, Alexandria, Virginia, February 7, 2004
- Grand Rounds, Infectious Diseases Division, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., February 2, 2004
- A Continental Contagion: The Great North American Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82, Thursday Series Seminar of Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and University Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Duke University, 6 December 2003
- Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association and the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, Annual Meeting, 14 November 2003
- Grand Rounds, 25th Anniversary of the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 19 September 2003
- Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82, 2003–2004 Science Faculty Seminar Series, Durham Technical Community College, 27 August 2003
- Did He or Didn’t He? Jeffery Amherst, Smallpox, and 18th-Century Germ Warfare, Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War, Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., 17 May 2003
- Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series, Duke Center for the Study of Medical Ethics & Humanities, Durham, N.C., 26 March 2003
- Smallpox, Past and Present: An Old Virus in a New World, 2003 Humanities Symposium (on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World), Loyola College, Baltimore, Md., 26 February 2003
- Revolutionary Contagion: Smallpox and the Reshaping of North America, 1775–1782, Weight of War Lecture Series, Duke University, Durham, N.C., 29 January 2003
- Grand Rounds, Department of Dermatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., 11 December 2002
- The Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82, UNC School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, N.C., 14 November 2002
- Virus of Empire: How Smallpox Reshaped Revolutionary America, Ramazzini Colloquium Lecture. St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, N.C., 14 November 2002
- High Country Nexus: Smallpox, History, and the Eighteenth-Century West, Keynote address, Third Annual Conference on Medical History of the American West, Bozeman, Montana, 29 October 2002
- Pox Americana, Washington College, Starr Center, Chestertown, Md., 6 February 2002
- Pox Americana, History of Medicine Seminar, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., 19 December 2001
- Annual Stafford Lecture, Department of History, University of Richmond, Richmond, Va., 22 October 2001
- Pox Americana: The Great North American Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782, Columbia University Seminar on Early American History and Culture, New York, N.Y., 30 November 2000
- Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst, Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar at the University of South Florida Department of History, Tampa, Fla., 30 October 1999
- Biological Warfare in Eighteenth-Century America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst, Michigan Colonial Studies Seminar and Michigan History of Medicine & Health Colloquium, Ann Arbor, Mich, 30 March 1999
- Jonkonnu in North Carolina, Smithsonian Institution, Caribbean Festival Arts Exhibition, Washington, D.C., 15 September 1989
- ‘A Perfect Equality Seemed to Reign’: Slave Society and Jonkonnu, Historical Society of North Carolina, Annual Meeting, October, 1986
- African Decorative Traditions in Black Graveyards of the U.S., Harvard University, Dept. of History, Cambridge, Mass., Spring, 1984
- Computer Research Methods Presentation, Graduate Seminar on the History of the West, Yale University,, January 2007, 2007
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- C. Thomas Long (GWU), Green Water Revolution: The War for American Independence on the Waters of the Southern Chesapeake Theater, (2002 - 2005)
- David Porter (GWU), James Wilkinson and Kentucky Separatism, (2001-2007)
- Publications (listed separately)
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