Margaret Humphreys
| Title: | Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine |
| Office Location: | 206 Carr |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2285, 919 668 9000 |
| Email Address: | meh@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD History of Science Harvard University, 1983
- MD Harvard Medical School, 1987
- MA History of Science Harvard University, 1977
- BA Program of Liberal Studies University of Notre Dame, 1976
Research Interests
My major research interest is the history of disease in America, especially in the South. Until the last half of the twentieth century diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, pellagra, and hookworm marked the south as tropical, impoverished, and strikingly different from the rest of the United States. My recent work concerns the history of medicine in the American Civil war. I teach and read broadly in the history of public health, medicine, race, biology, and infectious diseases.
Awards/Recognitions
During the fall of 2009 I have been in residence at the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC) as a resident associate. In 2007 I was named to the Josiah Charles Trent Professorship in the History of Medicine. I've been honored to give several named lectureships, including the Rosen lecture at Yale, the Reynolds Lecture at University of Alabama Birmingham, and the Hudson Lecture at the University of Kansas Medical Center. I have received research support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Library of Medicine, the Burroughs-Wellcome History of Medicine Fund and the Trent Foundation
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Resident Scholar, National Humanities Center, September, 2009
- T. S. Cook Lecture, Inominate Club, Louisville, KY, May, 2008
- Timothy Donovan Lecturer, University of Arkansas, April, 2008
- Award nomination, Organization of American Historians, November, 2007
- Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, July, 2007
- Sally and Bruce Kantar Lecture, University of Minnesota, November, 2005
- Social Science Research Institute Fellow, Duke University, September 2005-May 2006
- Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship at the National Humanities Center, American Council of Learned Societies, February, 2004
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
Recent Publications
Papers Published- M. Humphreys. "How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South." Health Affairs (November, 2009).
- M. Humphreys, "Review of James L. A. Webb, Jr., Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Spring, 2010).
- M. Humphreys, "Review of Samuel Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation". American Historical Review (December, 2009).
- M. Humphreys, "Review of Kent Gramm, ed., Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat". North Carolina Historical Review (October, 2009).
- M. Humphreys, "Review of A. Fairchild, R. Bayer, and J. Colgrove, Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America". Technology and Culture 50 (Spring, 2009): 480-81.