Curriculum Vitae  Elizabeth A Fenn

Duke University Department of History Box 90719 Durham, NC 27708-0719 (919) 684-2192 efenn@duke.edu

Education

• PhD, 1999, Yale University
• BA, 1981, Duke University
• MA, 1985, Yale University

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• 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

• Executive Committee, Fall 2008 - present
• Office for Institutional Equity Harassment Grievance Board, Fall 2008 - present
• Undergraduate Curriculum Comittee, Fall 2007 - present
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 2008 - 2010
• George Washington Book Prize Committee, spring and summer 2008
• African Search Committee, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008
• “Touching History: An Interactive Exploration of Original Documents on the History of Disease in America,” hands-on session for Library Advisory Board, April 11, 2008
• “Duke Up Close Breakfast” for high-achieving prospective students, April 09, 2008
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2007-present
• George Washington Book Prize, 2007-2008
• African Search Committee, 2007-present
• H-Net H-NC Listserv, 2007
• School of American Research, Santa Fe, N.M., January 13, 2007 - January 14, 2007
• H-Net H-NC Listserv, 2006
• Rowman Littlefield Press, 2005
• Graduate Student Teaching Luncheons, 2005
• Advisor for history majors - 18 advisees, 2005
• Department Executive Committee, 2003 - 2005
• Military Search Committee, 2003-2004
• Advisor for history majors, 2004
• Middlesworth Prize Commmittee, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, 2004
• NYU Press, 2004
• North Carolina Historical Review, 2004
• Car Care Clinic, WEL Dormitory, April 10, 2004
• Going Public: Taking Humanities Scholarship to a Broader Audience, Panel for the Duke Univ. Press and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, February 10, 2004
• Responding to Current Events, Luncheon sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Writing, January 21, 2004

Selected Recent Talks and Lectures

• "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.

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 and Professional Lectures (listed separately)