Margaret E. Humphreys, History and Medical Center
| Office Location: | 206 Carr |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2285, 919 668 9000 |
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Teaching (Spring 2025):
- HISTORY 203.01, HISTORY OF GLOBAL HEALTH
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 240, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
Synopsis
- TBA, 12:00 AM-12:00 AM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
Synopsis
- TBA, 12:00 AM-12:00 AM
- Education:
M.D. Harvard University 1987 Ph.D. Harvard University 1983 MA History of Science Harvard University 1977 BA Program of Liberal Studies University of Notre Dame 1976
- Specialties:
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Medicine, Science and Technology
Intellectual History
United States and Canada
- 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. After completing projects on the history of malara and yellow fever, I'm in the early stages of research on the history of medicine in the Civil War. I teach and read broadly in the history of public health, medicine, race, biology, and infectious diseases.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Duggan, AT; Klunk, J; Porter, AF; Dhody, AN; Hicks, R; Smith, GL; Humphreys, M; McCollum, AM; Davidson, WB; Wilkins, K; Li, Y; Burke, A; Polasky, H; Flanders, L; Poinar, D; Raphenya, AR; Lau, TTY; Alcock, B; McArthur, AG; Golding, GB; Holmes, EC; Poinar, HN. The origins and genomic diversity of American Civil War Era smallpox vaccine strains.. Genome biology 21.1 (July, 2020): 175. [doi] [abs]
- Humphreys, M. The influenza of 1918: Evolutionary perspectives in a historical context. Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2018.1 (January, 2018): 219-229. [doi] [abs]
- Humphreys, ME. This Place of Death: Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War. Southern Quarterly: a journal of the arts in the South 53.3/4 (2016): 12-36.
- Humphreys, M. 17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox. Current Biology 26.24 (2016): 3407-3412. [doi] [abs]
- M. Humphreys. Review of Shauna Devine, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science.. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Forthcoming).