Nadja Durbach

Summary

Nadja Durbach is a professor of History at the University of Utah. She is a specialist of modern Britain and co-editor of the Journal of British Studies.[1] Her research, grounded in her first book, Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907(2005), focuses on immunization, vaccination, and alternative medicine politics in the nineteenth century.[2][3] Her research has also focused on the history of the body and food politics in Britain.[4][5] She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.[6]

Durbach received her B.A. from University of British Columbia in 1993 and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2001.[citation needed]

Books edit

  • Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain From the Workhouse to the Welfare State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).[7]
  • Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
  • Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).

References edit

  1. ^ ""Announcing our new JBS editors"". North American Conference on British Studies. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  2. ^ Ro, Christine (October 31, 2021). ""Why mandatory vaccination is nothing new"". BBC. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  3. ^ North, Anna. ""The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements"". Vox. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  4. ^ Zinoman, Jason (October 30, 2021). ""Why the Vampire Myth Won't Die"". New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. ^ Yale, Elizabeth. ""Why anti-vaccination movements can never be tamed"". Religion and Politics. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Nadja Durbach Wins John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016". University of Utah.
  7. ^ Earl, Elizabeth (July 15, 2015). ""The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Movement"". The Atlantic. Retrieved 16 January 2023.