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Nadja Durbach

American professor of History From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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Books

  • 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).

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