Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., Harvard University 1987
  • Ph.D., Harvard University 1983
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2011 - 2020
  • Associate Chair in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2019
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2006 - 2011
  • Josiah Charles Trent Distinguished Scholar of Medical Humanities, in the School of Medicine, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2009
  • Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 1999 - 2006
  • Associate Professor of History with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 - 2005
  • Josiah Charles Trent Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, School of Medicine, Duke University 2002 - 2004
  • Assistant Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1999
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Science Departments 1993 - 1999
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAR 30, 2020

    Department of History

    Epidemics in History: Stories of Cataclysm and Astonishing Advances

  • NOV 11, 2016

    Zika: What Can We Learn From Our Public Health History?

  • MAY 6, 2015

    Humphreys Wins Rosen Prize

  • OCT 21, 2014

    Philly.com

    Ebola and the Yellow Fever, scourges centuries apart.

  • JUL 1, 2014

    Duke Research Blog

    Margaret Humphreys on the Story of a Civil War African-American Doctor

  • JUN 16, 2014

    New Exhibit and Lecture Highlight Civil War Medicine

  • NOV 11, 2013

    Diagnosing the Civil War

  • SEP 5, 2013

    News & Observer

    Book Review: 'Marrow of Tragedy' examines Civil War-era medicine
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  Awards & Honors

  • George Rosen Prize. American Association for the History of Medicine. May 2, 2015
  • President. American Association for the History of Medicine. May 2014
  • Don Carlos Guffey Lecture in the History of Medicine. Kansas University Medical Center. April 2014
  • Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, Finalist. Gettysburg College and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. February 2014
  • Jack Stallworth lecture in Southern History. University of South Alabama. October 2013
  • Reynolds Lecture in the History of Medicine. University of Alabama Birmingham. March 2013
  • Saul A Schwartz AOA Day Distinguished Lecture. New York Medical College. February 2013
  • John C Burnham Lecture. Ohio State University. October 2010
  • Resident Scholar. National Humanities Center. 2009
  • T. S. Cook Lecture, Inominate Club, Louisville, KY. Inominate Club, Louisville, KY. May 2008
  • Timothy Donovan Lecturer, University of Arkansas. University of Arkansas. April 2008
  • Fellow. National Humanities Center. 2004
  • Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows. American Council of Learned Societies. 2004
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • African American soldiers
  • African Americans
  • Aged
  • American Civil War
  • Body Mass Index
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
  • Diabetic Diet
  • European Continental Ancestry Group
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Hookworm Infections
  • Insulin
  • Malaria
  • Male
  • Military Medicine
  • Occupations
  • Pellagra
  • Residence Characteristics
  • Southeastern United States
  • United States
  • Veterans Disability Claims
  • Yellow Fever
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Another March Madness: The American Cival War at 150 awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2011 - 2012
  • The Civil War and American Medicine awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2009 - 2010
  • Civil Rights and the Body in the American South: A History Conference awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2007 - 2008
  • The Civil War and American Medicine awarded by National Institutes of Health 2005 - 2008
  • Support for the Journal of the History of Medicine awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • History of Malaria in the American South, 1900-1950 awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1995 - 1996
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Humphreys, M. Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American civil war. Vol. 9781421410005, 2013.
    • Humphreys, M. Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War, 2008.
    • Humphreys, M. E. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
    • Humphreys, M. E. Yellow Fever and the South. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

  • Academic Articles

    • Duggan, Ana T., Jennifer Klunk, Ashleigh F. Porter, Anna N. Dhody, Robert Hicks, Geoffrey L. Smith, Margaret Humphreys, et al. “The origins and genomic diversity of American Civil War Era smallpox vaccine strains.” Genome Biology 21, no. 1 (July 2020): 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02079-z.
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    • Humphreys, M. “The influenza of 1918: Evolutionary perspectives in a historical context.” Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2018, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 219–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoy024.
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    • Duggan, Ana T., Maria F. Perdomo, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Stephanie Marciniak, Debi Poinar, Matthew V. Emery, Jan P. Buchmann, et al. “17^th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox.” Current Biology : Cb 26, no. 24 (December 2016): 3407–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.061.
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    • Humphreys, M. E. “This Place of Death: Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War.” Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 53, no. 3/4 (2016): 12–36.
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    • Humphreys, M. “17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox.” Current Biology, 2016, 3407–12.
    • Humphreys, M. “17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox.” Current Biology, 2016, 3407–12.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Bobby A Wintermute, Public Health and the U. S. Military.” Journal of the History of Medicine 66 (October 2011).
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Richard Reid, Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment.” H Net, June 2011.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Andrew Bell, Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever and the Course of the Civil War.” Journal of the Civil War Era 1 (March 2011): 122–23.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Jane M Schultz, This Birth Place of Souls.” Journal of the Civil War Era, 2011.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Deanne Stephens Nuwer, Plague among the Magnolias.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84 (2010): 301–3.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Samuel Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation.” American Historical Review, December 2009.
    • Humphreys, M. “How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South.” Health Affairs 28 (November 2009): 1734–44.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Kent Gramm, ed., Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat.” North Carolina Historical Review 86 (October 2009): 458–59.
    • Humphreys, M. “Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease: A Historical Perspective.” Mdadvisor 2 (2009): 16–21.
    • Humphreys, Margaret. “Telemedicine: climate change and mosquito-borne disease: a historical perspective.” Md Advisor : A Journal for New Jersey Medical Community 2, no. 2 (January 2009): 16–21.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of A. Fairchild, R. Bayer, and J. Colgrove, Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America.” Technology and Culture 50 (2009): 480–81.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Bert Hansen, Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America.” Journal of the American Medical Association 302 (2009): 2492–93.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of G. Schroeder-Lein, Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 42 (October 2008): 433–35.
    • Slater, Leo B., M. Humphreys, and M. Humphreys M. “Parasites and Progress: Ethical Decision-Making and the Santee-Cooper Malaria Study, 1944-49.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 51 (2008): 103–20.
    • Humphreys, Margaret, Philip Costanzo, Kerry L. Haynie, Truls Ostbye, Idrissa Boly, Daniel Belsky, and Frank Sloan. “Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans.” Soc Sci Med 64, no. 8 (April 2007): 1766–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.12.004.
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    • Martin, Mike G., and Margaret E. Humphreys. “Social consequence of disease in the American South, 1900-World War II.” Southern Medical Journal 99, no. 8 (August 2006): 862–64. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.smj.0000231265.03256.1f.
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    • Humphreys, M. “Quinine prophylaxis for malaria (1914): Commentary.” Public Health Reports 121, no. SUPPL. 1 (January 1, 2006): 80–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549061210s111.
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    • Westman, Eric C., William S. Yancy, and Margaret Humphreys. “Dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus in the pre-insulin era (1914-1922).” Perspect Biol Med 49, no. 1 (2006): 77–83. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2006.0017.
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    • Humphreys, M. “Review of John C. Burnham, What is Medical History?” Jama 295 (2006): 2540–41.
    • Humphreys, M. “A Stranger in our Camps: Typhus in American History.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80 (2006): 269–90.
    • Humphreys, M. “On Rats, Lice, and History.” Environmental History 10 (2005): 695–96.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Conevery Valencius, Health of the Country.” Medical History 49 (2005): 114–15.
    • Humphreys, M. “Book Review of Ansley Wegner, Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans.” North Carolina Historical Review 82 (2005): 91–93.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America.” Isis 95 (2004): 170–170.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of C D Pitcock and B J Gurley, eds. I acted from Principle: The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi.” Journal of Southern History 70 (2004): 175–76.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of James C. Whorton, Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America.” Isis 95 (2004): 170–170.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Howard Phillips and David Killingray, eds. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59 (2004): 490–91.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Charles Wooley, The Irritable Heart of Soldiers.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 960–61.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of David McBride, Missions for Science.” Journal of American History 90 (2003): 1070–71.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Robert Sallares, Malaria and Rome.” Environmental History 8 (2003): 701–2.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of John Roper, ed., Repairing the March of Mars.” Journal of Southern History 69 (2003): 716–17.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Gerald Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America.” J. American Medical Association 289 (2003): 2726–2726.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33 (2003): 501–2.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review: The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57, no. 3 (July 1, 2002): 368–69. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/57.3.368.
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    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Norma Mohr, Malaria: Evolution of a Killer.” New England Journal of Medicine 347 (2002): 1215–16.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations.” H Net Book Review, 2002.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Kenneth M. Ludmerer, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care.” Journal of the History of Medicine 57 (2002): 514–15.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “No Safe Place: Disease and Panic in American History.” American Literary History 14 (2002): 845–57.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Charles M. Poser and George Bruyn, An Illustrated History of Malaria.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75 (2001): 148–148.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Lester D. Stephens, Science, Race and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895.” Journal of American History, 2001, 641–42.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Susan Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 333–35.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Gertrude Fraser, African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory.” Medical History 44 (2000): 422–23.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999): 164–65.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999): 747–48.
    • Humphreys, M. “Water won't run uphill: the New Deal and malaria control in the American South, 1933-1940.” Parassitologia 40, no. 1–2 (June 1998): 183–91.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Water Won’t Run Uphill: The New Deal and Malaria Control in the American South, 1933-1940.” Parassitologia 40 (1998): 183–92.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Katherine Ott, Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870.” Social History 23 (1998): 128–128.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Robin Henig, The People’s Health: A Memoir of Public Health and its evolution at Harvard.” Medical History 42 (1998): 267–68.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Robert L. Blakely and Judith Harrington, eds., Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training.” North Carolina Historical Review 75 (1998): 339–40.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews, eds., Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72 (1998): 804–5.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of David Rothman, Steve Marcus and Stephanie Kiceluk eds, Medicine and Western Civilization; and William Rothstein, ed. Readings in American Health Care.” Medical History 41 (1997): 234–36.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Joel Howell, Technology in the Hospital.” Jama 276 (1996): 424–424.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Guy Settipane, Columbus and the New World.” Journal of the History of Medicine 51 (1996): 369–70.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Antonio McDaniel, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Southern History 62 (1996): 582-583.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Harold D. Langley, A History of Medicine in the Early US Navy.” Medical History 40 (1996): 396–97.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Sheila Rothman, Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness.” Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences 32 (1996): 235–36.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Jo Ann Carrigan, The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana.” Journal of Southern History 62 (1996): 121–22.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Ken DeBevoise, Agents of the Apocalypse.” Journal of the History of Medicine 51 (1996): 99–100.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Adell Patton, Jr., Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa.” Journal of the History of Medicine 51 (1996): 512–13.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Curtis M. Hinsley, The Smithsonian and the American Indian.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1996.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Kicking a Dying Dog: DDT and the Demise of Malaria in the American South, 1942-1952.” Isis 87 (1996): 1–17.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Khaled Bloom, The Mississippi Valley’s Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.” Academic Medicine 69 (1994): 276–276.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of J. Stuart Moore, Chiropractic in America.” New England Journal of Medicine 331 (1994): 283–283.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Eugene Link, The Social Ideas of American Physicians.” Medical History 38 (1994): 349–50.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Francois Delaporte, The History of Yellow Fever.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 67 (1993): 185–86.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of John Salvaggio, New Orleans Charity Hospital: A Story of Physicians, Politics, and Poverty.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 67 (1993): 599–600.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Patricia Watson, The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-physicians of Colonial New England.” New England Journal of Medicine 328 (1993): 820–820.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.” Journal of the History of Medicine 48 (1993): 342–43.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Albert E. Cowdrey, War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine.” Academic Medicine 68 (1993): 659–60.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Fitzhugh Mullan, Plagues and Peoples: The story of the US Public Health Service.” Isis 82 (1991): 412–13.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of Christopher Hoolihan, An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection.” Isis 82 (1991): 314–314.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Sydney Halpern, American Pediatrics.” Journal of the History of Medicine 45 (1990): 122–23.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Norman Gevitz, Other Healers.” New England Journal of Medicine 321 (1989): 196–196.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Review of Guy Williams, The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800.” The Journal of the History of Medicine 43 (1988): 121–121.
    • Humphreys, M. E., and M. E. Humphreys M. “Letters from a Young Physician: James Jackson, Jr. and His Two Medical Fathers.” Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin 60 (1986): 40–45.
    • Humphreys, M. E., and M. E. Humphreys M. “Hunting the Yellow Fever Germ: The Principle and Practice of Etiological Proof in Late Nineteenth-Century America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 59 (1985): 361–82.
    • Humphreys, M. E., and M. E. Humphreys M. “Local Control vs National Interest: The Debate over Southern Public Health, 1878-1884.” Journal of Southern History 50 (1984): 407–28.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Vindicating the Minister’s Medical Role: Cotton Mather’s Concept of the Nishmath Chajim and the Spiritualization of Medicine.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 36 (1981): 278–95.
    • Humphreys, M. “Review of James L. A. Webb, Jr., Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, n.d.

  • Book Sections

    • Humphreys, M. “Malaria in america.” In The Global Challenge of Malaria: Past Lessons and Future Prospects, 3–18, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814405584_0001.
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    • Humphreys, M. “"Malaria," "Typhus," and "Yellow Fever".” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History, edited by Hugh Slotten. Oxford University Press, 2011.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Beware the Poor Historian.” In Clio in the Clinic, edited by Jaclyn Duffin, 226–35. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
    • Humphreys, M. “H. R. Carter, ’Quinine Prophylaxis for Malaria’, commentary.” In Public Health Reports Historical Collection, edited by Robert A. Rinsky, 80–80. Association of Schools of Public Health, 2005.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis.” In Using Bodies: Humans in the Service of Twentieth Century Medicine, edited by Lara Marks and Jordan Goodman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “"Yellow Fever" and "Malaria".” In The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul Boyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
    • Humphreys, M. E., and M. E. Humphreys M. “Biography of "Walter Reed," and entry on "Yellow Fever".” In The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, edited by Marc Rothenberg. New York: N.Y.: Garland Publishing Inc, 2001.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Biographies of "James Lawrence Cabell," "Jerome Cochran," "Henry Rose Carter," "John Maynard Woodworth," and "Stanford Emerson Chaille".” In American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Yellow Fever Since 1793: History and Historiography.” In A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic, edited by J Worth Estes and Billie Smith, 183–98. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1997.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Essays on "Chlorosis," "Dengue," "Malaria," "Tuberculosis," "Typhoid Fever," and "Yellow Fever".” In Plague, Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History, edited by Kenneth F. Kiple. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1997.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Public Health in the Old South.” In Science and Medicine in the Old South, edited by Ronald L. Numbers and Todd Savitt. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1989.
    • Humphreys, M. E. “Biographies of Edward Hammond Clarke, William Augustus Hinton, James Lloyd, Cotton Tufts and Paul Dudley White.” In Dictionary of American Medical Biography, edited by Martin Kaufman et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • HISTORY 371: Feast and Famine: Food in Global History 2023
  • MEDHUM 301B: Research in MEDHUM 2023
  • SCISOC 371: Feast and Famine: Food in Global History 2023
  • GLHLTH 174: Introduction to the History of Medicine 2022
  • GLHLTH 203: History of Global Health 2022
  • HISTORY 113: Introduction to the History of Medicine 2022
  • HISTORY 203: History of Global Health 2022
  • HISTORY 393: Research Independent Study 2022
  • MEDHUM 301B: Research in MEDHUM 2022
  • HISTORY 371: Feast and Famine: Food in Global History 2021
  • MEDHUM 301B: Research in MEDHUM 2021
  • SCISOC 371: Feast and Famine: Food in Global History 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • The History of Medicine in the American Civil War; Don Carlos Guffey Lecture. April 11, 2014  2014
  • Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War. November 19, 2013  2013
  • Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War. October 1, 2013  2013
  • Medical Treatment of Black Soldiers during the Civil War. February 11, 2013  2013
  • 'Of Wards and War': The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War. September 27, 2012  2012
  • The USSC and Southern Prisoners of War. June 15, 2012  2012
  • Commentator, Changing Ideas about Nutrition and Health. May 5, 2012  2012
  • Moderator, session on Medical Practice in the 19th Century. April 28, 2012  2012
  • 'Of Wards and War': The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War. March 18, 2012  2012
  • Another March Madness: The American Civil War at 150. March 18, 2012  2012
  • 'Of Wards and War': The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War. February 29, 2012  2012
  • Medicine in the American Civil War. February 2, 2012  2012
  • Not as Bad as You Think: Medicine in the American Civil War. April 22, 2011  2011
  • Intensely Human, the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War. National Library of Medicine. April 19, 2011  2011
  • Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War. April 9, 2011  2011
  • Arnold Zuckerman lecture: Intensely Human, the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War. March 23, 2011  2011
  • Intensely Human, the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War. March 22, 2011  2011
  • Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War. October 1, 2010  2010
  • Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War. October 1, 2010  2010
  • Not as Bad as You Think (or, the Life and Times of a Civil War Hospital). June 1, 2010  2010
  • Making the Micro Monstrous. May 1, 2010  2010
  • The South's Secret Weapons. April 1, 2010  2010
  • Alternative Southern Realities: African Americans in the American Civil War. March 1, 2010  2010
  • Harry Potter's World. September 1, 2009  2009
  • Broadcasting Evil:Propaganda and Prisoners of War in 1864. April 6, 2009  2009
  • African American Surgeons in the American Civil War. April 1, 2009  2009
  • McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History. February 24, 2009  2009
  • Faculty Bookwatch Colloquium on Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War. December 3, 2008  2008
  • North Carolina Mosquito and Vector Control Association. November 13, 2008  2008
  • The Eradication of Malaria in the U.S.. November 7, 2008  2008
  • 6th University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ Foundation Lecture. October 15, 2008  2008
  • Roanoke-Chowan 60th Anniversary Symposium. September 26, 2008  2008
  • Delegate for AAHM, American Council of Learned Societies Meeting. May 15, 2008  2008
  • Creating Comfort out of Chaos: Medical Care in Civil War Kentucky. May 13, 2008  2008
  • American Association for the History of Medicine. April 10, 2008  2008
  • The South's Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment and the Civil War. April 2, 2008  2008
  • Civil Rights and the Body. February 29, 2008  2008
  • Diabetes a Century Ago: Lessons for our Time. January 25, 2008  2008
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Volunteer lecturer. Local Civil War interest groups. November 7, 2012  2012
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  Service to the Profession

  • President, American Association for the History of Medicine. May 2014 - May 2016  2014 - 2016
  • Grant Reviewer : American Council of Learned Societies. November 7, 2012  2012
  • Vice President : American Association for the History of Medicine. 2012 - 2014  2012 - 2014
  • Vice President. American Association for the History of Medicine. 2012 - 2014  2012 - 2014
  • Ad hoc committee member : National Institutes of Health; National Institute on Aging grant review. November 18, 2011  2011
  • AAHM Lifetime Achievement Award Committee. 2011 - May 2012  2011 - 2012
  • Society of Civil War Historians. October 14, 2010  2010
  • Grant referee : National Humanities Center. November 14, 2008  2008
  • Reviewed four different complete book manuscripts for university presses. : Scholarly press book reviewer. November 14, 2008  2008
  • member : Travel Grant Committee, American Association for the History of Medicine. September 1, 2008 - May 1, 2011  2008 - 2011
  • Reviewer of Robert Fogel, Early Indicators Program Grant renewal : Peer review panel, National Institute on Aging, NIH. March 30, 2008  2008

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