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Margaret Ellen Humphreys

Margaret Ellen Humphreys

Josiah Charles Trent Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Medicine, in the School of Medicine
History
meh@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
206 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances

The History of Medicine in the American Civil War; Don Carlos Guffey Lecture · April 11, 2014 Lecture Kansas University Medical Center
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War · November 19, 2013 Lecture Duke University
Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War · October 1, 2013 Lecture University of South Alabama
Medical Treatment of Black Soldiers during the Civil War · February 11, 2013 Lecture New York Medical College
'Of Wards and War': The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War · September 27, 2012 Lecture American Association for the History of Nursing, Plenary Address, Savannah, GA
The USSC and Southern Prisoners of War · June 15, 2012 Lecture Lexington Kentucky
Commentator, Changing Ideas about Nutrition and Health · May 5, 2012 Lecture NCSU, Raleigh, NC
Moderator, session on Medical Practice in the 19th Century · April 28, 2012 Lecture Baltimore, MD
'Of Wards and War': The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War · March 18, 2012 Lecture Duke University
Another March Madness: The American Civil War at 150 · March 18, 2012 Lecture Duke University, Durham, NC
'Of Wards and War': The Importance of Good (and Bad) Medical Care in the American Civil War · February 29, 2012 Lecture New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York
Medicine in the American Civil War · February 2, 2012 Lecture Online seminar hosted by National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
Not as Bad as You Think: Medicine in the American Civil War · April 22, 2011 Lecture Duke Medical Student Colloquia, Durham,NC
Intensely Human, the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War · April 19, 2011 Lecture National Library of Medicine, Washington, DC
Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War · April 9, 2011 Lecture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Arnold Zuckerman lecture: Intensely Human, the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War · March 23, 2011 Lecture Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
Intensely Human, the Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War · March 22, 2011 Lecture University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War · October 1, 2010 Lecture Emory University
Disease as Weapon in the American Civil War · October 1, 2010 Lecture Ohio State University
Not as Bad as You Think (or, the Life and Times of a Civil War Hospital) · June 1, 2010 Lecture Society of Civil War Historians, Richmond
Making the Micro Monstrous · May 1, 2010 Lecture London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The South's Secret Weapons · April 1, 2010 Lecture North Carolina Museum of History
Alternative Southern Realities: African Americans in the American Civil War · March 1, 2010 Lecture Kennesaw State University
Harry Potter's World · September 1, 2009 Lecture Durham County Public Library
Broadcasting Evil:Propaganda and Prisoners of War in 1864 · April 6, 2009 Lecture SSRI Research Seminar, Duke University
African American Surgeons in the American Civil War · April 1, 2009 Lecture Duke University Medical Center
McPherson-Mitchell Lecture in Southern History · February 24, 2009 Lecture Troy University, Troy, Alabama
Faculty Bookwatch Colloquium on Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War · December 3, 2008 Lecture John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham,NC
North Carolina Mosquito and Vector Control Association · November 13, 2008 Lecture Raleigh, NC
The Eradication of Malaria in the U.S. · November 7, 2008 Lecture Conference on the Global Crisis of Malaria, Yale University, New Haven, CT
6th University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ Foundation Lecture · October 15, 2008 Lecture Princeton, NJ
Roanoke-Chowan 60th Anniversary Symposium · September 26, 2008 Lecture
Delegate for AAHM, American Council of Learned Societies Meeting · May 15, 2008 Lecture Pittsburg, PA
Creating Comfort out of Chaos: Medical Care in Civil War Kentucky · May 13, 2008 Lecture Inominate Club, Louisville, KY
American Association for the History of Medicine · April 10, 2008 Lecture Rochester, NY
The South's Secret Weapons: Disease, Environment and the Civil War · April 2, 2008 Lecture Timothy Donovan Lecture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Civil Rights and the Body · February 29, 2008 Lecture University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Diabetes a Century Ago: Lessons for our Time · January 25, 2008 Lecture Duke University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Volunteer lecturer - Local Civil War interest groups · November 7, 2012 Other Service to the Community

Service to the Profession

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