Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rana Hogarth: 'The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies: Lessons From the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania'

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NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 4:30pm

The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research is pleased to sponsor a series of conversations:

Epidemics and African American Communities from 1793 to the Present  -- Hosted by Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds

Leading scholars in public health, the history of medicine, and African American Studies will join Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds in conversations about the historical and contemporary impact of epidemic diseases on African American communities in the United States.

Our second event, The Myth of Innate Racial Differences Between White and Black People’s Bodies: Lessons From the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Conversation with Rana Hogarth will be held on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 4:30pm EDT via Zoom. (note time change)

Rana Hogarth is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on the medical and scientific constructions of race during the era of slavery and beyond. She is the author of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (2017)

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Past Sessions:

April 9, 2020 Epidemics and Health Disparities in African American Communities: A Conversation with David R. Williams  Hosted by Evelynn M. Hammonds Watch Webcast

 

Future sessions:

Thursday, April 23, 4pm Jim Downs, Professor of History, Connecticut College Author of: Sick From Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War an Reconstruction (2012)   Thursday, April 30, 4pm Vanessa Northington Gamble, University Professor of Medical Humanities, George Washington University Author of: “’There Wasn’t a Lot of Comfort in Those Days:’ African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic” Public Health Reports (2010)   Thursday, May 7, 4pm Samuel K. Roberts, Associate Professor of History and of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Author of: Infectious Fear:  Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (2009)

 

Evelynn M. Hammonds is a member of the faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She was the first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard (2005-2008).  From 2008-2013 she served as Dean of Harvard College. She holds honorary degrees from Spelman College and Bates College. Professor Hammonds is the director of the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. Professor Hammonds earned a Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University, an S.M. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a B.E.E. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in physics from Spelman College. In 2010 she was appointed to President Barack Obama’s Board of Advisers on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and in 2014 to the President’s Commission on Excellence in Higher Education for African Americans.  She has published articles on the history of disease, race and science, African American feminism, African-American women and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS and analyses of gender and race in science and medicine. Professor Hammonds’ current research focuses on diversity in STEM fields; the intersection of scientific, medical and socio-political concepts of race in the United States; and genetics and society. Prof. Hammonds served two terms on the Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), the congressionally mandated oversight committee of the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Prof. Hammonds was appointed to the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine (CWSEM) of the National Academies in 2017.