April 23, 2020

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.

This week's guest is Jim Downs, Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at Connecticut College.

Past Sessions:

April 9, 2020

April 16, 2020

Future sessions:

Evelynn M. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Chair of the Department of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.  Prof. 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 University.  She is the author with Susan Reverby of “ Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619, “ AJPH (2019).

Jim Downs is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford, 2012), which has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Lancet, and on the BBC World Service, CNN, New York Public Radio, Record TV in Brazil, among others. He is the editor of five anthologies, most recently, Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation (Georgia, 2017), which he co-edited with David Blight and Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections (Georgia, June, 2020), which is part of the History in the Headlines Series that he co-edits with Catherine Clinton.