keywords
- early American West, Native American history, colonial American history, history of the American Revolution, epidemic disease in American history, Mandan Indians, smallpox, environmental history
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Fenn, Elizabeth Distinguished Professor
Positions
- Distinguished Professor, History
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains. 95-114. 2014
- A Revolutionary Contagion: Smallpox and the Reshaping of the American West, 1779–82. 45-80. 2006
- Diseases. 360-362. 2006
- Smallpox. 1160-1164. 2006
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journal article
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
American Historical Review.
525-526.
2013
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Pox: An American History.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
663-664.
2011
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The speckled monster: A historical tale of battling smallpox..
Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
481-483.
2004
- Whither the Rest of the Continent?. Journal of the Early Republic. 167-175. 2004
- Whither the rest of the continent? (Early American Republic, exploration of the West). Journal of the Early Republic. 167-175. 2004
- The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82 (A little know catastrophe that reshaped the history of North America). History today. 10-17. 2003
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Biological warfare in eighteenth-century north America: Beyond Jeffery Amherst.
Journal of American History.
1552-1580.
2000
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'Go Fast, Turn Left, Voices from Orange County Speedway'.
Southern Cultures.
100-102.
1999
- 'Go Fast, Turn Left, Voices from Orange County Speedway'. Southern Cultures. 100-102. 1999
- "A Perfect Equality Seemed to Reign": Slave Society and Jonkonnu. The North Carolina historical review. 127. 1988
- "So Simple Yet So Complicated: Folk Artist William Young of Pantego. 56. 1984
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
American Historical Review.
525-526.
2013
Teaching
courses taught
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HIST 3115 - Seminar in Early American History
Primary Instructor - Spring 2019
Recommended restriction: History GPA of 2.0 or higher. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. -
HIST 4326 - Epidemic Disease in US History
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
Focuses on the impact of infectious epidemic disease on American history, from smallpox and cholera to influenza, AIDS and Ebola. Addresses early depopulation of the Americas; contagion and social upheaval; interpretations of pestilence; social construction of disease; urbanization; doctors and alternative practitioners; public health; prejudice and infection; the ethics of quarantine; public versus individual interests; and the paradox of prevention. -
HIST 7257 - Seminar: History of the American Frontier
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1999
- M.A., Yale University 1985
- B.A., Duke University 1981