Nadja Durbach

Nadja Durbach is a professor of History at the University of Utah. She is a specialist of modern Britain and co-editor of the Journal of British Studies.[1] Her research, grounded in her first book, Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907(2005), focuses on immunization, vaccination, and alternative medicine politics in the nineteenth century.[2][3] Her research has also focused on the history of the body and food politics in Britain.[4][5] She was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.[6]

Durbach received her B.A. from University of British Columbia in 1993 and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 2001.

Books
  • Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain From the Workhouse to the Welfare State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).[7]
  • Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010).
  • Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).

References
  1. ""Announcing our new JBS editors"". North American Conference on British Studies. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  2. Ro, Christine (October 31, 2021). ""Why mandatory vaccination is nothing new"". BBC. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  3. North, Anna. ""The long, strange history of anti-vaccination movements"". Vox. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  4. Zinoman, Jason (October 30, 2021). ""Why the Vampire Myth Won't Die"". New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  5. Yale, Elizabeth. ""Why anti-vaccination movements can never be tamed"". Religion and Politics. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
  6. "Nadja Durbach Wins John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016". University of Utah.
  7. Earl, Elizabeth (July 15, 2015). ""The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Movement"". The Atlantic. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
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