Event
Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)
Celebrating New Faculty Books: Alex Chase-Levenson (UPENN), author of The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1760-1860, in conversation with David S. Barnes, Associate Professor in the History of Sociology and Science Department.
Alex Chase-Levenson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research and teaching focus on modern Britain and modern Europe. His published work has addressed trade, travel, and disease in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean, Victorian spectacle, and perceptions of ancient time in nineteenth-century Britain and France. Chase-Levenson received his PhD in history from Princeton University (2015), and has been the recipient of an IHR-Mellon fellowship and a Henry Fellowship to undertake research and study in the UK.
David S. Barnes is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the history of medicine and public health, he is the author of The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (University of California Press, 1995). He is currently writing a history of the Lazaretto quarantine station (1801-1895) on the Delaware River outside Philadelphia—the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere.
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