Nadja Durbach Explained

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).

Notes and References

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