Julie Livingston (born 1966) is an American medical

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and the Julius Silver Professor at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

. She won a 2013

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Life

Livingston received her B.A. in Comparative Religion from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. She graduated from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

with an M.A. in African History, M.P.H. in Health Services and a Certificate of Public Health in Developing Countries, and from

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

with a Ph.D. in African History. She taught at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

from 2003 to 2015.

Publications

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* ''Debility and moral imagination in Botswana : disability, chronic illness, and aging'', 2005 * ''Improvising medicine : an African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic'', 2012 * ''Self-devouring growth : a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa'', 2019 * ''Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality'' (co-authored with Andrew Ross), 2022

References

1966 births Living people American medical historians Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences alumni Emory University alumni Rutgers University faculty Boston University School of Public Health alumni MacArthur Fellows Date of birth missing (living people) {{US-med-historian-stub