Friday, February 14
2:00 pm, Ballantine Hall 004 Todd L. Savitt "The Hospital Herald: a Black Medical Journal in Turn-of-the-Century Charleston"
Todd L. Savitt is a professor in the Department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of
Medicine, East Carolina State University. His book Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and
Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia has become a classic. He has published multiple
articles, including a study of the earliest identified sufferer from sickle cell anemia, and
has co-edited three books, including the influential Disease and Distinctiveness in the
American South.
Friday, February 28
1:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 004 Keith Wailoo "The Strange Career of Race and Cancer in the Twentieth Century"
Keith Wailoo., Professor of History at Rutgers University, focuses on the relationship of
disease and the biological sciences to questions of race, health politics, and group identity.
His books, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, and
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health, have
received national awards. The recipient of multiple grants, in 1999 Wailoo was awarded the
prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science, to further
his current study of the history of cancer, immunology, genetics and pain in biomedicine and
20th century American society. See also: A Curious Scholar: At the Intersection of Medicine, Culture and Race Relations.
Friday, April 11
1:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 004 Joyce Chaplin "Race and Demography in Early America: Who Counted?"
Joyce Chaplin is Professor of History and American Civilization at Harvard University.
Her latest book, Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science in the Anglo-Indian
Encounter, 1500-1676, uses ideas current in 16th and 17th century science to illuminate
English attitudes towards Indians and to help explain interactions between the two. The
book reconstructs the attitudes of native Americans and the differences that English colonists
perceived between the Indians’ bodies and their own, particularly regarding susceptibility to
disease.
Friday, April 25
1:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 004
Damon Freeman "The Zoot Personality: Kenneth Clark and the Dilemma of Power."
Damon Freeman, of the IU History Department, is currently completing his dissertation on the
influential psychologist Kenneth Clark: Kenneth B. Clark and American Social Thought, 1940-1980.
He possesses a law degree from the University of Maryland Law School.. He is also the recipient
of IU Chancellor and Organization of American Historian fellowships.
Friday, April 25
1:30 pm, Ballantine Hall 004 Ellen Dwyer "Psychiatry and the African-American Soldier during World War II"
Ellen Dwyer, Departments of Criminal Justice and History, and co-director of the Center for the
History of Medicine at IU-Bloomington, has numerous publications dealing with the history of
psychiatry and neurology, including Homes for the Mad, comparing the care of acute and chronic
mental illness in two 19th century lunatic asylums.
