Nadja Durbach is a historian of modern Britain and professor of History at the University of Utah.
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Nadja Durbach is a historian of modern Britain and professor of history at the University of Utah. Her work explores the cultural and political history of the body, with a focus on medicine, disability, and public health. She is the author of Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907 (Duke University Press, 2005) and Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (University of California Press, 2009), and her research has examined topics ranging from vaccination debates and alternative medicine to the social meanings of physical difference. More recently, her scholarship has turned to food politics and the history of welfare in Britain, culminating in Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Durbach received her BA (Hons.) from the University of British Columbia and her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. She is a co-editor of the Journal of British Studies and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in the United Kingdom and raised in Canada, her work bridges cultural history and social analysis to illuminate how societies understand health, difference, and care.
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