The 2022 Gregory Lecture presents Dr. Jim Downs (Gettysburg College)

Jim Downs, Gettysburg College
UGA Chapel

Join us for the 2022 Gregory Distinguished Lecture "The Troubled Origins of Epidemiology: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine", featuring Professor Jim Downs, Gettysburg College.

Downs is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History. He is the author of Sick From Freedom: African American Sickness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford UP, 2012), Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books, 2016) and Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Harvard UP, 2021).

Sponsored by the Gregory Chair of the Civil War Era, the Department of History, and the new Minor in the History of Science, Medicine, and Engineering.

This event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Jim Downs
Civil War Era Studies and History
Gettysburg College