Julie Livingston
Born1966 (age 5758)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTufts University
Boston University
Emory University
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship
Scientific career
Fieldsmedical historian
InstitutionsNew York University
Rutgers University

Julie Livingston (born 1966) is an American medical historian and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University.[1] She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.[2]

Life

Livingston received her B.A. in Comparative Religion[1] from Tufts University.[3] She graduated from Boston University with an M.A. in African History, M.P.H. in Health Services and a Certificate of Public Health in Developing Countries,[1] and from Emory University with a Ph.D. in African History.[1] She taught at Rutgers University from 2003 to 2015.[4]

Publications

Select books:

  • 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Julie Livingston". NYU. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  2. "Julie Livingston — MacArthur Foundation". Macfound.org. 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  3. "Alumna Receives MacArthur Genius Grant | Tufts Now". Now.tufts.edu. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
  4. "Livingston, Julie". History.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-06.


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