Oct 10
DICP Event
Better Together: Reflections on Medicine, Racism, and Society
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Time: 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual
A Conversation with Rana Hogarth, PhD
Rana Hogarth, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Rana Hogarth is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research focuses on the creation of ideas about racial difference in North America and the Caribbean as they emerged through the language of medicine and its allied fields. She is the author of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), which examines how white physicians defined blackness as a medically significant marker of difference in slave societies of the American Atlantic. Her research has appeared in Social History of Medicine, American Quarterly, African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, American Journal of Public Health, History Compass, and in the edited volume Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery, edited by Sean Morey Smith and Christopher Willoughby (LSU Press, 2021).