keywords
- early American West, Native American history, colonial American history, history of the American Revolution, epidemic disease in American history, Mandan Indians, smallpox, environmental history
- Contact Info
Fenn, Elizabeth
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, History
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
2020
- The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains. 95-114. 2014
- A Revolutionary Contagion: Smallpox and the Reshaping of the American West, 1779–82. 45-80. 2006
- Diseases. 360-362. 2006
- Smallpox. 1160-1164. 2006
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Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene
2020
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journal article
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
American Historical Review.
525-526.
2013
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Pox: An American History.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
663-664.
2011
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The speckled monster: A historical tale of battling smallpox..
Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
481-483.
2004
- Whither the Rest of the Continent?. Journal of the Early Republic. 167-175. 2004
- Whither the rest of the continent? (Early American Republic, exploration of the West). Journal of the Early Republic. 167-175. 2004
- The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82 (A little know catastrophe that reshaped the history of North America). HISTORY TODAY. 10-17. 2003
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Biological warfare in eighteenth-century north America: Beyond Jeffery!Amherst.
Journal of American History.
1552-1580.
2000
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'Go Fast, Turn Left, Voices from Orange County Speedway'.
Southern Cultures.
100-102.
1999
- 'Go Fast, Turn Left, Voices from Orange County Speedway'. Southern Cultures. 100-102. 1999
- "A Perfect Equality Seemed to Reign": Slave Society and Jonkonnu. The North Carolina historical review. 127. 1988
- "So Simple Yet So Complicated: Folk Artist William Young of Pantego. 56. 1984
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
American Historical Review.
525-526.
2013
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1999
- M.A., Yale University 1985
- B.A., Duke University 1981