Jacob Steere-Williams
steerewilliams.bsky.social
Jacob Steere-Williams
@steerewilliams.bsky.social
Historian of disease and the environment. College of Charleston. New book in the works on all things disinfection and the Anthropocene
Absolutely fantastic book !
Great to have a glimpse of my new book, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic coming soon @hopkinspress.bsky.social (no cover yet, but working on it) in new book series on epidemic histories edited @doravargha.bsky.social & @steerewilliams.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
July 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Great to have a glimpse of my new book, How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic coming soon @hopkinspress.bsky.social (no cover yet, but working on it) in new book series on epidemic histories edited @doravargha.bsky.social & @steerewilliams.bsky.social www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
July 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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in the fabulous anthology *Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine*, edited by Warwick Anderson, Jeremy A. Greene, and Ann Kweim Lie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). The whole volume is #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Medicine on a Larger Scale
Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale
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May 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Same! Incredible resource launching
Very pleased to be part of the editorial board for this exciting and valuable archival resource on the global history of epidemics, that taps into the wonderful collections of the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy www.globalhistoryofepidemics.amdigital.co.uk
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May 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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It's Annual Meeting Eve! Get yourself hyped - add your info to our new Directory of Experts! Thanks to the Ed & Outreach & Diversity & Inclusion Committees, we will use this new database to help connect the experts in our field with the media. histmed.org/membership/e... #aahm2025
Directory of Experts on the History of Medicine and Public Health
Membership expertise Directory of Experts on the History of Medicine and Public Health We’re building a database of our members’ expertise – for networking, collaboration, and to serve as a resource…
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April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The ink is dry, the AAHM celebrations are being planned: I will be joining Towson University's history department this fall as a tenure-track assistant professor in the history of medicine. I can't believe it finally happened. I am so happy and so lucky.
April 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Don’t forget: this is the same death cult that refused common sense pandemic protocols- the shuttering of public health rn was always the plan. We’re still living pandemic politics.
March 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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This is in 2 days: "How Genetics Has Changed the History of the Black Death, And How History Has Changed Genetics." www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcomin.... Looking forward to a lively discussion of how a #histsci approach to on-going research can capture a paradigm shift in the act. 🧪
March 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Just a reminder of this brilliant special issue of JHMAS on new pandemic histories eds @steerewilliams.bsky.social & Claire Edington
January 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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New special issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science is now finalized. "Re-Writing Pandemic Histories," edited by @steerewilliams.bsky.social & Claire Edington, academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue. B/c #histmed has no public funder in the U.S., only 3 entries are #OpenAccess. 🧪
Issues | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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September 25, 2024 at 4:02 PM