Nadja
Durbach Visiting Scholar
Fall 2006
Nadja
Durbach will
spent
the Fall 2006
semester as
a Visiting
Associate
Professor
in
the History
Department
and the Center
for British
Studies at
the
University
of California
at Berkeley.
Her first
book,
Bodily
Matters:
The Anti-Vaccination
Movement
in
England,
1853-1907,
was published
by Duke University
Press in
2005. She
is currently
completing
a book about
the late
nineteenth-
and early
twentieth-century
British
freak
show. An
article
drawn from
the book
is forthcoming
in Cultural
and Social
History.
During
the past
academic
years
she
has delivered
papers
at the
meeting
of the
Victorian
Studies
Association
of Western
Canada,
the North
American
Conference
on British
Studies,
and at
the Social
and Cultural
History
Seminar
at the
University
of Liverpool.
In April
2005
she appeared
as a guest
on BBC
Radio
4 to discuss
the history
of immunization.
