Andrea Rusnock
{{short description|American historian}}
Andrea Rusnock is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. She has published two books and numerous articles on science and medicine in the Enlightenment, quantification, public health and the environment, and the history of vaccination.{{cite web|title=Faculty Profile |url=http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/rusnock.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528223312/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/rusnock.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 May 2010 |website=www.uri.edu |publisher=University of Rhode Island |accessdate=14 May 2015 }} Her work has been reviewed in Medical History: An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences,{{cite journal|title=Book Review|pmc=2844296|journal=Medical History|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|last1=Gradmann|first1=C.|volume=54|issue=2|pages=266–268|doi=10.1017/S0025727300006827}} EH.net of the Economic History Association,{{cite web|title=Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France|url=http://eh.net/book_reviews/vital-accounts-quantifying-health-and-population-in-eighteenth-century-england-and-france/|website=eh.net|publisher=Economic History Association|accessdate=19 May 2015}} and The American Historical Review.{{cite web|title=Andrea A. Rusnock. Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France|url=http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/110/4/1133.extract|website=ahr.oxfordjournals.org|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=19 May 2015}}{{dead link|date=May 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Education and background
Rusnock earned her BA from Brown University in 1982. She then attended Princeton University, where she earned her MA in 1985 and her PhD in 1990.
Publications
- 1996: The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684–1750), Physician and Secretary to the Royal Society', edited with an introduction, notes, and calendar of correspondence, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi). {{ISBN|9042000473}}.
- 2002: Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Cambridge University Press). {{ISBN|0521803748}}.
Awards
- 2006-2007: URI Center for the Humanities Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship, for her project "The Birth of Vaccination."{{cite web|title=Recent Grant and Fellowship Awards |url=http://web.uri.edu/humanities/recents/.html |website=web.uri.edu |accessdate=19 May 2015 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 2013: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for her project The Birth of Vaccination: An Environmental History.{{cite web|title=Andrea Rusnock F'13 |url=https://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=4cb9f5b4-f7a4-db11-8d10-000c2903e717|website=acls.org|accessdate=19 May 2015}}
- 2014: Winner of the Award for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health/Publications, US Department of Health and Human Services.{{cite web|title=Project Information |url=http://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=8666815&icde=22241838&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=1&csb=default&cs=ASC|website=report.nih.govindex.aspx|accessdate=26 May 2015}}
References
External links
- [http://patch.com/rhode-island/narragansett/local-professors-win-prestigious-fellowships-to-pen-european-history-books Local Professors Win Prestigious Fellowships to Pen European History Books]
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