Participant Info
- First Name
- Rana
- Last Name
- Hogarth
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- rhogarth@illinois.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Website URL
- https://history.illinois.edu/directory/profile/rhogarth
- Keywords
- race, medicine, slavery, science
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Rana A. Hogarth is an associate professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in History, with a concentration in History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University. She also holds an M.H.S. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work focuses on medical and scientific constructions of race during the era of slavery and beyond. Her scholarship brings together the fields of African American History, History of Medicine, and Atlantic World History.
- Recent Publications
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- US, Greater Caribbean
- Expertise by Geography
- Caribbean, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Medicine, Race, Science, Slavery
