Participant Info

First Name
Cindy
Last Name
Ermus
Affiliation
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Website URL
www.cindyermus.com
Keywords
18th-Century France & Atlantic World, Age of Revolutions, History of Epidemics, Disaster History, History of Science & Medicine
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About Me

Cindy Ermus is the Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Urban Disasters (Cambridge UP, 2023). She is also the editor of a volume titled Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk and Resilience (LSU Press, 2018). In addition to her books, she has published various articles and chapters in the history of medicine and the environment in eighteenth-century France and the Atlantic World, as well as on digital history and the future of the historical profession. In 2013, she was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Ermus is co-editor for the France Overseas series of the University of Nebraska Press, as well as co-founder and co-executive editor for www.AgeofRevolutions.com (on Twitter @AgeofRevs), which explores themes and moments in the history of revolutions.

Recent Publications

For publications, please see CV at www.cindyermus.com

Media Coverage
Appearances in The Atlantic, Washington Post, BBC World News, Univisión, Al Jazeera
Country Focus
France & Atlantic
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, France, Mediterranean, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, Early Modern, Modern
Expertise by Topic
Diplomacy, Environment, Medicine, Rebellion & Revolution, Science, Urban History