Participant Info
- First Name
- Cindy
- Last Name
- Ermus
- Country
- United States
- State
- cermus2@unl.edu
- 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
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- 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
- Social Media
- @CindyErmus
- 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
