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Faculty Member, History
Northwestern University, History
Thesis Title: The Contagion of Liberty: Medicine, Class, and Popular Politics in the American Revolution
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About
Andrew Wehrman is an assistant professor of history at Marietta College, where he teaches courses in early American history, colonial and Revolutionary America, and the history of medicine and disease. He completed his PhD in Colonial American history at Northwestern University.
His current book project entitled "The Contagion of Liberty: Medicine, Class, and Popular Politics in the American Revolution," argues that constant fears of smallpox epidemics and contrasting ideas about medicine and public health helped shape the political thoughts and actions of ordinary Americans during the American Revolution. An article taken from the first chapter of his dissertation entitled “The Siege of Castle Pox: Marblehead, Massachusetts’ Medical Revolution, 1764-1777” won the 2008 Walter Muir Whitehill Award in Early American History and was the lead article in the September 2009 issue of the New England Quarterly.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, he attended the University of Arkansas and received a B.A. in history with a minor in education in 2003. The following year he completed a Master’s degree in Teaching (MAT) at the University of Arkansas, which included a year-long teaching internship in public secondary schools. This experience has fostered a life-long interest in history education and the desire to connect his research to a broad public audience. Andrew is also a long suffering fan of the Royals, Chiefs, and Cubs, who constantly remind him that winning isn’t everything.
Contact Information
| Homepage: | http://www.marietta.edu/departments/History_and_Po |
| Telephone: |
740-376-4625 |
