Greetings!
My name is Kathryn Olivarius, and I am an Assistant Professor of American History at Stanford University, interested in slavery, capitalism, and disease. Before moving to California, I received my doctorate in History from the University of Oxford and was a Past and Present postdoc at the University of London. My writing and research has appeared in multiple publications, including the New York Times and the American Historical Review.
My first book, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom, Harvard University Press, 2022) concerns yellow fever, immunity, and inequality in the nineteenth-century South. It won the 2023 Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the Best First Book in American History from the Organization of American Historians.
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