Jacob Steere-Williams

Jacob Steere-Williams is a historian of epidemic disease, particularly in nineteenth and early-twentieth century Britain and the former British colonies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and began teaching at the College in 2011. Dr. Steere-Williams is a faculty affiliate with a number of campus programs, including the British Studies minor, the Medical Humanities minor, the Geography minor, the Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World Program (CLAW), and the Urban Studies Program. He also works closely with the Waring Historical Library on the campus MUSC, where he currently serves as the Vice-President of the Waring Historical Society. Professor Steere-Williams is the author of the 2020 book The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, published by the University of Rochester Press in the Studies in Medical History series.

Speakers Bureau Topics by Jacob Steere-Williams

The Medical University of South Carolina: An Interactive History

Education and Pedagogy Health and Wellness Lowcountry History and Culture Nineteenth-Century History and Culture South Carolina History and Culture Twentieth-Century History and Culture Twenty-First-Century History and Culture

South Carolina’s Medical Past

Eighteenth-Century History and Culture Health and Wellness Nineteenth-Century History and Culture South Carolina History and Culture Twentieth-Century History and Culture Twenty-First-Century History and Culture

Public Health and Pandemics in the Atlantic World

Eighteenth-Century History and Culture Health and Wellness Nineteenth-Century History and Culture Twentieth-Century History and Culture Twenty-First-Century History and Culture

COVID-19 in Historical Perspective

Health and Wellness Nineteenth-Century History and Culture Twentieth-Century History and Culture Twenty-First-Century History and Culture

Jacob Steere-Williams

Speakers Bureau Topics by Jacob Steere-Williams

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