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Julie Livingston (born 1966) is an American medical historian and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University. She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.

Life

Livingston received her B.A. in Comparative Religion from Tufts University. She graduated from Boston University with an M.A. in African History, M.P.H. in Health Services and a Certificate of Public Health in Developing Countries, and from Emory University with a Ph.D. in African History. She taught at Rutgers University from 2003 to 2015.

Publications

Select books:

• Debility and moral imagination in Botswana : disability, chronic illness, and aging, 2005
• Improvising medicine : an African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic, 2012
• Self-devouring growth : a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa, 2019
• Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality (co-authored with Andrew Ross), 2022

References

1. ^ "Julie Livingston". NYU. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
2. "Julie Livingston — MacArthur Foundation". Macfound.org. 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
3. "Alumna Receives MacArthur Genius Grant | Tufts Now". Now.tufts.edu. 2013-10-15. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
4. "Livingston, Julie". History.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-06.

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