Mr. Dorr is a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow and an Honorary Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellow. His dissertation extensively utilizes primary resources from University of Virginia Library Special Collections and The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library Historical Collections and Services. The Fellowship targets early career scientists-scholars for work that will contribute substantially to the development of knowledge and its responsible application in the next century. Dr. Wailoo will use the award to pursue an extended historical study of disease and the biomedical sciences in the 20th century. His new book, Dying in the City of the Blues , a study of sickle cell anemia and African American health in Memphis that has received exceptional pre-publication reviews, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
All lectures are open to the public.