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Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

Assistant Professor, Health Humanities and Environmental Studies

Wilkinson College Other Programs, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

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Education:: Chapman University, Bachelor of Arts
Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D.

Biography

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley received her PhD in the history of medicine, specializing in the history of global health and disease control in Africa. Her research interests include the history of biomedicine and biomedical technologies, disease ecologies, and the intersection of poverty and health. Her first book, Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (JHU Press, 2023) reflects these interests as it explores how and why insecticide-treated bed nets became a main method of malaria control in the 21^st century. Her current book project builds from this work to look at the history of malaria vaccine research and other efforts to develop vaccines for 'diseases of poverty'. She teaches courses in the health humanities and environmental studies, with an emphasis on global histories of medicine, science, technology, and the environment.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Review of “Heidi Morefield, Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health,” Annals of Science 82, no. 3 (2025): 495-497.; Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).; “Marketing malaria control: nets, neoliberalism and a new approach to fighting malaria,” Social History of Medicine, 36, no. 1 (2023): 1-23.; Review of “Stuart Blume, Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial,” Annals of Science 79, no. 1 (2022): 131-135.; Review of “Bruce Benton, foreword by James D. Wolfensohn, River Blindness in Africa: Taming the Lion’s Stare,” Journal of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science 4, no. 1 (2022): 50-51.; Review of “Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell and Laurent Pordié, eds., Global Health and the New World Order: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to a Changing Regime of Governance,” European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health 79 (2022): 206-208.

Dr. Kirsten Moore-Sheeley

Biography

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

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