Mariola Espinosa
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Mariola Espinosa is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa and affiliated faculty in the in the Program in Bioethics and Humanities at the Carver College of Medicine. Her interests are in the history of medicine and public health in the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as in histories of empire and disease, race and medicine, and transnational medical practices.
Espinosa is the author of Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2009). She was the recipient of the May Brodbeck Humanities Fellowship in 2015-2016.
Mariola Espinosa earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003), and an AB in History from Princeton University with certificates in Latin American Studies and in French Languages and Cultures (1996).
Publications
Books
Articles
- “History, Historians and the COVID-19 Pandemic”, Mariola Espinosa, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Mónica García, Ana Carolina Vimieiros Gomes, Vivek Neelakantan, Oluwatoyin Oduntan, Okezi T. Otovo, Patricia Palma, and Rodrigo Turin. Debate edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Gilberto Hochman, Topoi-Revista de História 22:48 (Sept.-Dec. 2021): 622-654.
- “Fièvre jaune et différentiels d’immunité et de mortalité,” in Épidémies et rapports sociaux. Toulouse: Éditions de l’Asymétrie, 2021.
- “Revisiting "What Is an Epidemic?" in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from the History of Latin American Public Health” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 94.4 (2020): 627-636
- “New Directions in the History of Cuban Medicine and Public Health: Introduction to the Dossier” Cuban Studies 45 (2017): 275-279
- “The Question of Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever in History and Historiography” Social Science History 38.3-4 (2014): 437 - 453
- “Los orígenes caribeños del Sistema Nacional de Salud Pública en los Estados Unidos. Una aproximación global a la historia de la medicina y de la salud pública en Latinoamérica” História, ciências, saúde-Manguinhos 22:1 (2015): 241-53
- "Globalizing the History of Disease, Medicine, and Public Health in Latin America" Isis, 104:4 (2013): 798-806
- Latin American and Caribbean