Julie Livingston

I am an African historian—but I draw on my interdisciplinary training in public health and anthropology in my scholarship and teaching. I work mainly in Botswana, in southern Africa. I am interested in the human body as a moral condition, including the ethical entanglements engendered by bodily vulnerability in conditions of scarce resources. My past research has explored questions of disability, chronic illness, and aging in Botswana. I am currently beginning research on a new book length project that will consider the history of sentience in Botswana through experiences of pain and laughter.

• 508:328 The History of Health and Healing in Africa
• 510:391, 392 History of the AIDS Pandemic
• 508:320 The History of Southern Africa

• 510:529 Topics in the History of Sexuality: Sex, Sexuality, and Medicine
• 510:539 Colloquium in Women's History: Race and Reproduction.

• Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.  
• A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and the Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. (co-edited with Keith Wailoo and Peter Guarnaccia)  University of North Carolina Press, October 2006.
• “Maintaining local dependencies: elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in Botswana.” In Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham eds., Generations and Globalization: Family, Youth, and Age in the New World Economy.  Indiana University Press, 2006.
• “Insights from an African History of Disability,” Radical History Review, Special Issue on Disability and History, 94 (2006): 111-126.  
• “AIDS as Chronic Illness: Epidemiological Transition and Health Care in Southeastern Botswana.” African Journal of AIDS Research3(1), 2004: 15-22.
• “Reconfiguring Old Age: Elderly Women and Concerns Over Care in Southeastern Botswana” Medical Anthropology22(2), 2003: 205-231.
• “Pregnant Children and Half-Dead Adults: Modern Living and the Quickening Life-Cycle in Botswana.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine77(1), 2003: 133-162.
• “Physical Fitness and Economic Opportunity in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1930’s and 1940’s.” Journal of Southern African Studies27 (4), 2001: 793-811.

• Board of Trustees Fellowship Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University, 2006
• Cotsen Fellowship, Princeton Society of Fellows 2003-2006 (declined).
• Bernadotte E. Schmidt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2000.
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1998-1999.

• The American Historical Association
• The African Studies Association
• The American Anthropological Association
• The American Association for the History of Medicine