Nadja Durbach | Professor of History,
Co-Editor, Journal of British Studies
Nadja Durbach
Professor of History,
Co-Editor, Journal of British Studies
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About
Nadja Durbach is Professor of History at the University of Utah and co-editor of the Journal of British Studies. A cultural and social historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, her research focuses on the history of the body and its relationship to the state, the nation, and the empire. She is currently working on a book entitled Registration Nation: Identity, Privacy, and the Recording of Persons in Modern Britain. This project explores how the British state’s attempts to register different populations opened up a range of contentious questions about race, sex, class, legal status, personhood, health, ability, freedom, citizenship, and ultimately the relationship among the individual, the family, the state, the nation, and the empire.
- BA (Honours), History, University of British Columbia
- MA, History, Johns Hopkins University
- PhD, History, Johns Hopkins University
History of the body in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and its empire.
“Incubator Babies and the Prosthetic Womb,” Victorian Review 35(2) 2009.
History 1110: European History Since 1300
History 3100: The Historian’s Craft
History 3140: Victorian Britain
History 3240: Twentieth-Century Britain
History 4080: History of Medicine
History 4095/6095: Governing Bodies
Fellow, Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah (2004, 2024)
Gourmand Award, Best in the World (Food Security Category) for Many Mouths (2020)
College of Humanities Distinguished Scholar (2018)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016-7)
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (2016)
Transformative Research in the Humanities Grant (2015)
Associated Students of the University of Utah Student Choice Teaching Award (2007)
Early Career Teaching Award, University of Utah (2005)
Ramona Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, University of Utah (2005)
Virgil Award for outstanding mentoring of graduate students in History, University of Utah (2003)