Mary Ellen Leuver
Yale, B.A.
Mary Ellen Leuver studies the intersections of urban history, Western history and the histories of science, medicine, and public health at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay between disease, environment, and the development of the American city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular her work specializes in the relationship between tuberculosis and the physical and cultural development of Western American cities that were created to promote “health,” tracing their trajectories both before and after the acceptance of modern germ theory. Ms. Leuver is an alumna of Yale College, graduating in the Class of 2006 with a degree in History and minors in English and the Humanities. She is currently a McDougal Fellow at the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, an affiliate of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale, and the Arts & Humanities Editor of the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine.
