Timothy Kent Holliday

Timothy Kent Holliday

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Timothy Kent Holliday is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a dissertation on the history of intimacy during epidemic disease crises in nineteenth-century Philadelphia. He specializes in early American history of the body, with focuses on race, gender, and medicine.

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Writing Histories of Intimate Care and Social Distancing in the Age of COVID-19

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In hindsight, it was probably a touch of grad school-induced hubris that led me to assert, in an early draft of my dissertation, that the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries were marked by chronic disease epidemics. I based this conclusion on the work of scholars like sociologist Bryan Turner, who in 1987 wrote almost… Read more →