History Department Faculty
Conevery Bolton Valencius
Professor
Conevery Bolton Valencius
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall Room S317
Telephone: 617-552-8803
Email: conevery.valencius@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University, History of Science
Research Interests
U.S. environmental history; history of the earth sciences; history of medicine and health; energy history; history of seismology; women鈥檚 health; history of the U.S. Civil War; travel narratives; the American West; 19th-century American history
Department
Biography
Conevery Bolton Valencius (CON-a-very va-LEN-chus) works on the history of environments, health, and energy. She earned a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University in 1998 and was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2016. She has earned awards from the Society of American Historians and the History of Science Society. In February 2022 she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Valencius is the author of two books: The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002, Basic Books), which won the 2003 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History, and The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes (2013, University of Chicago Press).
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