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Past Member

Lauren Nauta Minsky

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

South Asian history of medicine/science
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Lauren Minsky studies the history of health and healing in South Asia. She is writing a book that explores how agrarian lower-classes in Punjab experienced the commercialization of agricultural production through changing patterns of human and animal sickness, and how these groups shaped regional healing practices as they struggled to survive.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D.
2006

Honors

2010
Social Science Research Council Book Fellow
2002
Fulbright-Hays Fellow
2001
Social Science Research Council IDRF Fellow
1999
Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow
1998
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies

Appointments

North Carolina State University
2006
Assistant Professor