Conevery泭Valencius
Professor Valencius teaches at Boston College and writes about American environments and American science and medicine.泭 Her classes include Leeches to Lasers, a survey of U.S. health and medicine, and This Land is Your Land, which introduces U.S. environmental history.泭 She is currently working on a book about earthquakes and contemporary energy, focused on the emerging science of induced seismology and hydraulic fracturing.
Professor Valenciuss 2013 book泭The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes泭explored the impact and continuing scientific importance of great nineteenth-century quakes in the Mississippi Valley. Her first book,泭The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land,泭won the 2003 George Perkins Marsh Award as best book of the year from the American Society for Environmental History.泭 Two articles about health in womens letters and about Sacagaweas illness during the Lewis and Clark expedition won awards in womens history. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Dibner Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Photo Credit: Ella Farrell Photography.