Keith Andrew Wailoo January 2014
Mailing Address: Department of History
136 Dickinson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1017
phone: (609) 258-4960
e-mail:
EMPLOYMENT
July 2013-present Princeton University
Vice Dean
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
July 2010-present Princeton University
Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs
Department of History
Program in History of Science
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Center for Health and Wellbeing
Sept 09-Jun 2010 Princeton University, Visiting Professor
Center for African-American Studies
Program in History of Science
Center for Health and Wellbeing
July 2006-June 2010 Rutgers, State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History
Department of History
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
July 2006-Dec2010 Founding Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University
(An academic unit spanning all disciplines in School of Arts and Sciences, as well as professional schools and campuses, reporting to Vice-President for Academic Affairs)
July 2006-Jun2010 P2 (Distinguished Professor), Rutgers University
2006-2007 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences – Stanford, CA
June 2001- Rutgers, State University of New Jersey – New Brunswick
June 2006 P1 (Full Professor)
Dept. of History/Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
July 1998- Harvard University – Cambridge, MA
June 1999 Visiting Professor
Dept. of the History of Science/Department of Afro-American Studies
July 1992- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, NC
June 2001 Asst. Prof (1992-1997); Assoc Prof (1997-1999); Prof (1999-2001)
Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine
Department of History, Arts and Sciences
EDUCATION
1992 Ph.D., Department of History and Sociology of Science
(M.A. 1989) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1984 B. A., Chemical Engineering
Yale University, New Haven, CT
PUBLICATIONS
Current Medicare and Medicaid at Fifty (co-edited with Alan Cohen, David Colby, and Julian Zelizer) an edited volume, following from a Feb 2014 conference, to be published on the 50th anniversary of the programs in July 2015.
2014 Pain: A Political History of the United States since World War II (Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2014 publication date)
2012 Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (co-edited with Alondra Nelson and Catherine Lee; Rutgers University Press: Studies in Race and Ethnicity)
2011 How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (2011, Oxford University Press)
2010 Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions (co-edited with Steven Epstein, Robert Aronowitz, and Julie Livingston; Johns Hopkins University Press)
2010 Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (co-edited with Roland Anglin and Karen O’Neill; Rutgers University Press: Studies in Race and Ethnicity)
2006 The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (co-authored with Stephen Pemberton) (Johns Hopkins University Press)
* 2006 Association of American Publishers Book Award in the History of Science, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division
2006 A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (co-edited with Julie Livingston and Peter Guarnaccia; University of North Carolina Press, Studies in Social Medicine series)
2004 Transforming American Medicine: Professional Sovereignty in a Changing Health Care System (co-edited with Mark Schlesinger and Timothy Jost) Essays on Paul Starr’s Social Transformation of American Medicine (special double issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 29, Numbers 4-5, August-October 2004)
2001 Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Studies in Social Medicine
* 2006 Sickle Cell/Thalassemia Patients Network, Community Service Award (book award)
* 2005 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine (books from previous 5 years considered)
* 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award for Non-Fiction, Southern Regional Council
* 2003 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
* 2002 American Political Science Association, Book Award (Social and Legal
Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., given by Section on Race,
Ethnicity, and Politics)
* 2002 Honor Book, New Jersey Council for the Humanities
1997 Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 1997) (paper, Spring 1999)
Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine
* 1996 Arthur Viseltear Award, American Public Health Association
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
2012 “Who Am I? Genes and the Problem of Historical Identity,” in Wailoo, Nelson, Lee, eds., Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (Rutgers University Press)
2010 “Vaccination as Governance: HPV Skepticism in the United States and Africa, and the North-South Divide,” (with Julie Livingston and Barbara Cooper), in Wailoo, Livingston, Epstein, Aronowitz, eds., Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions (Johns Hopkins University Press)
2010 “A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America,” in Wailoo, O’Neill, and Anglin, eds., Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (Rutgers University Press)
2010 “Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary,” (with Jeffrey Dowd) in Wailoo, O’Neill, and Anglin, eds., Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (Rutgers University Press)
2006 “The Politics of Second Chances: Waste, Futility, and the Debate Over Jesica Santillan’s Second Transplant,” (with Julie Livingston) in Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, October 2006)
2006 “Stigma, Race, and Disease in Twentieth Century America,” Lancet 367:
February 11, 531-533) (Part of Essay Focus section on Stigma and Global Health)
2004 “Sovereignty and Science: Revisiting the Role of Science in the Construction and
Erosion of Medical Dominance,” in Schlesinger, Jost, Wailoo, eds., Transforming
American Medicine (special double issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 29, Numbers 4-5, August-October 2004)
2003 “Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis,” in Donald Moore, et. al., ed., Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (Duke University Press, 2003) ** Reprinted in Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar, eds., Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Duke University Press, 2007)
2001 “The Power of Genetic Testing in a Conflicted Society,” in John Harley Warner and Janet Tighe, eds., Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health: Documents and Essays (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001): 379-387.
1998 “Genetic Research as Therapy: Implications of ‘Gene Therapy’ for Informed Consent,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 26 (Spring 1998: 38-47) (co-authored with Larry Churchill, Ph.D.; Myra Collins, M.D., Ph.D.; Nancy King, J.D.; and Stephen Pemberton, M.A.)
1998 “HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trials: Research and the Ethics of Knowledge-Production in ‘At Risk’ Communities,” in Nancy King and Gail Henderson, eds., From Regs to Relationships: Reexamining Research Ethics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998): 102-107.
1996 “Negro Blood as Genetic Marker: Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Anemia in America to 1950.” Journal of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 18 (1996): 305-320.
1991 “A Disease ‘sui generis’: The origins of sickle cell anemia and the emergence of modern clinical research, 1904-1924.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 65 (1991): 185-208.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2010 “Can Reform Spell Relief?” The American Prospect, September 10, 2010 (in special section on Fulfilling the Promise of Health Reform, Paul Starr. ed.)
2007 “Essay: Old Story Updated; Better Living Through Pills,” New York Times (Science Times), November 13
2007 “The Consequential Case of Jesica Santillan,” The News and Observer (N.C.), Feb 25.
2006 Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action (Institute of Medicine, National Academies). (Member of Committee on Increasing Rates of Organ Donation, and contributing author.)
2001 “The Body in Parts: Disease and the Biomedical Sciences in the Twentieth
Century,” in Susan Fitzpatrick and John T. Bruer, eds., Carving Our Destiny:
Scientific Research Faces a New Millennium (Essays by the James S.
McDonnell Centennial Fellows) (Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2001)
1990 Oral History, Interviews with Five past presidents of the American Society of Hematology Including Helen Ranney; Clement Finch; Ernest Beutler; Samuel Rappaport. Columbia University Oral History Library New York, NY
1986-1988 Freelance science writer, American Scientist
(May 1988, March 1987, January 1986). Series of biographical and scientific profiles of prominent junior scientists: Gary Brudvig, Chemistry, Yale University; Stephen Chu**, Physics, Bell Labs and Stanford University; Paul Olsen, Geology, Columbia University. (** Stephen Chu interview republished in American Scientist, Jan-Feb 1998 after Stephen Chu received Nobel Prize in Physics).
1985-1988 Freelance writer and editor, Case Reports: Highlights of Science and Technology in Connecticut (Publication of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering)
Articles on: U. S. Naval Underwater Systems Research; Lyme Disease Research at Yale and Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; Anti-Hypertensive
Pharmaceutical Development at Pfizer; Marine Ecology using Satellite Imaging at University of Connecticut.
1985-1987 Articles, profiles, and promotional materials for Yale Alumni Magazine, CT Business Journal, John B. Pierce Foundation (environmental research), and Yale University.
DISTINCTIONS: AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2010 Fielding H. Garrison Lecture, Keynote Plenary Lecture, American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Rochester, MN.
2007 Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies (“the health arm of the National Academies… providing authoritative advice to decision makers and the public”)
2007 George Sarton Memorial Lecture, American Academy for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (Keynote Lecture named by History of Science Society)
2006 Association of American Publishers Book Award in the History of Science, for The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine, presented by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of AAP
2006 Sickle Cell/Thalassemia Patient Network, Community Service Award for Dying in the City of the Blues
2005 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine for Dying in the City of the Blues – best book in the field.
2004 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship, Stanford, California (awarded 2004; fellowship taken 2006-2007)
2004 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, Rutgers University
2003 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Humanities Center, Texas A & M, for Dying in the City of the Blues – best work of interdisciplinary humanities scholarship.
2002 Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council, Dying in the City of the Blues – best non-fiction work on race and social justice.
2002 American Political Science Association Book Award for Dying in the City of the Blues (Best Book on Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the United States, Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics)
2002 New Jersey Council for the Humanities for Dying in the City of the Blues (Honor Book Award)
2002 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research
($330,000 Award for project on “Pain as Policy: The Social Negotiation of Pain in Medicine, Culture, and Public Policy in Post World War II America”)
2001 School of Medicine Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Medical Education (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, School of Medicine)
1999 James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science
($1,000,000 award for multi-year, multi-disciplinary project: “The Body in Parts: Disease and the Biomedical Sciences in the 20th Century”)
1997 Philip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement (University of North Carolina Research Award for “achievement by junior tenure-track professors or recently tenured faculty.”)
1996 Arthur Viseltear Book Prize, for Drawing Blood, presented by the Medical Care Section of American Public Health Association
1995 Shannon Award, NIH. Research award from National Center for Human Genome Research (with colleagues in Social Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill)
OTHER NAMED LECTURESHIPS AND PRESENTATIONS
October 2013 “Health and Cultural Change: Looking Back and Seeing Ahead,” What’s Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers” (Invited Lecture for staff, program officers, and leadership of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
October 2013 “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line,” Oregon Health Sciences University (American Cancer Society Harvey Baker Lecture)
October 2011 “Between Liberal Medicine and Conservative Care: The Cultural Politic of Pain in America” (John C. Burnham Lecture, Ohio State University)
April 2010 “The Politics of Pain: Liberal Medicine, Conservative Care, and the Governance of Relief in America since the 1950s” (Fielding H. Garrison Lecture, Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine)
April 2010 “Cancer, Culture, and the Color Line: Historical Perspectives on Race and Health in America,” (Master Lecture, Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting), Seattle, WA
Oct 2009 “Academic Culture and Collaboration: The View from the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers,” (Emory University, Race and Difference Initiative Conference)
Nov 2008 “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line: Race and Disease in America, Washington University (Thomas S. Hall Lecture in the History of Science)
Feb 2008 “Cultural Politics and the Pain of Others,” Keynote Address, Civil Rights and the Body Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dec 2007 “The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity, History, and the Limits of Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease” Keynote Address, Human Research Protections Program, 2007 Annual Meeting of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) (Boston, MA)
Nov 2007 “The Cultural Politics of Pain, from Percodan to Kevorkian” Harvard University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (The 2007-2008 Dean’s Lecture Series), Cambridge, MA
Nov 2007 “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line” (Eugene Litwak Honorary Lecture in the Sociomedical Sciences) Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
April 2007 “How Cancer Crossed the Color Line” (Chauncey Leake Lecture) University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, CA
March 2007 “Giving Them the Business: Cancer, PSA Testing, and the Limits of Race-Reasoning,” (Keynote Lecture in Conference on ‘The Business of Race and Science’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine), Cambridge, MA