Muhlenberg Professor Receives Grant for Book on Polio
Daniel J. Wilson, Ph.D., professor of history and head of the history department at Muhlenberg College, has been awarded an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year.Friday, July 26, 2002 02:57 PM
Daniel J. Wilson, Ph.D., professor of history and head of the history department at Muhlenberg College, has been awarded an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year.
Wilson will write a book on the experience of polio in twentieth-century America, discussing the significant medical developments and the cultural and social phenomena of the epidemics. The book will examine the experience of polio from the perspective of someone who had the disease, drawing on memoirs, narratives and oral history and will be the first book-length historical study of the polio experience.
Wilson joined the Muhlenberg faculty in 1978. He earned his B.A. at the University of Wisconsin, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. His historical research and scholarship focuses on the history of American philosophy and the culture of the U.S. polio epidemics.
