Cholera in Damascus and the Decline of the Barada River: Socio-Epidemiologic Factors
This is a hybrid event and will be held online and in the ICC Boardroom.
In this event, Dr. Benan Grams will discuss her upcoming book and give an overview of the class she will be teaching in the Spring.
Dr. Benan Grams is a social historian of infectious diseases and medicine in the Modern Middle East. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of the history of epidemics, public health, environmental history and urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her upcoming book, “Damascus in the Time of Cholera: The Social Impact of Epidemics on the Transformation of Ottoman Damascus, 1848-1918,” examines the impact of cholera epidemics, the nineteenth century’s most feared disease, on the history of Damascus and on the lives of its inhabitants.