Jacob Steere-Williams

Historian of pandemics and public health. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Editor of The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.

Jacob Steere-Williams is a historian of epidemic disease, particularly in 19th and early-20th century Britain and the former British colonies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and began teaching at the college in 2011. He is the author of the 2020 book The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, published by the University of Rochester Press in the Studies In Medical History series.