Elizabeth A. Fenn
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| Born | September 22, 1959 Arlington, California[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Duke University Yale University |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Notable work | Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People |
| Spouse(s) | Peter H. Wood (m. 1999) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History |
Elizabeth Anne Fenn (born September 22, 1959) is an American historian whose book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2] She serves as the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill chair in Western American History at University of Colorado-Boulder.[1]
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Career
Fenn received a bachelor of arts degree in history (with honors)[3] from Duke University in 1981, then attended Yale University, finishing her masters in 1985. Fenn originally planned to write her dissertation on millenarianism in Native American culture, but left her doctoral program at Yale before it was finished, as she was "bored" with academia. Fenn entered the auto mechanic program at Durham Technical Community College and worked as a mechanic around the Durham, North Carolina area for eight years before returning to Yale in 1995 to complete her studies. Pox Americana, her dissertation about the 1775–82 North American smallpox epidemic, was written while working part-time, and completed in 1999.[4] Fenn was interviewed on multiple national news outlets about biological warfare after the September 11 attacks.[5]
Prior to joining the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2012,[6] Fenn taught at George Washington University from 1999 to 2002 and Duke from 2002 to 2012.[5]
She married Peter H. Wood in 1999.[7]
Works
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References
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External links
- Faculty page at UC-Boulder
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Articles with hCards
- 1959 births
- Living people
- American women historians
- 20th-century American historians
- 21st-century American historians
- Duke University alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Duke University faculty
- George Washington University faculty
- University of Colorado Boulder faculty
- Pulitzer Prize for History winners
- Historians of Native Americans
- Mechanics (trade)
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Durham Technical Community College alumni
- Writers from Riverside, California
- 20th-century women writers
