History/Health staff & graduate student seminar: 'Educated in a White Space: African American Graduates of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1925'

Professor Vanessa Northington Gamble is a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor. She is visiting from The George Washington University, USA, and working with Dr Stephen Mawdsley on the project The Historical Implications of American Race and Medicine.

During its first seventy-five years, the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania graduated eighteen African American women – more than any other predominantly white medical school in the United States. This talk will examine the lives and careers of these “sisters of a darker race” who encountered racial and sexual discrimination as they made their way in the medical world demonstrated that medicine was indeed Black women’s work. In this presentation Prof. Gamble will discuss the challenges in writing the history of Black women physicians. There will also be time for Q&A. Refreshments provided.

This is a small-group seminar intended for graduate students or those with an academic background in history, health and/or medicine.

Attendance is free but you must book your place.