Associate Professor of French
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Associate Professor, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
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Holly Tucker's research focuses on the medical humanities, with an emphasis on the history of medicine and its cultural contexts.
Professor Tucker has received funding for her research from the Newberry Library, the Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, and from Vanderbilt's Research Scholar Fellowship program. Professor Tucker was Jacques Vogeli Fellow and co-director of Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Fellows' Program (2005-2006) and was Acting Chair of the Department of French & Italian (2004-2005). She also served as inaugural Associate Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (2006-2008).
Recent publications include articles in the 