The Levine Lecture Series presents Scholar-in-Residence Weekend

and The 35th annual Levine Lecture with Dr. David M. Oshinsky

Past Epidemics and What We Should Have Learned

Dr. Oshinsky will consider the current pandemic in relation to past epidemics, including the "Great Influenza" of 1918, Polio, and HIV/AIDS. What lessons have we learned, how does the current pandemic differ, and what does the future hold? 

Dr. Oshinsky will also be speaking on Sunday, March 14, 9:30 am about Challenges to Democracy. For more information and to register, click HERE. 

David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian. He is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.

Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story. Oshinsky’s most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, was published in 2016. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He previously held the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin.