Julie Livingston

Julie Livingston (born 1966) is an American medical historian and the Julius Silver Professor at New York University. She won a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship.

Life
Livingston received her B.A. in Comparative Religion from Tufts University. She graduated from Boston University with an M.A. in African History, M.P.H. in Health Services and a Certificate of Public Health in Developing Countries, and from Emory University with a Ph.D. in African History. She taught at Rutgers University from 2003 to 2015.

Publications
Select books:


 * Debility and moral imagination in Botswana : disability, chronic illness, and aging, 2005
 * Improvising medicine : an African oncology ward in an emerging cancer epidemic, 2012
 * Self-devouring growth : a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa, 2019
 * Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality (co-authored with Andrew Ross), 2022