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Alex Chase-Levenson serves as an Associate Professor in the Public Health department within the Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Binghamton University. His expertise spans the political and cultural history of modern Britain, Europe, and the Mediterranean, alongside specialized research in medical history, public health systems, and epidemic disease dynamics.
His academic credentials include:
- BA, Harvard University
- M.Phil, Cambridge University
- PhD, Princeton University
Dr. Chase-Levenson's scholarship critically examines intersections between disease control, state power, and cultural identity. His award-winning monograph The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) analyzes Mediterranean quarantine systems as cultural signifiers while tracing connections between public health infrastructure and state expansion. Current projects include a comprehensive textbook on epidemic disease history since 1800 and a study of 19th-century British border obsessions, investigating imperial boundary disputes, invasion panics, and refugee policy debates.
His additional research encompasses quarantine station (lazaretto) development, 19th-century British reception of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and Victorian-era "virtual tourism" philosophies. Though no student advising or grant details appear in source materials, his work significantly influences historical epidemiology and 19th-century imperial studies, as evidenced by media coverage including "Quarantine: Book explores earlier international effort to combat disease".
