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Beth Linker is the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of History and Sociology of Science. She holds a core faculty role in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Her research focuses on the history of medicine, disability, and gender, with notable works including War’s Waste (2011) and Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (2024).
Her research interests span the social and cultural history of U.S. medicine, disability studies, war studies, and bioethics. She has published in journals like The New England Journal of Medicine and American Journal of Public Health. Linker received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (2017), the University of Pennsylvania's highest teaching honor.
Her grants include support from the NEH, NIH, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing.
