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Richard C. Keller is the Robert Turell Professor and Chair in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on the history of European and global medicine, public health, and environmental health, with particular attention to colonial contexts and global environmental challenges. He holds affiliations with multiple interdisciplinary programs including the African Studies Program, Center for European Studies, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
His current project, a global environmental history under contract with Oxford University Press, continues his exploration of health and environmental intersections. Notable publications include Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 (2015) and Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (2007).
His articles address topics like urban mortality patterns in heat waves and the legacies of colonial medicine. His 2013 work Place Matters earned the William Koren Jr. Prize. Keller teaches courses on global health history, international health systems, and epidemics in global contexts.
