Nancy Tomes

Nancy J. Tomes is an American historian, author, and Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. She was awarded the Bancroft Prize in 2017 for Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers[1] and Arthur Viseltear Award from the American Public Health Association for her distinguished body of scholarship in the history of public health.[2] Tomes attended Oberlin College from 1970 to 1972. In 1974 she received a B.A. in history from University of Kentucky, Summa cum Laude. In 1978 she received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania where she worked with Charles E. Rosenberg.[3] In 2001 she received the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.[4] From 2012 to 2014 she served as the President of the American Association for the History of Medicine[2] and currently gives lectures at the Messiah College.[3]