McGill Faculty Affiliates
Myron Echenberg
Myron Echenberg retired as Professor of African History at McGill University in May, 2008. He is a former winner of the prestigious annual Herskovits Award for the outstanding original scholarly work in African Studies, Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1914-1960, published in 1991. His most recent works illustrate his continuing research on the history of health and disease in Africa and the developing world.
Publications
Books
- 2007. Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague between 1894 and 1901, New York: New York University Press.
- 2001. Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945, Portsmouth, NH., Heinemann.
- 1991. Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960, Portsmouth,N.H.: Heinemann
Chapters in Books
- 2006. "Perspectives historiques sur le sida: leçons sud-africaines et sénégalaises", in Philippe Denis et Charles Becker (éds), L'épidémie du sida en Afrique subsaharienne. Regards historiens. Paris: Karthala, pp.93-106.
- 2005. "'For their own good': The Pasteur Institute of Dakar and the quest for an anti-yellow fever vaccine in French Colonial Africa, 1924-1960", in Conquêtes Médicales: Histoire de la Médecine Moderne et des Maladies en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado, Paris: Karthala, 57-73.
- 2003. "'The dog that did not bark': memory and the 1918 influenza epidemic in Senegal", in The Spanish Flu Pandemico of 1918-19: New Perspectives. Edited by David Killingray and Howard Phillips, London: Routledge, 230-38.
- 2001. "'Scientific Gold': Robert Koch and Africa, 1883-1906," in Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays for John Flint. Edited by Chris Youe and Tim Stapleton, London: Palgrave, 34-49.
Articles in Refereed Journals
- 2002. "Pestis Redux: The Initial Years of the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic, 1894-1901", Journal of World History, vol.13, no.2, 429-49.
