University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Student, History of Science
Thesis Title: Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Public Health Nutrition in Early Twentieth-Century America
Judith Walzer Leavitt
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Andrew’s interests are in the history of medicine, public health, and health policy. His master’s thesis, “Bringing the Laboratory to the Street: The Bacteriological Diagnosis of Diphtheria in Late Nineteenth-Century New York City,” received an Honorable Mention for the Shryock Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine. His dissertation, "Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice & Nutrition Policy in the United States, 1900-1946," examines the development of school lunch and nutrition programs for children from their beginnings in the late 19th century to the passage of the National School Lunch Act in 1946.
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