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Elizabeth Anne Fenn (born September 22, 1959) is an American historian. Her book Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People Pulitzer Prize for History .[2] Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill chair in Western American History at University of Colorado-Boulder .[1]
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Fenn received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history (with honors)[3] Duke University in 1981, then attended Yale University , finishing her master's degree in 1985. Fenn originally planned to write her dissertation on millenarianism in Native American culture, but left her doctoral program at Yale before it was finished, as she was "bored" with academia. Fenn entered the auto mechanic program at Durham Technical Community College and worked as a mechanic around the Durham, North Carolina area for eight years before returning to Yale in 1995 to complete her studies. Pox Americana , her dissertation about the 1775–82 North American smallpox epidemic , was written while working part-time, and completed in 1999.[4] September 11 attacks .[5]
Fenn won the 2004 Cox Book Prize for her work Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-1782 .[6] National Endowment for the Humanities in 2019.[7]
Prior to joining the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2012,[8] George Washington University from 1999 to 2002 and Duke from 2002 to 2012.[5]
She married Peter H. Wood in 1999.[9]
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^ Kuta, Sarah (April 20, 2015). "Elizabeth Fenn, CU-Boulder prof and Longmont resident, wins Pulitzer Prize for history" . The Daily Camera . Retrieved April 26, 2015 .
^ Evans, Clay (December 2011). "Former auto mechanic makes splash in world of history" . University of Colorado at Boulder . Archived from the original on October 13, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015 .
^ Eakin, Emily (September 8, 2001). "She Can Fix Your Engine, Too" . The New York Times . Retrieved November 11, 2015 .
^ a b Hicks, Sally (August 30, 2002). "Scholar Trades Wrenches For Writing" . Duke University . Retrieved April 26, 2015 .
^ "Cox Book Prize" . Society of the Cincinnati . Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018 .
^ Talbott, Clint (August 29, 2019). "Pulitzer-winning historian gets NEH award for book on Sacagawea" . Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine . Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
^ "CU-Boulder history chair wins Pulitzer Prize for her book" . University of Colorado at Boulder . April 20, 2015. Archived from the original on April 25, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015 .
^ Sounart, Christie (April 22, 2015). "Fenn Wins Pulitzer" . Colorandan Magazine . Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2015 .
^ Martin, James Kirby (2003). "Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (review)" . Journal of Social History 37 1 ): 268–270. doi :10.1353/jsh.2003.0148 . S2CID 201761357 – via Project MUSE.
^ Tannenbaum, Rebecca J. (October 4, 2002). "Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (review)" . Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . 57 4 ): 497–499. doi :10.1093/jhmas/57.4.497 – via Project MUSE.
^ Richter, Daniel K. (April 4, 2014). "Book Review: 'Encounters at the Heart of the World' by Elizabeth A. Fenn" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved April 26, 2015 .
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