Jill C. Briggs, Ph.D.
jbriggscampbell@gmail.com
Education and Research
Fields: History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Dissertation: The Making of the Jamaican National Body: Colonialism and Public
Health, 1918-1944
2013 Visiting Scholar, Science Studies Program in the Department of History,
University of California, San Diego
2013 Ph.D. History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of California,
Santa Barbara
2012 National Science Foundation Embryo Project Training Fellow, Arizona State
University
2009 M.A. History, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006 M.A. Teaching in History, University of San Diego
2006 Secondary Teaching Credential, University of San Diego
2002 B.A. Art History and Classical Civilizations, University of California, Los
Angeles
Major Publications
2014 “Black Bodies, White Plague: The Jamaican Tuberculosis Vaccine Program,
1930-1944,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, under
revision.
2011 “"As fool-proof as possible": Overpopulation, Colonial Demography, and the
Jamaica Birth Control League,” Global South 4 no. 2 (2010): 157-177.
Recent Scholarly Presentations
2012 “Eugenics and American Embryology,” Paper presented at the History of Science
Society Annual Meeting, November 2012.
2012 “The Jamaica Hookworm Commission, 1918-1920,” Rockefeller Archive Center
Research Report, May 2012.
2012 “Black Bodies, White Plague: The Jamaican Tuberculosis Vaccine Program
(1930-1944),” Paper presented at the Porter Fortune History Symposium at the
University of Mississippi. March 2012.
2011 “The Rockefeller Tuberculosis Commission: Tensions between Research and
Eradication,” Rockefeller Archive Center Research Report. April 2011.
2011 “Venereal Disease in 1930s Jamaica: Moral Panic and a Case of Mistaken
Identity,” Paper presented at the Association of Caribbean Historians, 43rd Annual
Conference, May 2011.
2011 "As fool-proof as possible": The Foundation and Early Years of the Jamaica Birth
Control League, 1938-39,” Paper presented at the American Historical
Association, 125th Annual Conference, January 2011.
2010 “Jamaica Advancing”?: The Rockefeller Tuberculosis Commission and the
Tensions Between Research and Eradication,” Paper presented at Rocky
Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, 57th Annual Conference, April
2010.
2007 Panel Chair/Commentator “For and Against Women’s Suffrage,” Western
Association of Women Historians 39th annual Conference, May 2007.
Fellowships and Awards
2012 Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara
2011 Robert O. Collins Prize for best first publication by a graduate student, UC Santa
Barbara
2011 Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara
2011 Rockefeller Archive Center, Grant-In-Aid
2010 Rockefeller Archive Center, Grant-In-Aid
2010 ISBER Collaborative Student Research Grant, UC Los Angeles
2010 Badash Prize in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Santa
Barbara
2010 History Associates Fellowship UC Santa Barbara
2008 Maurice A. Biot Grant-in-Aid from California Institute of Technology
Teaching Experience
University of California, Santa Barbara
Summer 2011 HIST 107C History of Modern Biology
Spring 2011 HIST 17C
The United States 1917-present
Winter 2011 HIST 17B
Contested Visions of America
Fall 2010
BL ST 5
Blacks in Western Civilization
Spring 2010 HIST 17C
The United States 1917-present
Winter 2010 HIST 2B
World History 1000-1700 CE
Fall 2009
HIST 4C
Western Civilization 1700-present
Spring 2009 HIST 4C
Western Civilization 1700-present
Winter 2009 HIST 17C
The United States 1917-present
Fall 2008
HIST 4C
Western Civilization 1700-present
Spring 2008 HIST 2C
World History 1700-present
Winter 2008 HIST 4B
Western Civilization 1000-1700
Fall 2007
HIST 4A
Western Civilization
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University of San Diego
Winter 2007 HIST 126D
Fall 2006
HIST 126D
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Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
History of Science Society
American Association for the History of Medicine
Association of Caribbean Historians