Sandra Sufian, PhD
Assistant Professor
Phone 312-413-0113
Fax 312-413-2048
Email sufians@uic.edu
Bio
Dr. Sufian joined the Medical Humanities faculty in the Department of Medical Education at UIC in 2002. She has a joint appointment in the Disability and Human Development Department and the History Department. Before arriving in Chicago, Dr. Sufian held two postdoctoral fellowships: one at Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (2001-2002) and an AHRQ fellowship at Oregon Health Sciences University/Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (1999-2001). Dr. Sufian has a Ph.D. in Middle East History (NYU 1999) and a masters of public health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics (OHSU 2001). Her research focuses on the history of medicine in the modern Middle East, the history of disability, and international and women's health. Dr. Sufian teaches courses on the History of Disability, the History of Medicine and Public Health in the 19th and 20th centuries, Global Health Problems in Historical Perspective, and other historical topics at UIC. She is the founder and co-editor of H-Disability, a scholarly listserv that deals with issues in the history of disability and the chair of the Disability Task Force of the American Historical Association. She is the author of Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947 (UChicago Press, 2007) and Reapproaching the Borders:New Perspective on Israeli/Palestine (Rowman Littlefield Press, 2007).