Research Interests: Infectious diseases; twentieth-century medicine; modern Russian history; Georgian history; Soviet history; medicine and empire; women's reproductive health; medical education; emergency care; public health policy

Molly Walker is a PhD candidate in History of Science from Atlanta, Georgia. Molly is broadly interested in the historical relationship between empire and disease. She currently studies the history of medicine in the former Soviet Union. Her dissertation focuses on the ways military and political conflict shape the meanings and uses of infectious diseases, using malaria epidemics of the 1920s in the country Georgia as a case study.

As an undergraduate at Davidson College, she wrote a history thesis on the 1918 influenza pandemic in Freetown, Sierra Leone and a French thesis on the 1914 plague epidemic in Dakar, Senegal.

Previous Degrees:

B.A., History/French, Davidson College