Paula Larsson
Paula Larsson | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Mary Lemessurier Award, James Burns Scholarship |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor Mark Harrison |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Medicine, colonialism, Canadian history |
| Institutions | Uncomfortable Oxford |
| Website | https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/paula-larsson |
Paula Larsson is a Canadian historian of medical and colonial history at the University of Oxford. She is most notable for her research into the history of eugenics, Social Darwinism, the First Nations of Canada, and most prominently the history of anti-vaccine conspiracies in Canada.[1][2] She is a winner of both the The James Burn Scholarship and the Mary Lemessurier Award.
Early life
Paula Larsson grew up in a large family based in Calgary, Canada. She was once a volunteer with a charity organisation known as Feed the Hungry.[3]
Public engagement
Larsson's activities largely involve public engagement with local history in Oxford. She was one of the developers of the Oxford and Empire Network, and the co-founder of Uncomfortable Oxford.[4] She is also a writer for The Conversation, where she contributes to the history of vaccine hesitancy in the English speaking world, and topics such as racism within anti-vaccinations movements,[5][6] the polio vaccine heist of 1959,[7] and the recycling of anti-vaccine talking points from the nineteenth century to the present day.[8] She is also a contributor to the Canadian Eugenics Archive.[9]
Other activities
Larsson was one the president of the University of Oxford's Canadian students society.[3]
Awards
Publications:
- Larsson, Paula, Diana Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch, eds. Bedside to Community: Fifty years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019.
- Larsson, Paula, “A History of Aboriginal Health Research within the Faculty (Cumming School) of Medicine, University of Calgary, 1966 – 2016,” in Bedside to Community: Fifty years of Contributions to the Health of Albertans by the University of Calgary, Paula Larsson, Diana Mansell, Frank W. Stahnisch (editors). Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2019.
- Larsson, Paula. "Lessons in Race: Curriculum in Indian Residential Schools, 1930-1950." History of Intellectual Culture 11, 1 (2014-16).
- Larsson, Paula. “Escaping the Asylum: Patient Resistance at the Toronto Asylum for the Insane, 1900-1940,” Proceedings of the 2013 History of Medicine Days Conference. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Citations
- ^ Spinney, Laura (2021-01-26). "Could understanding the history of anti-vaccine sentiment help us to overcome it?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ "Vaccine hesitancy: as old as vaccines". www.thenakedscientists.com. Mon, 14/06/2021 - 15:35. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "Paula Larsson CCSF Award Winner 2017-2018" (PDF). www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk. 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ "Paula Larsson". oxfordandempire.web.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ Larsson, Paula (2020-03-31). "Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ Larsson, Paula (2021-07-15). "The inherent racism of anti-vaxx movements". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ Larsson, Paula (2021-02-21). "COVID-19 vaccination: What we can learn from the great polio vaccine heist of 1959". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ Larsson, Paula (2020-10-04). "COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ a b "Racial segregation • Encyclopedia • Eugenics Archive". www.eugenicsarchive.ca. Retrieved 2024-04-27.
- ^ "Paula Larsson, 2018 | Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund". www.canadianscholarshipfund.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-27.