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 Kenneth Kiple
134 Williams Hall
 kkiple@bgsu.edu
419 • 372 • 8163

 

 

Dr. Kenneth Kiple, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1970). Kiple's research and teaching interests include Latin America and the history of medicine, disease, and nutrition. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Institutes of Health. He is the editor of The Cambridge History of World Diseases (Cambridge University Press, 1993) and (with Kriemhild Conee Ornelas) The Cambridge History and Culture of Food and Nutrition (Cambridge University Press, 2000). His other books include Blacks in Colonial Cuba, 1774-1899 (University of Florida Press, 1976); Another Dimension to the Black Dispora: Diet, Disease, and Racism (Cambridge University Press, 1981); The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (Cambridge University Press, 1984); The African Exchange: Toward a Biological History of Black People (Duke University Press, 1988); Biological Consequences of European Expansion, 1450-1800 (Variorum, 1997); and Plague, Pox, and Pestilence, Disease in History (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997). Work in progress includes: History, Food and Nutrition: A world View; The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Food; The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Human Disease ; and "The Perils and Politics of Plenty," for the Milbank Memorial Fund Centennial Project.

 
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