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Kenneth Kiple
134 Williams Hall
kkiple@bgnet.bgsu.edu
419 • 372 • 8163
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Kenneth Kiple, 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); T
he 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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