Tricia Starks

Tricia Starks has been a professor of history at the University of Arkansas since 2000 after graduating with a PhD in history from the Ohio State University. Her research explores culture, health, and gender and crosses boundaries between the fields of history, cultural studies, social sciences, and medical humanities. Her essays and reviews have appeared in everything from the American Journal of Public Health to the Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, and she has earned grants from the National Institutes of Health as well as the Kennan Institute for Advances Russian Studies. She is an award-winning teacher who offers courses in the history of medicine, Russian and Soviet History, and race and medicine. In addition to research and teaching, Starks has served in several administrative positions and now is the Director of the University of Arkansas Humanities Center.