Nadja Durbach was born in the United Kingdom. She grew up in Canada and attended the University of British Columbia, earning a BA (Hons.) in 1993. She completed her PhD in History at the Johns Hopkins University in 2000. That same year she joined the faculty of the University of Utah’s History Department where she is currently a Professor and co-editor of the Journal of British Studies. She is the author of Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (Duke, 2005), Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (California, 2010), and Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State (Cambridge, 2020). Her current book project is entitled Registration Nation: Identity, Privacy, and the Recording of Persons in Modern Britain.
