Heather D. Curtis

I’m a historian, author, and Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University. I write about how religion has shaped responses to humanitarian disasters, economic crises, and illness from the late-nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the ways American Christians of earlier generations endeavored to relieve suffering, I uncover the seeds of today’s heated debates about the about the practice of philanthropy, the politics of poverty relief, and the ethics of medicine. To learn more, please visit my website: www.heatherdcurtis.com.