Dr. Victoria N. Meyer is an Associate Professor of Practice and Faculty Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program in the College of Humanities. She completed her Ph.D. in early modern European history at the University of Virginia in 2010. Her research and teaching interests cover the histories of medicine and public health, health humanities, exploring factors of gender and sexuality, language, and representations of health, medicine, and the human body. She has published previously on diverse subjects, including the circulation of knowledge with inoculation in the 18th century, images of nursing in film, and tattoos and the French Revolution. Her current work focuses on the causes and consequences of the polarizing rhetoric in the debate over inoculation in the 18th and 19th centuries across Western Europe. Her teaching explores not only health humanities, but courses more broadly engaging with the methodology and application of interdisciplinary studies to various topics.