Conversation between Robinson Visiting Fellow Professor Steve Zdatny and Robinson student Jude Lewis

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Steve Zdatny quit the food business in 1976 and began his long academic itinerary. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, with a concentration on modern French history. Professor Zdatny has taught at Wellesley College, Rice University, Augustana College (Illinois), and West Virginia University, where he was also department chair. He has been on the faculty at the University of Vermont since 2008. He has also lived and worked in Paris for several years, courtesy of grants from the American Philosophical Foundation, the Franco-American Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and two Fulbright Fellowships; he has twice been invited as a visiting research scholar at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales. Crossing the Channel, Professor Z was an academic visitor at the University of Oxford in 2023 and will be an academic visitor at the University of Cambridge in Spring 2025.

A History of Hygiene in Modern France: the threshold of disgust.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history...

Steve Zdatny's University of Vermont webpage.
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/history/profi....