Mark M. Lambert

PhD, Teaching Fellow, the University of Chicago

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My research analyzes the interaction between leprosy, religious belief, and public health paradigms, from the Middle Ages to contemporary America. I especially focus on Indigenous leprosy sufferers, Father Damien de Veuster, and Mother Marianne Cope in the leprosy settlements in Molokai, Hawaii. Read more →

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My work crosses the boundaries of Indigenous studies, the history of medicine, religious studies, and biomedical ethics, in an effort to understand and address stigmatic illness more broadly–especially in the present. My teaching spans from medieval and early modern Christianity to Indigenous religious traditions to global health. Read more →

Publications

My article, “Reckoning with Re-education: Christianity’s Role in Native American Boarding Schools,” was recently published in Sightings, assessing the role of religion in the first volume of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative’s investigative report–and detailing how religious groups have responded to the findings. Read more →

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