Written by Student Intern, Pierce Greer
We’re excited for Dr. Molly Nebiolo (she/her) to join us as an Assistant Professor of History and an Affiliate Faculty in the Interdisciplinary Program in Public Health at Butler University! She received her Ph.D. in World History from Northeastern University in Boston and her BA in History and Biology from Butler University. As a former student, Dr. Nebiolo is ready to be back on campus, as she states, “You cannot beat the community.” She looks forward to meeting the students and cultivating their interests within and outside the department. She also wants to connect her students with internships, create research projects using digital history, and build broader connections with the science programs at Butler University.
Outside of the classroom and research, Dr. Nebiolo is an ice cream aficionado! Her pick for the best flavor in the Butler area is blackberry at BRICS, but the most interesting flavor she has tasted is corn-flavored ice cream. Besides ice cream, she also loves to go camping, run in races, and watch Bake Off.
Areas of Research & Scholarship:
Dr. Nebiolo is a historian of science and medicine in the early Atlantic world. She also specializes in the digital humanities, which she describes as “computer stuff for historians.” Dr. Nebiolo has mapped colonial Boston and Philadelphia to understand how diseases spread in the early colonial period in the United States. Besides being an expert in these fields, she enjoys teaching about urban history and diseases, but dreams of teaching a class on food history. In the Fall of 2023, Dr. Nebiolo will publish in The Age of Revolutions in the Digital Age with Cornell University Press, which demonstrates the usefulness of 3-D modeling and understanding early colonial cities.
Upcoming and Current Butler Courses:
- FYS 101/102 – First Year Seminar: Space, Place and Memory
- HST 205/TI 204-HST- Questions in History: Whose Revolution Was It?
- HST 101/AN 101/CLA 101 – Close Encounters (team teaching with Anthropology professor, Dr. Julie Searcy)
- HST 302-01 – Junior Seminar
- HST 306-01- Topics in the History of Science: History of Medicine in the United States
You can learn more about Dr. Nebiolo at her professional site.