Jennifer Fraser
Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
Email: jennifer.fraser@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
- Health History
- Global Health
- Gender & Women's Health
- Science & Technology Studies
- Colonialism
- Public Health
- Knowledge Mobilization
Education & Academic Appointments:
BA Hons University of Guelph
MA University of Toronto
PhD University of Toronto
Associated Medical Services Postdoctoral Fellow, Vancouver Island University
Research Associate, King鈥檚 College London
Knowledge Mobilization Fellow, University of Birmingham
Winter 2027 Office Hours:
Thursday 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Bio:
Jennifer Fraser is an interdisciplinary historian of health and medicine with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, policy, and public engagement. Her research explores how health inequalities are historically produced, with a particular focus on the social, political and technological geographies of cancer and the history of reproductive health. In 2025 she was a co-recipient of the William Bynum Essay prize for best early career submission to Medical History.
Selected Publications:
Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane and Lily Mahdavi, 鈥�,鈥� American Journal of Public Health (22 October 2026): e1-e11.
Thandeka Cochrane and Jennifer Fraser. 鈥�,鈥� Medical History 15 May 2026 *Recipient of the William Bynum Essay Prize
Jennifer Crane, Sydney Calkin, Maria Fannin, Jennifer Fraser, Cordelia Freeman, Josie Hamper, Carolin Schurr, Laura Perler, and Ellie Shipman, 鈥�,鈥� Geohumanities 3 June 2026.
Jennifer Fraser and Noah Stemeroff 鈥�,鈥� The Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited by Amy Kind and Julia Langkau. University of Oxford Press, 2026.
Shagufta Bhangu, Nickolas Surawy Stepney, Henry Llewellyn, Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane, Philip Jagessar, David Reubi, and Carlo Caduff, 鈥�Provincializing Global Oncology,鈥� BMJ Global Health 23 November 2025.
Jennifer Fraser, Thandeka Cochrane, and David Reubi, 鈥�The Model Multiple: Representing Cancer in Sub Saharan Africa,鈥� History of the Human Sciences (2024): 1-24.
Jennifer Fraser. 鈥淟ight Pollution: Auroral Displays, Space Physics and Epidemiological Imaginings of Inuit Cancer,鈥� in edited by Heini Hakosalo, Katariina Parhi and Annukka Sailo. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
Jennifer Fraser. 鈥溾�楽eizing the Means to Reproduction?鈥�: The Colonial History of the Cytopipette.鈥� Canadian Bulletin for Medical History 38, no. 1 (2021): 128-176.聽 *Shortlisted for Georgina Feldberg Memorial Student Award in the History of Health & Medicine
Jennifer Fraser. 鈥�Seeing (Infra)red: Epidemiology, Extraction, and the Birth of Breast Thermography.鈥� Technology & Culture 62, no. 3 (2021): 709-740.
Jennifer Fraser. 鈥�Rendering Inuit Cancer 鈥榁isible鈥�: Autopsy, Pathology and Nosology in Arctic Cancer Research.鈥� Science in Context 33, no. 3 (2020): 195-225.
Jennifer Fraser. 鈥�Hot Bodies; Cold War: The Forgotten History of Breast Thermography鈥� Canadian Medical Association Journal 189, no.15 (2017): E573-E575.