Anne Paxton, on faculty in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, recently completed her MFA in creative non-fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts. For her thesis she completed a book-length manuscript about settler colonialism in Michigan and the states around the Great Lakes. The thesis focuses on exploration of the Michigan Territories and the actions of the US government in the decades before and after the 1830 Indian Removal Act, combining personal history, historical narrative, and reportage. The title,?Pure Michigan: Unearthed Stories of Settler Colonialism in the Old Northwest, refers both to the Michigan tourism slogan “Pure Michigan”, and the campaigns of genocide, resource plunder, and environmental degradation from the mid 1800s to the present.
Dr. Paxton holds Masters degrees in Public Health and International Affairs, and a doctorate in Epidemiology, from Columbia University. She has decades of work in the area of child undernutrition and vitamin A deficiency, primarily in Africa, and the challenge of maternal mortality in resource-poor settings. Until this year, she directed the Global Health Certificate program at the Mailman School of Public Health, and teaches global health and food systems courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Writing Alumna 2022