Paul R. Greenough


Paul R. Greenough is professor emeritus at the University of Iowa. He is a specialist in the history of modern India, and environmental and global health history. He was also chair of the Global Health Studies Program. He is the recipient of the Hancher-Finkbine Medallion.

Selected publications

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-44. Oxford University Press, New York, 1982.Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, Duke University Press, 2003..Against Stigma: Comparing Caste and Race in an Era of Global Justice. Orient Black Swan, 2010.The Politics of Vaccination: A global history. Edited with Christine Holmberg and Stuart Blume, 2017.