Professional Summary
Dr. Mia Levenson is the Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Public Engagement of Science at the University of Cincinnati. Her research examines how popular performance constructed and circulated biomedical knowledge in the 19th and early 20th century United States. Drawing on histories of medicine, science, theatre, and popular media, her work explores how performances of biomedical expertise shaped definitions of race, sexuality, gender, ability, and health status.
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Education
PhD: Tufts University 2024 (Theatre and Performance Studies)
Positions and Work Experience
2024 -2026 Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine and Medical Humanities, Johns Hopkins University,
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Mia Levenson (2022. ) Epidemic Dramaturgies: Theatre and Public Memory During New York City's 1832 Cholera Outbreak.Theatre Journal, , 74 (4 ) , More Information
Mia Levenson (2022. ) "That's The Way Eugenists Play": Performing Utopian Fantasies of Race Science at the Eugenics Record Office.Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism , , 37 (1 ) , More Information
Mia Levenson and Heather S. Nathans (2021. ) The Mysterious Murder of Mrs. Shakespeare: Transgressive Performance in Nineteenth-Century New York .Journal of American Drama and Theatre, , 34 (1 ) ,
Other Publications
Mia Levenson, Michelle Granshaw, Elizabeth Son, Mac Irvine, Courtney Colligan, Noe Montez, and Victoria LaFavre (2023. ) Imagining New Possibilities: Career Diversity and Doctoral Education in Theatre and Performance Studies .Theatre Topics, 33 (3 ) ,
Book Chapter
Mia Levenson (2022 ) Anatomical Acts: Minstrelsy and Nineteenth-Century Performances of Popular Anatomy Identity, Culture and the Science Performance, Vol. 1: From the Lab to the Streets .Bloomsbury Publishing
Mia Levenson (2022 ) Exterminating the Phantom: Nativist Constructions of Contagion and Monsters in Nineteenth-Century New York City Monsters in Performance: Essays on the Aesthetics of Disqualification .Routledge
Additional Publications
Honors and Awards
2025 Eugene Garfield Short-Term Research Fellowship American Philosophical Society
2023 Dissertation Fellowship Center for the Humanities at Tufts University
2022 Graduate School of Arts & Science Dean’s Summer Fellowship Tufts University
2021 Short-Term Research Fellowship Consortium for History of Science, Medicine & Technology
2020 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Massachusetts Historical Society
2018 Provost’s Fellowship Tufts University