Dr. Elizabeth Fairhead

Lecturer

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Elizabeth Fairhead is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher whose research focuses on Natural History in Early America and the intersections of religious and scientific thought. Her manuscript, Essential Nature: Bartram’s Garden and Natural History in Philadelphia, 1790-1825 is under revision. She contributed to the Introduction to “William Bartram’s Weather Diary” in University of Georgia Press’s William Bartram’s Manuscripts (Volume 2) and “Alexander Wilson” in the History of Science in America: An Encyclopedia of Research and Discovery, Russell Lawson, ed.  

She has experience teaching in multiple disciplines, including American History, World History, Interdisciplinary Humanities and English as a Second Language. She holds a Master Degree in Liberal Studies from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University. She has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards, as well as the Fothergill Award for Excellence in Research of William Bartram and Early America. 

Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, she lived in a half-dozen states and a few different countries before settling in Louisville.