Panorama, a World History: Volume 1: Beginnings to 1500

Willoughby, Urmi Engineer: - Urmi Engineer Willoughby is an Associate Professor of History at Pitzer College, where she teaches courses on the intersection of health and ecology in North America and in world history. Her research focuses on histories of disease and medicine from a global and ecological perspective. Her first book, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) was awarded the 2017 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history. Her current project, titled Cultivating Malaria: The Historical Ecology of Fever in Early America, is an environmental and cultural history of malaria in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.