Cherilyn Lacy

Professor of History & Assistant Provost

With roots in the teaching faculty, Dr. Lacy is part of the Provost’s team and partners with academic programs on faculty recruitment, program accreditation, and articulation agreements. As Hartwick’s Middle States Accreditation Liaison Officer, she directs institutional accreditation activities. She collaborated on the creation of the Public Health major and the Three-Year Degree Program, and has published, presented, and taught courses in the history of public health and medicine in France during the Third Republic and the First World War.

Recent courses taught:

Health and Disease in Modern World History
History of Medicine and Public Health
Epidemics in Modern European History
Europe and the World Wars
Revolutionary Europe
Contemporary Europe
European Imperialism
Europe in the Age of Terror
First-Year Seminar: Harry Potter’s England
Honors Seminar: Star Wars and History
Honors Seminar: Lies, Blame, and the First World War
Imagined Communities in France (Off-Campus January Term Program)
Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies

Selected scholarly presentations and publications:

‘Civilian Healthcare in Lyon, France During the First World War’ Presentation for The Tehran University of Medical Sciences-Kharkiv National Medical University International Universal Scientific Education & Research Network Spring e-Course, April 15, 2021.
‘Le Front intérieur médical dans les Hautes-Alpes pendant la Première Guerre mondiale,’ for Les Fronts Intérieurs Européens 1914-1920 (L’Arrière en Guerre). Edited by Laurent Dornel and Stéphane Le Bras. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018: 199-209.
‘The Medical Home Front in the Rural Hautes-Alpes during the First World War,’ Colloque: Les Fronts Intérieurs Européens 1914-1920 (L’Arrière en Guerre), Pau, France, November 2015.
‘Doctors and Nurses in Parisian Hospitals During the First World War,’ Internationale Konferenz: Nursing, 1914-1918: War, Gender, and Labour in a European Perspective, Ingolstadt, Germany, May 2014.
‘Bloody Days and Tragic Nights: Parisian Hospitals and Civilian Health,’ Society for French Historical Studies, April 2014.
‘Education, Mutualism, and Medical Consumers in Third Republic France, 1882-1914,’ Social History of Medicine, 21:2 (August 2008), 253-268.
‘The Doctor’s Indispensable Assistant: Women and the Work of Medical Caregiving in Late-nineteenth-century France,’ Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 16:2 (Fall 2004), 22-33.

College and professional service and affiliations:

Chair of the Faculty
Co-Chair, Middle States Self-Study
Coordinator, Public Health Program
Faculty, Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Peer-Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships in European History
American Conference of Academic Deans