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Olivia Campbell

Olivia Campbell
Olivia Campbell is the author of Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Cut, Smithsonian Magazine, HISTORY, The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, and Aeon, among others.


The Creation of Yourself: On the Flow and Fugue of Dance

Olivia Campbell Considers the Legendary Absorption of the Dancer
February 17, 2022  By Olivia Campbell
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The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer

Olivia Campbell Explores What It Takes to Balance Art and Parenting in America
September 3, 2021  By Olivia Campbell
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The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

Olivia Campbell on the Unremembered and Underappreciated
March 5, 2021  By Olivia Campbell
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When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

What Else is Lost When an Iconic Landscape is Destroyed?
October 19, 2017  By Olivia Campbell
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The History of the Bendable, Durable, Chewable Board Book

Children's Literature was Once All Work and No Play
July 21, 2017  By Olivia Campbell
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