Dr. Sarah W. Tracy

Sarah W. Tracy, Ph.D. is a professor of the history of medicine at the University of Oklahoma Honors College and in the Department of History Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences. Her research engages the disciplines of food studies, the history and sociology of medicine and biomedicine, bioethics, and biography.  Her research explores the evolving global politics of diet, drink, and disease in the 19th through early 21st centuries. In addition to teaching undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, Tracy is the founding director of the OU Medical Humanities Scholars (BA-MD) Program and Medical Humanities minor. She is a regular consultant and contributor to documentaries, podcasts, and museum exhibitions.