Rate My Professor Ann La Berge

Ann La Berge served as associate professor of science and technology studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, joining the faculty in 1981 and receiving emerita status from the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in 2014. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, two master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. La Berge taught history of science and medicine and focused her research on nineteenth-century French public health and medicine, along with the history of French medical microscopy. Her publications include one monograph, two co-edited volumes, many articles, and book chapters on French medicine and public health. Among her key works are the monograph Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge University Press, 1992), French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century, co-edited with Mordechai Feingold (Rodopi, 1994), and Constructing Paris Medicine, co-edited with Caroline Hannaway (Rodopi, 1999). These contributions have advanced scholarly understanding of French medical history.