CURRICULUM VITAE
Colin L. Talley, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor
Dept. of Behavioral Sciences & Health Education
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
cltalle@sph.emory.edu
404-727-4810
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1998.
M.A. History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1995.
M.A. History, San Diego State University, 1993.
B.A. Political Science, University of Houston, 1988.
EMPLOYMENT
2012-Present Associate Research Professor, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences & Health Education, Rollins
School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2006-2012 Assistant Research Professor, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences & Health Education, Rollins
School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2004-2005 Associate Research Scholar, Center on Medicine as a Profession, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
2001-2003 Consulting Research Historian, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences & Health Education,
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2002-2003 Lecturer, Depts. of History, San Diego State University, Mesa College, City College,
San Diego, CA
2000-2003 Adjunct Professor, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, San Diego
State University, San Diego, CA.
1999 Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
1998 Mellon/Sawyer Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Health, Culture,
Society, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
1997 Lecturer, Dept. of the History of Health Sciences, U.C., San Francisco
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Colin L. Talley.
A History of Multiple Sclerosis (Westport, CN: Praeger Press, 2008).
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Nehl, E.J.,
Talley, C. L., Ong, P.M., Takahashi, L.M., Yu, F., Nakayama, K.K., Lin, L., Ross, M.W., The
MATH Consortium & Wong, F.Y. Dating Preferences among self-identified gay men of Asian descent in the United States. Asian American Journal of Psychology, April 7, 2014, pp. 1-10.
Alvin Tran, Lavinia Lin, Eric J. Nehl, Colin L. Talley, Kristin L. Dunkle, and Frank Y. Wong.
Prevalence of Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of A/PI MSM
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, in press, 2014.
Beth Broussard, Sandra M. Goulding, Colin L. Talley, Michael T. Compton, “Social Distance
and Stigma toward Individuals with Schizophrenia: Findings in an Urban, African American, Community Sample,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200(11) (2012): 935-940.
Broussard, B., Goulding, S.M., Talley, C.L., & Compton, M.T. Beliefs about causes of schizophrenia among urban African American community members. Psychiatric Quarterly vol. 81 no. 4 (2010): 349-62.
Chadi Cortas and Colin L. Talley. ““Appropriate Remedial Action’”? Medical Students, Medical
Schools, and Smoking and Health Education in New York and the United States, 1964-1987.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 62(3) (2007): 316-335.
Colin L. Talley. “The Emergence of Multiple Sclerosis, 1870-1950: A Puzzle of Historical
Epidemiology.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. vol. 48, no. 3 (Summer 2005): 383-395.
Colin Talley. “The History of Smoking Cessation.” In Tobacco in History and Culture: An
Encyclopedia, ed. Jordan Goodman, Marcia Norton, and Mark Parascandola (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005), 481-490.
Colin Talley, Howard Kushner, Claire Sterk. “Lung Cancer, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and
Medicine, 1948-1964.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 59, no. 3 (July 2004): 329-374.
Colin L. Talley. “The History of the (Re)naming of Multiple Sclerosis.” Journal of the History of
the Neurosciences, vol. 13, no. 4 (2004): 367.
Colin Talley. “The Combined Efforts of Community and Science: American Culture, Patient Activism,
and the Multiple Sclerosis Movement in the United States, 1946-1960.” In Emerging Illnesses and Society, Negotiating the Public Health Agenda, ed. Randall Packard and Peter Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), pp. 39-70.
Colin L. Talley. “The Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis in Los Angeles and the United States, 1947-1960.”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 77, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 874-899.
Colin L. Talley. “The Emergence of Multiple Sclerosis as a Nosological Category in France, 1838-1868.”
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, vol.12, no.3 (2003): 250-265.
Colin L. Talley. “Gender and Male Same-Sex Erotic Behavior in British North America in the
Seventeenth Century.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 6, no. 3 (1996): 385-408.
REVIEWS
Michael Moon and Colin Talley,” Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik’s Film Winter’s Bone,” Southern
Spaces, December 6, 2010, http://southernspaces.org/2010/life-shatter-zone-debra-graniks-film-winters-bone.
Colin L. Talley, review of T. Jock Murray, Multiple Sclerosis: the history of a disease (New York:
Demos Medical Publishing, 2005), in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 80, no. 1 spring 2006.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT
Indigenous Health Promotion and Sexual Behavior Change among Gay Men in San Francisco, 1982-1987
COURSES TAUGHT
Emory University
BSHE 590, Capstone Seminar: Health Disparities
BSHE 567, LGBTQ Public Health
BSHE 500, Behavioral and Social Sciences in Public Health
BSHE 504 Social Behavior in Public Health
BSHE 579, History of Public Health
GHCS 300 Core Issues in Global Health
Previous Universities & Colleges
History of Medicine since 1750
History of Disease in the United States in the Twentieth Century
History of American Medicine through Film
U.S. History since 1865
U.S. History to 1865
World History to 1500
Introduction to Western Civilization
INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Colin L. Talley, 19 May 2013, Indigenous Health Promotion and Sexual Behavior Change among Gay
Men in San Francisco, 1982-1987. American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Colin L. Talley, 2 January 2013, History, Melodrama, and the Illness Experience of Chronic Disease in
the United States. The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Cornell University,
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College, New York, NY.
Colin L. Talley, 4 April 2012, Indigenous Health Promotion and Sexual Behavior Change among Gay
Men in San Francisco, 1981-1987. Socio-contextual Determinants of Health Certificate Program, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Colin L. Talley, 24 September 2011. Multiple Sclerosis: The Emergence of the Autoimmune
Paradigm, 1933- 2007. 8th Annual J. Willis Hurst History of Medicine Symposium. Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Atlanta Medical History Society. Atlanta, GA
Colin L. Talley, 17 September 2011. Melodrama in Public Health Campaigns. Melodrama: at the
Interface of Media and Genres Conference. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Colin L. Talley, 11 January 2010. Multiple Sclerosis and the Changing Experience of Diagnosis and
Illness in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The Program in Medical History and Humanities. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Colin L. Talley, Spring 2010. Advocacy, Disability, and the Changing Experience of Multiple
Sclerosis, 1946-2006. Disability and the Humanities Series. Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
(invited).
Colin L. Talley, 13 February 2008. A History of Multiple Sclerosis: Public Health, Politics, and the State.
Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Atlanta, GA.
Colin L. Talley, 13 November 2007. A History of Multiple Sclerosis. School of History, Technology,
and Society at Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA.
Colin L. Talley and Howard I. Kushner. 3 November 2006. Public Health Science and Smoking in
Atlanta, 1964-2006. History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Colin L. Talley. 5 May 2006. Applying the History of Medicine in Public Health and Biomedicine:
Historians and Tobacco Industry Documents. Luncheon Session. Annual Meeting, American
Association for the History of Medicine, Halifax, NS
Colin L. Talley. December 2005. The Problem of Remission and Relapses in the Framing of Multiple
Sclerosis: Social Technologies of Perception. Rethinking Chronic Disease – Historical and Conceptual Perspectives. The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, United Kingdom
Colin L. Talley. 12 April 2005. The Tobacco Industry, Medical Schools, and Public Health, 1954-1999.
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Colin L. Talley. 7 April 2005. The Etiology of Lung Cancer: the Struggle between the New Chronic
Disease Epidemiology and the Scientific Advisory Board to the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, 1954-1964. Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Birmingham, AL.
Colin L. Talley. 11 December 2003. The History of Smoking Cessation. National Conference on Smoking
or Health, Boston, MA
Colin L. Talley, Howard Kushner. 9 November 2002. The Scientific Controversy on Smoking and Health
in the 1950s. History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI
Colin L. Talley. 11 February 2000. The Emergence of the Multiple Sclerosis Movement in the United
States, 1946-1960. Sawyer Seminar, Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Colin L. Talley. 23 October 1998. Foundations, Government, and the Funding of Research on Multiple
Sclerosis in the U.S.A., 1920-1960. History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, KS.
Colin L. Talley. 13 February 1998. The Emergence of Multiple Sclerosis as a Research Priority and
Popular Crusade in the United States, 1946-1960. Sawyer Seminar, Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Colin L. Talley. 4 April 1997. Tracy J. Putnam, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, UCLA Hospital: The
Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis in Los Angeles and the United States, 1947-1960. Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Williamsburg, VA.
Colin L. Talley. 29 April 1995. A Most Mysterious Disease: Tales of Multiple Sclerosis (1868-1958).
West Coast History of Science Society, University of California, San Diego.
Colin L. Talley. 8 March 1995. Protean Paresis: A History of Multiple Sclerosis. Bay Area History of
Medicine Society (constituent society of the American Association for the History of Medicine), Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, California.
Colin L. Talley. 16 April 1994. American Medical Writings on Child Labor (1906-1934): The
Construction of the Legitimate Child Worker. Workshop: West Coast Faculty in the History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.
Colin L. Talley. 13 March 1993. Gender and Male Same-Sex Erotic Behavior in Colonial America.
Steven Schaber Memorial Gay and Lesbian Studies Symposium, San Diego State University.
Colin L. Talley. 26 February 1993. Somatic Theories of Homosexuality in Historical Perspective: the
Politics of Biology. Workshop: West Coast Faculty for the History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.
EDITORIAL REVIEW & CONSULTATION
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs
Biosocieties
American Journal of Public Health
Milbank Quarterly
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
William & Mary Quarterly
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Southern Spaces
WGBH Boston, A Science Odyssey
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
2014 BSHE Department Teaching Award
2006 Research Grant. Institute on Medicine as a Profession/American Legacy Foundation
1998 Sawyer/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and
Society, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
1997-98 Graduate Deans/Anthony Fee Scholarship, U.C., San Francisco.
1997 Rockefeller Archive Research Grant, North Tarrytown, New York.
1994-1997 Summer Research Stipends, Dept. History of Health Sciences, U.C., San
Francisco.
1993-97 Presidents Research Fellowship in the Humanities, U. C., San Francisco.
1996 Graduate Division Research Award, U.C., San Francisco.
1994-96 Regents Research Fellowship in the Humanities, U.C., San Francisco.
1992 Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society in History.
MPH THESES
CHAIR
Amy Wilson. Female Primary Health-care Physicians’ Attitudes of Lesbians in Israel. M.P.H.
Thesis. May 2008. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
COMMITTEE MEMBER
Beth Broussard. Beliefs about Causation of Schizophrenia and Their Associations with
Treatment Attitudes and Stigma in Urban, African American Community Members. M.P.H. Thesis. May 2008. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Yelena Blinder. Delayed Diagnosis in Kawasaki Syndrome. M.P.H. Thesis. May 2008.
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Linxia Vue. Stigma and Depression among College and Non-College Students. M.P.H. Thesis. August
2008. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Yoojin Kim. Factors Associated With Seeking Professional Psychological Help among Korean
Americans: Role of Religious Faith and Asian Values. M.P.H. Thesis. August 2008. Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Monique P. Young. The Benefits and Risks of Niacin Supplements. M.P.H. Thesis. May 2010.
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
SERVICE
Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department
2008- Present. Member, Curriculum Committee
2006- Present. Member, Admissions Committee
2010- Present. Member, Socio-contextual Determinants of Health Organizing Committee & Curriculum
Subcommittee
Rollins School of Public Health
2009-2011. Member, Rollins School of Public Health Curriculum Committee
2009. Member, Rollins School of Public Health Shepard Award Committee
School of Medicine, Emory
2007-2008 History of Medicine Subcommittee
Emory College
2007-Present. Member, Studies in Sexualities Committee, Emory College
2008-2009. Member, Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society, Emory
College
To the Profession
2010- 2013. Member, 2013 Annual Conference Local Arrangements Committee, Association for the
History of Medicine
Atlanta Community
2009-2012. Officer, Atlanta Medical History Society, Board of Directors
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for the History of Medicine
Languages: French (reading), Spanish (reading)