About
Until now, physician records from medical directories were only available in hard copy or as PDFs, making it difficult to visualize and explore patterns and trends. The American Medical Directories Project, managed by Dr. Benjamin Chrisinger, seeks to make medical directories available and searchable, and to thereby make trends in medical care more accessible.
The AMD Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is building a longitudinal, physician-level dataset from newly-digitized archival volumes of the American Medical Directory (1906-1938). The dataset will include valuable physician-level information, including place of training and practice, specialization, and demographic information, and will be made available and accessible to the research community and broader public.
Meet the Team
Center for the Humanities
American Medical Directories Project
On sabbatical- 2025-2026
Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion
Heather D. Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, and was previously Interim Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.
The Center for Humanities at Tufts and the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy would like to welcome Amanda Pepper as the new Program Administrator.
