Thank you for your interest in attending the virtual Science on Tap. Sadly, tonight's program will be postponed due to an unforeseen circumstance. For those interested in the topic, we will be bringing back the speaker the next time the American Philosophical Society hosts Science on Tap in 2023. If you have any questions, please email MuseumEducation@AmPhilSoc.Org.

Do cities influence the way we think about our health or the healthiness of our community? How might the physical landscape of cities construct these socio-cultural definitions? In this talk, Molly Nebiolo will discuss how inhabitants of early Philadelphia only needed to look outside to the streets or go for a stroll to observe, understand, and define the healthiness of themselves and their community. Molly will be using two examples, streets defining the Yellow Fever disease and waterways like Dock Creek, to show how spatial experiences were (and continue to be!) integral to shape public definitions of healthiness or sickness.

About the Speaker: Molly Nebiolo is a 6th year PhD candidate in history at Northeastern University and a dissertation fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center this year. She has been lucky enough to have her work be supported by the APS in multiple capacities, once with a DH fellowship in 2020 and more recently with a predoctoral fellowship in 2021-2022. Her dissertation argues that health was central to the way that pre-planned early Anglo-American cities were planned, built, and expanded.