Victoria Angela Harden

Background

Harden, Victoria Angela was born on January 10, 1944 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Daughter of William Charles and Florence (Hembree) Harden.

Education

Bachelor, Emory University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Emory University, 1983. Master of Arts, University Florida, 1968.

Career

Instructor, Huston-Tillotson College, Austin, Texas, 1968-1972; part-time instructor, Howard College Big Spring, Texas, 1972-1974; teacher, Dixie County High School, Cross City, Florida, 1974-1975; teacher, Marietta (Georgia) High School, 1975-1979; historian, National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland., 1984-1986; historian, curator, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1986; director DeWitt Stetten Junior Museum Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1986.

Achievements

• Victoria Angela Harden has been listed as a noteworthy historian, curator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth-Century Disease (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine)

Membership

Member of National Council on Public History (executive council 1999—2002), Washington Society for the History of Medicine (vice president 1992-1993, president 1993-1994), Organization American Historians (chair public history committee 2001-2002), Society for History in the Federal Government (council member since 1995, president 1998-1999, Powell award 1988, Adams award 1991), History of Science Society, American Association Museum, American History Association (executive council 2002-2005), American Association of the History of Medicine (co-chair Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome history group since 1988, council 1989-1992), Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Charles Durward McDonell Junior, May 14, 1966 (divorced 1975). Children: Charles Durward III, Emily Victoria. Married Robert Lewis Berger, May 23, 1981.

Father:

William Charles Harden

Mother:

Florence (Hembree) Harden

Spouse:

Robert Lewis Berger

Spouse:

Charles Durward McDonell Junior

child:

Charles Durward III Harden

child:

Emily Victoria Harden