At the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine to be held at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Matt will present a paper entitled,  “A Fountain of Indignity: Germs and the Infrastructure of Racial Segregation,” within the panel, “Germ Theories: Fighting Infection at Home and in Public Room,” moderated by Nancy Tomes of the State university of New York, Stony Brook on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Materials from this presentation come from Chapter Five of Matt’s dissertation. Further information about the full conference program can be found on the AAHM web site. The PDF of Matt’s abstract for the conference is available here.