Professor of History, Faculty Fellow of the Davis Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity
Spring 2020 Class Hours
All classes being taught online.
Spring 2020 Office Hours
No meetings on campus.
Education
M.A. University of Chicago, History (1994)
Ph.D. University of Chicago, American History (2003)
Courses
HIST 301
Approaching the Past: The American Civil War (not offered 2019/20)HIST 374
American Medical History (not offered 2019/20)Current Committees
- Honor and Discipline Committee, Chair
Selected Publications
Books:
Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
Articles, Chapters, and Review:
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Invited Contributor. “Medical Care, Public Health, and Race” (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
“’I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation’: African American Doctors in the First Year of Freedom,” Chapter in edited collection, Precarious Prescriptions (forthcoming in Spring 2014, University of Minnesota Press).
Review of Becoming Free Remaining Free: Manumission and Enslavement in New Orleans 1846-1862, in the December 2004 issue of the Journal of American History.
Review of Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War in the November, 2009 issue of the Journal of Southern History.
Review of Sick From Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction forthcoming in the Summer 2014 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Research Interests
African American History. American Women’s History, American Medical History, African American literature, Emancipation
Theses Advised
Annie Jeong ’14 – From Pictures to Pageants through Plastic: Korea’s Changing Face
Courtney Alexander ’13 – In Spite of It All: Sexuality and Motherhood in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Program Connections
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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