On Leave 2017-2018
Education
M.A. University of Chicago, History (1994)
Ph.D. University of Chicago, American History (2003)
Courses
HIST 167 / AFR 167 / AMST 167
Let Freedom Ring? African Americans and EmancipationHIST 280 / AFR 280
African American History: An IntroductionHIST 374
American Medical HistoryHIST 452 / WGSS 452
Women in America, 1620-1865HIST 482 T / AFR 482
Fictions of African-American HistorySelected 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
