Dean of the College, Frederick Rudolph '42 - Class of 1965 Professor of American Culture
On Leave 2021-2022
Education
M.A. University of Chicago, History (1994)
Ph.D. University of Chicago, American History (2003)
Courses
HIST 167 / AFR 167 / AMST 167 SEM
Let Freedom Ring? African Americans and Emancipation (not offered 2022/23)HIST 281 / AFR 246 SEM
African American History, 1619-1865 (not offered 2022/23)HIST 301 SEM
Approaching the Past: The American Civil War (not offered 2022/23)HIST 368 / AFR 363 / AMST 368 SEM
Framing American Slavery (not offered 2022/23)HIST 374 LEC
American Medical History (not offered 2022/23)HIST 379 / AFR 379 / WGSS 379 LEC
Black Women in the United States (not offered 2022/23)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
Meadhbh Ginnane ’21 – ‘To do this through a simple maid’: the Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc’s Image in Fifteenth-Century France (with Peter Low)
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
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