I am a historian of 19th and 20th century medicine and public health in the United States. My research examines the relationship between nutritional disease, community health work, and the political economy of capitalism in the U.S. South. Methodologically, my research blends the approaches and insights of social history, labor history, and oral history. I …
I am an environmental historian of the modern United States, specializing in histories of science and capitalism. I am particularly interested in how the production of knowledge about and the manipulation of the nonhuman world have shaped, and have been shaped by, U.S. state formation and capital accumulation. My first book project, tentatively titled Domesticating …
My interests include Medicine and society in twentieth-century America; race, medicine, and public health; medicine and popular culture; research ethics; and history of medical ethics. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1987 M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1979 B.A., Johns Hopkins University, History of Science, 1977 Books Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation …
My specialization is American Jewish. My Research and Teaching Interests include American Jewish history, Yiddish culture, Russian Jewish history, socialism, working-class history, and nationalism. Education Ph.D., Stanford M.A., Stanford B.A., University of California Books The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8. The Modern World, 1815–2000 Tony Michels (Co-editor), and Mitchell B. Hart (Co-editor). The Cambridge …
I am a historian of the US–Mexico border specializing in Mexican American banishment, citizenship and state-imposed illegality, and gendered migrations. I am the author of the highly acclaimed and award-winning monograph, Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Harvard University Press, 2025). I investigate how processes of mass immigration removals have …
My specialization is U.S. intellectual and cultural history. My research and teaching interests include the history of philosophy, political and social theory, religion, literature, and the visual arts; the transatlantic flow of intellectual and cultural movements; print culture; and cultural studies. I teach a range of courses on U.S. thought and culture, and intellectual and …
My specialization is Educational Policy Studies. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of American and European education and on an array of reform movements in American history. Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison M.A., Bowling Green State University B.A., Wilkes College Books Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History William Reese. …
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar of twentieth century American Indian and Indigenous histories, with a special focus on the Great Lakes. My research interests include Indigenous social movements and urban histories, special focus on Indigenous cultural, communal, and political continuity. I’m also interested in the gender dynamics at play in multiple different forms of Indigenous activism. …
I am a legal and political historian of the United States Empire and a social historian of international law. My research focuses on questions of political economy, legal claims-making, and critiques of state violence. I teach and advise broadly in histories of the North American West, US Foreign Relations, and international order. My first book, …
I am a scholar of United States history and Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a particular research focus on Native schooling. I teach courses in American Indian History, Native education, and environmental history. My first book, Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and Indigenous Schools (UPenn Press, 2026) is an intellectual history of America’s most prominent …