Professor of History
Los Angeles , CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., History, 2003
M.A., American History, 1999
B.A., 1995
Western Association of Women Historians, 2006.
Countway Library of Medicine
2018-2019
National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer 2014
New York State Library
2013
Loyola Marymount University
2012-2013
Loyola Marymount University
Summer 2010
National Science Foundation
September 2007-August 2008
Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History
2007
Loyola Marymount University
Spring 2007
The Huntington Library
January-May 2006
Science, Nature & Society
The United States & the World
Health and Disease in American Culture
Gender, Technology, and the Body
History of Childhood and the Family
The Civil War
Imagining Lincoln
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
“Unpacking the Phrenological Toolkit: Gender and Identity in Antebellum America” in Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge, eds. Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), 91-107.
view moreMedical History
“Testing the Truth of Phrenology: Knowledge Experiments in Antebellum American Cultures of Science and Health” Medical History 63, no. 3 (2019): 352-374.
view moreBeyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge
“Woman, Know Thyself: Producing and Using Phrenological Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Beyond the Academy: Histories of Gender and Knowledge, Christine von Oertzen, Maria Rentetzi, and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, eds. Centaurus 55 (May 2013): 104-130.
view moreCommunicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine
“A Literary Physician? The Paris Writings of Mary Putnam Jacobi” in Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine Carmen Birkle and Johanna Heil, eds. (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013).
view moreWomen Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
“Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Nineteenth-Century Politics of Women’s Health Research” in Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine Ellen More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, December 2008), 23-51.
view moreBulletin of the History of Medicine
“Science, Suffrage, and Experimentation: Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Controversy Over Vivisection in Late Nineteenth-Century America” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79 (Winter 2005): 664-694.
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