Areas of Research Interest:

  • Civil War and American Medicine
  • Race and Medicine
  • Southern Diseases
  • History of the body
  • War and Medicine
  • Infectious diseases in the nineteenth century particularly cholera, smallpox, gangrene, erysipelas, pyemia
  • Experimental method in medicine
  • Medical case reporting and knowledge production in nineteenth and twentieth century medicine
  • Vaccination
  • Identity in American medicine
  • Medical Photography
  • Histories of Scientific Observation

General Teaching Interests:

  • History of Medicine and Science
  • War, Society and Medicine
  • History of public health in the U.S. and Canada
  • The 1850s: The Union in Peril
  • Civil War and Reconstruction
  • Jacksonian America
  • The United States from Colonization to 1877
  • Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1865
  • Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South
  • The Atlantic slave trade and black enslavement in America
  • The American Presidency

Advanced Teaching Interests:

  • Comparative medical history, particularly, American, French and German medicine and medical cultures in the nineteenth-century
  • The development of medical technology and the laboratory in nineteenth and twentieth century medicine
  • Southern diseases and southern/regional “distinctiveness” in American medicine
  • Bio-medical ethics
  • Medical Photography/Medical Technology as an investigative resource
  • Histories of Scientific Observation and Technology