Curriculum Vitae

2023-pres.: Visiting Assistant Professor, US History, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

2021-2023: Lecturer, History and History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2020-2021: NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

2017-2019: Instructor, Thomas Jefferson University-East Falls, Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D., History, Yale University, December 2015

M.Phil., History, Yale University, 2013

M.A., History, Yale University, 2012

B.A., Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, 2009

Visiting Student, University of Oxford, 2007-2008

Bryn Mawr College:

History of Reproductive Health in the U.S. (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)

American Health Politics (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)

Health Histories (Emily Balch Seminar, Fall 2024)

The 1990s (Spring 2025)

Go Burbs: Local Histories of Modern America (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

Media and Medicine in Modern America (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

Exploring History (co-taught, Spring 2024)

Approaches to Historical Praxis (co-taught, Fall 2023)

SUNY Potsdam:

Leader, NEH Summer Seminar for Faculty: Reproductive Health in/as American History (June 2023)

Yale University:

History of Reproductive Health and Medicine in the U.S. (lecture; Spring 2022, Fall 2022)

Technology in American Medicine from Leeches to Surgical Robots (seminar; Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

Marriage and Medicine in Modern America (seminar; Spring 2022, Spring 2023)

Activism and Advocacy in the History of American Health Care (seminar; Fall 2021, Spring 2023)

Additional teaching service at Yale:

Senior thesis supervision for History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health majors

Undergraduate advising for History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health majors

Discussion facilitator for first-year medical student humanities lectures (Yale School of Medicine)

Independent study tutorial: Gender & the History of Psychiatry (Spring 2022)

Thomas Jefferson University:

Topics in American Studies (Fall 2019, x2)

Cultures of Health and Illness (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019)

Debating U.S. Issues (Fall 2017 - Spring 2019, x7)

Gender and Diversity in the U.S. (Spring 2018, Fall 2018)

Yale University, as a Teaching Assistant:

Public Health in America, 1793-2000 (Fall 2012, Fall 2013)

Historical Perspectives on Global Health (Spring 2013)

Cultures of Western Medicine (Spring 2012)

Media and Medicine in Modern America (Fall 2011)

 (with Lauren MacIvor Thompson) “Introduction: Regulating Reproduction in the History of Pharmaceuticals and Drugs,” History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals vol. 65, no. 2 (Feb. 2024).

“Tech-ing the Trade: Notes on Reformulating Abortion and Its History,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 97, no. 1 (Spring 2023). 

 (with Naomi Rogers) “Introduction: Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 97, no. 1 (Spring 2023). 

(with Lauren MacIvor Thompson and Daniel Goldberg) “Allies, Not Authorities: Historical and Bioethical Considerations for a Post-Roe World,” Bioethics vol. 36, no. 8 (October 2022): 819-820. 

(with Lauren MacIvor Thompson) “Contemporary Comstockery: Legal Restrictions on Medication Abortion,” Journal of General Internal Medicine (June 2022).

“The Activist Archive: Feminism, Personal-Political Papers, and Recent Women’s History,” Journal of Women’s History vol. 32, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 88-109.

“The Case Against the Doctors: Gender, Authority, and Critical Science Writing in the 1960s,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences vol. 75, no. 4 (October 2020): 429-447.

(with Stephen T. Casper) “The Punch-Drunk Boxer and the Battered Wife: Gender and Brain Injury Research,” Social Science & Medicine vol. 245 (January 2020): 112688.

“Our Doctors, Ourselves: Barbara Seaman and Popular Health Feminism in the 1970s,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 93, no. 4 (Winter 2019): 550-576.

“Reproducing Jane: Abortion Stories and Women’s Political Histories,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society vol. 43, no. 1 (Autumn 2017): 77-96.

(with Lauren MacIvor Thompson) “It Doesn’t Have to Be the End for U.S. Abortion Rights,” History Workshop Online (February 3, 2022).

“MD’s Wife: Subscriptions and Prescriptions about Medical Marriages Across the Twentieth Century,” Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine (March 2020).

"Pinkie, Your Hospital Pal! Or, Why I Bought a Weird Old Hand Puppet on eBay," Nursing Clio (August 2018).

"Women's Health Advocacy at Work," Nursing Clio (January 2018).

“'The Whole Idea Might Seem a Little Strange to You:' Selling the Menstrual Cup," Technology's Stories (December 2017).

Review of Strange Bedfellows: Marriage in the Age of Women’s Liberation by Alison Lefkovitz, Journal of Family History vol. 46, no. 1 (January 2021): 107-109.

Review of Toxic Shock: A Social History by Sharra L. Vostral, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History vol. 37, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 295-298.

Review of Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence by Jacqueline H. Wolf, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences vol. 75, no. 1 (January 2020): 123-124.

“From Hospital to Home: Wendy Kline’s Coming Home: How Midwives Changed Birth,” Nursing Clio (May 2019).

“‘Acknowledgements in Essay Form:’ Briallen Hopper’s Hard to Love,” Nursing Clio (February 2019). 

“Regulating Reproduction in the History of Pharmaceuticals and Drugs,” Special Issue for History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals vol. 65, no. 2 (Feb. 2024). Co-edited with Lauren MacIvor Thompson.

“Revisiting the History of Abortion in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision,” Forum section for Bulletin of the History of Medicine vol. 97, no. 1 (Spring 2023). Co-edited with Naomi Rogers.

The Pill Hearings: Science, Politics, and Birth Control. Under contract, Rutgers University Press, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series. Manuscript in progress.

“The Pills,” The Nursing Clio Reader (Rutgers University Press). Manuscript in progress.

“‘What the Women Can Do’: Doctors’ Wives and the AMA’s Campaigns Against Socialized Medicine, 1924-1965,” article under review. Revise & resubmit.

“Labors of Love and Marriage: Doctors’ Wives and the Work of American Medicine,” article manuscript in progress.

Winner, Stanley Jackson Prize (best article published in the journal in the preceding three years) for “The Case Against the Doctors,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2022)

NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (2020-21)

MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society (2020)

Nancy Halverson Schless Fellowship, American Philosophical Society (2019)

History of Medicine Collections Travel Grant, Rubenstein Library, Duke University (2019)

Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine (2019)

M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner, M.D. Summer Research Fellowship, Drexel University College of Medicine (2018)

Finalist, Signs Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, for “Reproducing Jane” (2017)

University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University (2014)

Dissertation Grant, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University (2013-14)

Travel-to-Collections Grant, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College (2013-14)

Graduate Student Fellowship, Yale University (2009-2013)

Individual Lectures

Title TBD, Spring 2024 Seminar Series, Department of History, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

“Missing Mrs. Medicine: Tracing Doctors’ Wives in the Archives of the History of Medicine,” Health Studies Spring Colloquium,Haverford College, Haverford, PA

“Prescribing Reproductive Rights: Pills and the Politics of Family Planning, 1960-2024,” Spring 2024 Seminar Series, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

“Prescribing Reproductive Rights: Pills and the Politic of Patient Autonomy, 1969-2024” Spring 2024 Colloquium, Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

“Mrs. Medicine: Doctors’ Wives and the Making of Modern American Health Care,” Seventh Annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD (2023)

“Hippocratic Vows: The Doctor’s Wife and the History of American Medicine,” Beaumont Medical Club, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (2022)

“The Case Against the Pill?: The Controversy Over Birth Control Side Effects, 1965-1975,” Percy Skuy Lecture on the History of Contraception, Dittrick Medical History Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (2022)

“‘What the Women Can Do:’ Doctors’ Wives and the American Medical Association’s Crusade Against Socialized Medicine,” Boston Seminar on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Boston MA (2020)

“Behind Every Great Medical Man: Doctors’ Wives and American Health Politics,” David A. Walsh ‘67 Arts & Sciences Seminar Series, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (2018)

"Women's Health Activism, Then and Now: Lessons for Past and Present," Bryn Mawr College Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2018)

“‘Roe’ v. ‘Jane’: Telling Illegal Abortion Stories,” No Turning Back: The Past, Present, and Future of Reproductive Justice, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Symposium, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2017)      

“‘Liberate Yourself From Your Gynecologist:’ Historical Perspectives on Barbara Seaman, Second-Wave Feminism, and Consumer Health Activism, 1969-1977,” Lerner Lecture, Division of Medical Humanities, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY (2016)

“The Women’s Health Lobby: Feminist Health Activism in Washington, D.C., 1974-1977,” Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing Seminar Series, Philadelphia, PA (2015)

Invited Panel Discussions

Panel participant, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: DEI Stories Touching Medical Regulation,” Federation of State Medical Boards virtual webinar (2022)

Panel Participant, “Perspectives on Women’s Archives,” Delaware Valley Archivists Group Fall meeting, Philadelphia, PA (2018)    

Presentations (selected)

“Behind the Great Doctors: Locating the Physician’s Wife in the History of American Medicine,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022)

“‘The Truth of a Lonely Life’: Reconstructing the Life of a Doctor’s Wife Thanks to an Archival Confession,” Archival Kismet Virtual Conference (2021)

"Writing the History of the Women's Health Movement: Barbara Seaman, Historians, and the Activist Archive," Reproductive and Sexual Health Activism, ca. 1960-present, Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (2018)

“‘I Didn’t Think You Were Hysterical:’ Hysterectomy and Health Activism, 1982-2016,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Nashville, TN (2017)

“Writing the Women’s Health Movement: Barbara Seaman, Feminism, and the Politics of Biomedical Expertise,” Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science 2014 Introductory Symposium, Philadelphia, PA (2014)

“‘Liberate Yourself From Your Gynecologist:’ Barbara Seaman, Feminism, and Consumer Health Activism, 1957-1977,” A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s, Boston University, Boston, MA (2014)

“The Muckraker: Science Writing as Radical Critique, 1967-1977,” The Return of Biography: Reassessing Life Stories in Science Studies, Science Museum, London, UK (2013)

“Pelvic Autonomy: Barbara Seaman and the Emergence of a Feminist Health Politics, 1957-1977,” The Sixties at Fifty: The 5th Annual Boston University Graduate Student American Political History Conference, Boston, MA (2013)

Panels Chaired/Comments

Chair, “Anti-Abortion Activism in the Late Twentieth Century,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Kansas City, MO (2024)

Chair, “Biopower and Reproduction,” American Association for the History of Medicine Virtual Meeting (2023)

Chair, “Constructing Race and Human Reproduction in Medicine,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022)

Moderator, “Love, Loyalty, and Loneliness,” Archival Kismet Spring 2022 Virtual Conference (2022)

Moderator, “Law and Order?” Archival Kismet Fall 2021 Virtual Conference (2021)

Chair, “Prominence and Memory,” In Her Own Right: A Century of Women’s Activism, 1820-1920, Virtual Symposium (2021)

Chair, “Women, Race, and Reproductive Health,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI [2020; Canceled due to COVID-19.]

Commentator, “Catholics and Interfaith Conversations on Reproduction,” American Catholic Historical Association, New York, NY (2020)

Chair, “From Alimentary Canal to Zygote: Humor, Faith, and Resistance in Global Contexts,” American Association for the History of Medicine, Columbus, OH (2019)

Chair, “Labor and Lay Networks,” Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2018)

For the American Association for the History of Medicine:

Councilor (2022-pres.)

Member, Centennial Committee (2023-pres.)

Chair, Travel Grants Committee (2023)

Member, Shryock Medal Committee (2022)

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on New Media (2013-2014)

Additional professional service:

Contributing Editor, History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (2019-pres.)

Member, Steering Committee, History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society (2023-pres.)

Article Prize Committee, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (2022-pres.)

Member, Steering Committee, Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (2010-15)

Organizer, 10th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (2011-12)

Organizer, Frederic L. Holmes Workshop Series, Yale University (2011-12)

Department Representative, Graduate Student Assembly, Yale University (2009-10)

Referee for:

All of Us (Disability History Association)

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Gender & History

History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals

ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Social History of Medicine

MIT Press

Polity Press

Rutgers University Press

2022-2023 Public Voices Fellow, Women Faculty Forum, Yale University

Invited Guest (with Lauren MacIvor Thompson), “Abortion and Birth Control Have Always Been Linked,” Skipped History podcast (July 2022)

Invited Guest, Sam’s Shorts podcast: “Get Vaccinated, 1871,” Mark Twain House & Museum (December 2021)

Invited Speaker, Domestic Violence Task Force Meeting, PINK Concussions (April 28, 2020)

Guest Lecturer, “Study Hall,” Philly Improv Theater (August 30, 2019)

Quoted in Gabrielle Moss, “Why Are Menstrual Cups So Popular? Reusable Period Products Are Having A Definitive Moment,” Bustle (April 24, 2019)

Quoted in Natalie Shure, “Why Has It Taken the Menstrual Cup So Long to Go Mainstream?” Pacific Standard (June 14, 2017)

Office Administrator, HERS (Hysterectomy Educational Resources & Services) Foundation, Bala Cynwyd, PA (2016-2017)

Intern, Private Grants and Program Development, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, New Haven, CT (Summer 2011)