Nursing Clio Meet the Team

Editorial Team

Jacqueline Antonovich

Executive Editor

Jacqueline Antonovich is the creator, co-founder, and executive editor of Nursing Clio. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, focusing on the history of gender, health, and politics in the Progressive-Era United States. She is currently working on her dissertation, “Doctoring the Land: Women Physicians, the Politics of Health, and the Geography of Medicine in the American West, 1870-1930.

Adam Turner

Layout Editor, Developer

Adam Turner is a history doctoral candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Oregon. Their research and teaching centers on histories of science, medicine, gender, and class in the 20th-century United States. Turner’s current project explores the history of genetic counseling as it relates to disability and reproduction. It looks particularly at the interactions and multiple perspectives on difference, disease, and disability that shaped the field and at the same time influenced ideas about reproduction, responsibility, and the line between difference and disorder. Adam also coordinates the Disability Studies Research Interest Group at the University of Oregon.

Elizabeth Reis

Content Editor

Elizabeth Reis is a professor of gender studies at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. Before that she was Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex and Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. She is also the editor of American Sexual Histories: A Social and Cultural History Reader.

Carrie Adkins

Content Editor

Carrie Adkins earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Oregon in 2013. Her specific scholarly interests include gender, sexuality, race, and medicine in American history.

Laura Ansley

Managing Editor

Laura Ansley is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the College of William and Mary, where she is writing a dissertation called “Life Problems: Sex Education in the United States, 1890-1930.” Her broad research and teaching interests include the history of women, gender, sexuality, childhood, and medicine. She holds an MA from the College of William and Mary and a BA from Case Western Reserve University.

Sarah Handley-Cousins

Editor

Sarah Handley-Cousins holds a PhD in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She studies and writes about gender, disability, and war.

R.E. Fulton

Editor

R.E. Fulton finished work for a Master’s Degree in American History at the University of Rochester in New York State in 2015. Their master’s thesis dealt with popular texts on abortion written by physicians in the mid-19th century, and previous research has focused on science fiction publishing in the mid-twentieth century. A student of medical historians who vowed never to become a historian of science, Fulton is now fascinated by questions surrounding history, medicine, print culture, feminism, and popular science.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson

Editor

Lauren MacIvor Thompson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Kennesaw State University and a Visiting Fellow in the Georgia State University College of Law. She earned her Ph.D. from GSU in May 2016. Her research centers on the forces of law and medicine, and their role in the early history of birth control. She has a background in Public History and before returning for her doctorate, worked for various history museums and state agencies on historic garden preservation, public history projects, and Section 106 federal and state historic resource protection.

Averill Earls

Assistant Layout Editor

Averill Earls is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Mercyhurst University in Erie, PA. Her current research examines the policing of male same-sex desire in post-colonial Ireland. She is also the Executive Editor of the sometimes funny and always relevant History Buffs Podcast, and does a little history consulting on the side, from exhibit curation to professional development workshops for teachers.

Stephanie McKellop

Social Media Manager

Stephanie McKellop is a Queer disabled feminist and a current Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania. They research folk customs and rituals of marriage, divorce, sex, bodies, and bodywork in cultural contact zones of “Vast Early America” as well as the meaning of family in racial and cultural comparison. Specifically, their dissertation will focus on practices of self-marriage and self-divorce in “backcountry” spaces, with an emphasis on wife-selling. Their personal-activist research centers around issues of class, poverty, first generation/low income, mental illness, disability, race, gender, and sexuality, especially in pedagogical contexts and regarding students’ rights.

Writers

Austin C. McCoy

Writer

Austin C. McCoy is a Phd Candidate in History at the University of Michigan. He is writing a dissertation on progressives’ responses to plant closings and urban fiscal crises in the Midwest during the 1970s and 1980s.

Cara Delay

Writer

Cara Delay, Associate Professor of History and Interim Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at the College of Charleston, holds degrees from Boston College and Brandeis University. Her research focuses on women, gender, and culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland. She has published in The Journal of British Studies, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Feminist Studies, Études Irlandaises, New Hibernia Review, and Éire-Ireland. In 2012, she received a Fulbright fellowship to travel to Dublin to research and write Desolate Journeys: Reproduction and Motherhood in Ireland. Her co-edited volume, Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950 (Palgrave Macmillan), was published in 2015.

Cassia Roth

Contributor

Cassia received her PhD in Latin American History with a Concentration in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book manuscript, titled A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1890-1940), examines reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro. Cassia’s research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Coordinating Council for Women in History, the Fulbright IIE, and the National Science Foundation.

Ginny Engholm

Writer

Ginny Engholm recently completed her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in the department of English. Her interdisciplinary dissertation, titled “The Power of Multiplying: Reproductive Control in American Culture, 1850-1930,” traces the rise of modern birth control in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current work-in–progress examines miscarriage, pregnancy loss, and stillbirth in American culture. She teaches at a small college in the Liberal Arts department in Baton Rouge, LA.

Ian Lekus

Writer

Ian Lekus is an independent historian and an LGBT Thematic Specialist for Amnesty International USA. He has taught U.S. and world history, sexuality and gender studies, HIV/AIDS, and other topics at Harvard, Duke, Cornell, Tufts, and the Universities of Georgia and Maryland. He is currently completing his first book, Queer and Present Dangers: Sexuality, Masculinity, and the Sixties, under advance contract with the University of North Carolina Press, and is developing a new project on LGBT human rights around the globe. Both his advocacy and his scholarship address the intersections between grassroots social movements, political and cultural change, and sexuality and gender.

Lara Freidenfelds

Writer

Lara Freidenfelds, PhD, is a historian of sex, reproduction and women’s health in America, and the author of The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. In addition to writing for Nursing Clio, she blogs with the historian’s perspective on sex, reproduction and women’s health at larafreidenfelds.com, and offers a monthly e-newsletter with updates on her book-in-progress, Counting Chickens Before They Hatch?: Miscarriage in American Culture.

Leah Reis-Dennis

Writer

Leah Reis-Dennis is the co-founder of Verse Video Education, a non-profit educational media production company, and a producer for its flagship project, Poetry in America. She blogs about poetry and women’s health for Nursing Clio, and has been involved in reproductive justice organizing since 2007, having worked with Planned Parenthood, EMILY’s List, Advocates for Youth, and Harvard Students for Choice. Leah received an AB in History and Literature from Harvard University.

Sarah Pripas

Writer

Sarah Pripas holds a PhD in history from UCLA, specializing in the history of women, gender, and medicine. Her research articles appear in Gender & History and Great Plains Quarterly. As a Lecturer at UCLA, she has taught women’s history and the social history of medicine.