Jacqueline Antonovich

Executive Editor

@jackiantonovich

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, “Medical Utopias: Women Physicians, the Politics of Health, and the Formation of Reproductive Surveillance in the American West and the World, 1870-1930.”

Cassia Roth

Editor

@DrCassiaRoth

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.

Adam Turner

Layout Editor, Developer

@admturner

Adam Turner has a Master’s degree in history from the University of Oregon and is currently writing a dissertation on the intertwined histories of genetic counseling and advocacy around intellectual disability. Adam also works as a web developer with a love of clean, standards-based markup and accessible, user-centered design.

Elizabeth Reis

Content Editor

@lzreis

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.

Laura Ansley

Managing Editor

@lmansley

Laura Ansley is an editor, writer, and historian with degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the College of William and Mary. She works as a historical editor for love and as a technical editor for money.

Carrie Adkins

Content Editor

@historiancarrie

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.

Sarah Handley-Cousins

Editor

@sarahbelle721

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

@lmacthompson1

Lauren MacIvor Thompson is a Faculty Fellow in the Georgia State University College of Law’s Center for Law, Health, & Society. Her research centers on the forces of law and medicine, and their role in the early history of public health and the birth control movement. 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

@aearls

Averill Earls is an 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 Producer of the award-winning Dig: A History Podcast.

Amelia Grabowski

Social Media Manager

Bridget Keown

Writer

@sevenpaperclips

Bridget Keown is a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her dissertation focuses on the experience and treatment of war trauma among British and Irish women during the First World World. Her research interests focus around issues of gender, violence, imperialism, and the history of medicine during the First World War and Irish War of Independence.

Cara Delay

Writer

Cara Delay, Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston, holds degrees from Boston College and Brandeis University. Her research analyzes women, gender, and culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, Britain, and the British Empire, with a particular focus on the history of reproduction, pregnancy, and childbirth. She has published in The Journal of British Studies, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, Feminist Studies, Études Irlandaises, New Hibernia Review, and Éire-Ireland and written blogs for Nursing Clio and broadsheet.ie. Her co-edited volume Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950, was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2015, and her monograph on Irish women and the creation of modern Catholicism is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. At the College of Charleston, she teaches courses on women’s history and the history of birth and bodies.

Emily Contois

Writer

@emilycontois

Emily Contois is a PhD candidate in American Studies at Brown University, where her research explores food, health, the body, and identities in the everyday American experience and popular culture. She holds an MPH focused in Public Health Nutrition from UC Berkeley and an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University. Her dissertation, “The Dudification of Diet,” examines masculinity, food, and the body in contemporary U.S. media. She blogs at emilycontois.com and tweets @emilycontois.

Evan P. Sullivan

Writer

@EvanPSullivan

Evan is a PhD student at the University at Albany studying the intersections between gender, disability, and war in the twentieth century. He focuses specifically on veteran disability and rehabilitation in the United States following the First World War.

Lara Freidenfelds

Writer

@larafreidenfeld

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.

Sarah Swedberg

Writer

Sarah Swedberg is a Professor of History at Colorado Mesa University and a lifelong activist.

Kylie Smith

Series Editor

@drkyliesmith

Series Editor for the AAHN Nursing History Week series. Assistant Professor, Andrew W Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing & the Humanities, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.