Editorial Team
Executive Editor Sarah Handley-Cousins is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University at Buffalo. She is author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (UGA, 2019) and a producer of Dig: A History Podcast. Managing Editor R.E. Fulton earned a master’s degree in American History at the University of Rochester 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. Managing Editor Vicki Daniel is a historian of American medicine, death, and the body. She earned her PhD in the History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017 and is currently a SAGES Teaching Fellow and Instructor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. Editor Laura Ansley is an editor, writer, and historian with degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the College of William & Mary. In her day job, she is managing editor at the American Historical Association.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0160-0190 Editor 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. Editor Eileen Sperry holds a PhD in English Literature with a concentration in Cultural Studies. Her teaching and writing focus on early modern English literature, embodiment, and poetics. Her current book project explores death and decay in early modern lyrics. Editor Kristin is a PhD candidate in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation examines the intersection of water management and public health in nineteenth-century colonial South Africa, focusing on the ways port city administrators and residents collaborated and conflicted over how best to deal with their hydrological environments. Editor Natalie Shibley is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. She is writing a manuscript about race, homosexuality investigations, and notions of disease in the U.S. military from the 1940s to 1990s. She earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the first recipient of a joint doctoral degree in Africana Studies and History. Editor Anna Weerasinghe earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2022. Her dissertation, “Stuck Knowledge: Medicine and Immobility in Portuguese Goa, 1500–1750,” investigates how the patterns through which colonial medical knowledge traveled – or did not travel – were structured by gender, ethnicity, social status, and religion. She currently works in healthcare communications in Washington, DC. Editor Chelsea Gibson studies gender and violence both in the United States and the Russian Empire. She holds a PhD in History from Binghamton University, where she is currently a Lecturer. She also devotes time to public history projects, and has served on the board of a non-profit museum for the last four years. Editor Gianna is a PhD history student at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the history of medicine in the 20th century American West with a focus on reproduction, women, folk healing, and medicine in Latinx communities. She also works on numerous public history, digital humanities, and museum projects. Editor Cassandra Berman is an archivist and historian specializing in the history of women and gender. She holds a PhD from Brandeis University and an MLS and MA from the University of Maryland. Her historical research focuses on maternity and print culture in colonial America and the early United States. Editor (On Sabbatical) Ren Capucao is a registered nurse at VCU Health and a PhD student in nursing, digital humanities, and American studies at the University of Virginia—where he is affiliated with the Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. His research addresses issues amidst the nursing profession, politics of care, and Asian America. He currently is exploring his professional and cultural identities through his dissertation work that examines the history, racialization, and diaspora of Filipino nurses across the Greater United States and beyond. Editor Shu Wan is a Ph.D. student in history at the University at Buffalo. He mainly studies disability history in East Asia and North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. Editor Minji Lee is Assistant Professor of the Department of Religion and Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Currently, she is researching the ways in which medieval European medical theories and modern Korean folk medicine allow women to maintain their reproductive health and to understand their own bodies in positive ways. Dr. Lee participated in making a Korean independent documentary project, “For Vagina’s Sake (2017)” that demonstrates how Western premodern medicine “diabolized” women’s menstrual bodies. Layout Editor Averill Earls is the Executive Producer of the award-winning Dig: A History Podcast, and an Assistant Professor of History at St. Olaf College. She writes about same-sex desire in modern Ireland, with recent articles out in the Journal of the History of Sexuality (2019) and Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (2020). Her forthcoming book, Love in the Lave: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Postcolonial Ireland is under contract with Temple University Press. Assistant Layout Editor Molly Brookfield is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. Her research focuses on women’s experiences of urban space and histories of sexual violence in the United States.
Sarah Handley-Cousins
R.E. Fulton
Vicki Daniel
Laura Ansley
Lauren MacIvor Thompson
Eileen Sperry
Kristin Brig-Ortiz
Natalie Shibley
Anna Weerasinghe
Chelsea Gibson
Gianna May Sanchez
Cassandra Berman
Ren Capucao
Shu Wan
Minji Lee
Averill Earls
Molly Brookfield
Content Editor Elizabeth Reis is a professor of gender and bioethics at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. She is the author of Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which was recently published in a 2nd edition, 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. Social Media Manager Heather Ellis is a PhD candidate at Western University in London, ON. Her dissertation explores how Canadian shell-shocked veterans were cared for by their families, the hospital, and the state. Throughout her research, Heather has been interested in gendered notions of caregiving and how different pillars of care interact with one another. Social Media Manager Zoie Horecny is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of South Carolina. Her research addresses slavery in South Carolina during the Early Republic in an Atlantic context. She earned her MA in Public History from the University of South Carolina, and she works as a graduate assistant for a documentary editing project. Assistant Social Media Manager Crystal Brandenburgh is a PhD student in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines the development of maternalist political rhetoric and organizing strategy through the interwar women’s peace movement. Her research has been supported by the Princeton University Library and the Library of Congress.
Elizabeth Reis
Heather Ellis
Zoie Horecny
Crystal Brandenburgh
Series Editors
Karolina Kuberska
Series Editor, Contributor
Karolina Kuberska is a medical anthropologist with a special interest in maternal and reproductive health. She received her PhD from the University of St Andrews. She has previously worked with indigenous highland migrants to lowland Bolivia, concentrating on the relationships between emotions, sociality, and well-being as well as understandings of the body that incorporate traditional and biomedical notions. Between 2016-18 she was a member of a research team working on an ESRC project Death before Birth at the University of Birmingham, UK, that explored socio-legal intersections of decision-making processes in the experiences of miscarriage, termination, and stillbirth in England. Currently, she is a Research Associate at THIS Institute at the University of Cambridge where she is involved in a range of projects designed to improve the National Health Service in the UK.
Kylie Smith
Series Editor
Series Editor for the AAHN Nursing History Week series and the Beyond Florence series. Associate Professor, Andrew W Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing & the Humanities, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Sarah Turner
Series Editor, Contributor
Sarah Turner is a lecturer in Stylistics at Coventry University in the UK. She is a cognitive linguist, and her research interests focus on metaphor and figurative language as a way of conceptualising, expressing and understanding experience. She received her PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2014, then taught at the University of Tokyo, Japan from 2015-2016. From 2016-18, she worked on the ESRC-funded project Death before Birth at the University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently working with other members of the research team to produce a range of publications arising from this research.