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 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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Stephanie McKellop

Editor

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.

Amelia Grabowski

Social Media Manager

Writers

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.

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.