Nursing Clio Meet the Team

Editorial Team

Jacqueline Antonovich

Executive Editor

Jacqueline Antonovich is an Assistant Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Her current research focuses on women physicians, race, gender, and medical imperialism in the American West. She is also the creator and co-founder of Nursing Clio. Jacqueline received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2018.

Cassia Roth

Editor

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.

Elizabeth Reis

Content Editor

Elizabeth Reis is a professor of gender and bioethics at the 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. In her day job, she is managing editor at the American Historical Association. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0160-0190

Sarah Handley-Cousins

Editor

Sarah Handley-Cousins is a Clinical Assistant Professor History and Associate Director of the Center for Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is author of Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North (UGA, 2019), and is a producer of Dig: A History Podcast.

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.

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.

Lauren MacIvor Thompson

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.

Averill Earls

Layout Editor

Averill Earls is the Executive Producer of the award-winning Dig: A History Podcast, and 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.

Vicki Daniel

Content 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.

Eileen Sperry

Editor

Eileen is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at The College of Saint Rose. Her research and teaching interests include early modern English poetry, Shakespeare, composition, disability studies, and theories of embodiment. Her current project explores death and decay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English verse.

Gianna May Sanchez

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.

Amelia Grabowski

Social Media Manager

Amelia Grabowski is a public historian passionate about connecting the past to the present in engaging and creative ways. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage from Brown University.

Molly Brookfield

Assistant Layout Editor

Molly Brookfield is a PhD candidate in the departments of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is currently writing a dissertation that examines women’s experiences of street harassment in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Her research interests stand at the intersection of urban history, masculinity and gender studies, and the history of sexual violence.

Cassandra Berman

Assistant Social Media Manager

Cassandra Berman is a PhD candidate at Brandeis University, where she studies the history of gender, sexuality, and print culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Her research focuses on transgressive motherhood in the early United States and considers the relationship between the history of popular print and the history of gender and the family.

Writers

Bridget Keown

Writer

Bridget Keown is a lecturer in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is leading their gender and science initiative. She received her doctorate in history from Northeastern University, and her MA in Imperial and Commonwealth History from King’s College London. Her dissertation focuses on the experience and treatment of war trauma among British and Irish women during the First World War. She is also researching the history of kinship among gay and lesbian groups during the AIDS outbreak in the United States and Ireland.

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

Emily Contois is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa. She is the author of Diners, Dudes & Diets: Gender & Power in U.S. Food Culture & Media, forthcoming in 2020 from UNC Press. She completed her PhD in American Studies at Brown University and holds an MA in American Studies from Brown, an MPH focused in Public Health Nutrition from UC Berkeley, and an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University.

Evan P. Sullivan

Contributor

Evan is an Instructor of History at SUNY Adirondack. He holds a PhD in History from University at Albany, and specializes in 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.

Karen Weingarten

Writer

Karen Weingarten is an Associate Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Her first book, Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880- 1940, was published by Rutgers University Press. She is co-editor with Michele Friedner of a forthcoming special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on “Disorienting Disability” (June 2019). She has also published articles on American literature and culture in Literature and Medicine, Hypatia, Feminist Formations, and Feminist Studies (among other places).

Lara Freidenfelds

Writer

Lara Freidenfelds, PhD, is a historian of health, reproduction, and parenting in America. She is the author of The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: a History of Miscarriage in America and The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. Sign up for her newsletter and find links to her op-eds and blog essays at www.larafreidenfelds.com.

Sarah Swedberg

Writer

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

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. Assistant 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.