Sarah Handley-Cousins

Executive Editor

@sarahbelle721

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.

R.E. Fulton

Managing Editor

@rebfulton

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.

Vicki Daniel

Managing Editor

@morbidmabel

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.

Averill Earls

Layout Editor

@aearls

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.

Molly Brookfield

Assistant Layout Editor

@mbrkfld

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.

Elizabeth Reis

Content Editor

@lzreis

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.

Laura Ansley

Editor

@lmansley

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

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.

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.

Eileen Sperry

Editor

@eileen__sperry

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.

Kristin Brig-Ortiz

Editor

@PoxyGraduate

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.

Chelsea Gibson

Editor

@gibsoche

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.

Anna Weerasinghe

Editor

Anna Weerasinghe is a PhD candidate in the History of Medicine department at Johns Hopkins University. 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.

Gianna May Sanchez

Editor

@GMSPhD

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.

Cassandra Berman

Editor

@BermanCassandra

Cassandra Berman 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. She is also an archivist at Georgetown University.

Natalie Shibley

Editor

@nshibley

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.

Sara Ray

Editor (On Sabbatical)

Sara Ray is a doctoral candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work explores monstrous births as an intersection between embryology, natural history, medicine, and disability between 1697 and 1849. Sara’s research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Science History Institute, and the Council for European Studies.

Ren Capucao

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.

Shu Wan

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.

Kevin McQueeney

Editor

Kevin McQueeney is an Assistant Professor of History and the Coordinator of the Black Studies Certificate Program at Nicholls State University. His research focuses primarily on African American health and health care history. He is the author of the forthcoming book A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, & Healthcare Activism in New Orleans (University of North Carolina Press, Spring 2023).

Minji Lee

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.

Heather Ellis

Social Media Manager

@heatherellis_

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.

Zoie Horecny

Social Media Manager

@ZHorecny

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.

Crystal Brandenburgh

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.

Bridget Keown

Writer

@sevenpaperclips

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

Contributor

@emilycontois

Emily Contois is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa. She is the author of Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender & Power Collide in Food Media & Culture (2020) and co-editor of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence & Negotiation (2022). 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 the University of California, Berkeley, and an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University.

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 of two special issues, Disorienting Disability (South Atlantic Quarterly, June 2019) and Inheritance (WSQ, Spring 2020) and has published articles in Literature and Medicine, Hypatia, Feminist Formations, and Feminist Studies (among other places). She’s currently working on a book about the pregnancy test for Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. You can follow her on Instagram @the_home_pregnancy_test for more about this project.

Lara Freidenfelds

Writer

@larafreidenfeld

Lara Freidenfelds 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.

T.J. Tallie

Writer

T.J. Tallie is an Assistant Professor of African History at the University of San Diego. He specializes in comparative settler colonial and imperial history, with a focus on South Africa. His interests include colonialism, gender and racial identity, indigeneity, sexuality, and religious expression. He is the recent author of Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa (2019).

Karolina Kuberska

Series Editor, Contributor

@K_Kuberska

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

@drkyliesmith

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

@metaphorish

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.