Articles
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Colonial Colette: From Orientalism and Egyptian Pantomime to Polaire’s Jamaican “Slave”
I first read excerpts of Colette’s Sido in my IB French class in 2007, so…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news WWII and drug prevention.…
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Marie Kondo and Books: Tidying Up the Misconceptions
The Netflix reality TV show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo premiered on January 1, 2019.…
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“Acknowledgments in Essay Form:” Briallen Hopper’s Hard to Love
I agreed to review Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions a week before my long-time…
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Colorizing and Fictionalizing the Past: A Review of Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old
Five years ago, the Imperial War Museum in London contacted Peter Jackson (of Lord of…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Art of a revolution.…
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Take Back the Net: Joy Rankin’s A People’s History of Computing in the United States
Should I post a tough parenting question on Twitter, ask my Facebook community, or email…
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Discovery, Interrupted
It was the third and final week of my first dissertation research trip. I’d spent…
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Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Elizabeth I’s love life.…
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Quacks, Alternative Medicine, and the U.S. Army in the First World War
During the First World War, the Surgeon General received numerous pitches for miraculous cures for…
