Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D., History, Case Western Reserve University
Dissertation: “Pharmaceuticals and the Nature of American Childbirth, 1910-1975”
2010 M.A., American History, American Military University
2007 B.A., Middle East Studies, California State University-Chico
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
May 2023-present Wilson College; Humanities Department, Adjunct
September 2022-December 2022 University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Department of
History, Adjunct
August 2020-May 2022 California State University, East Bay, Department of Public Health; Hayward, CA Lecturer
June 2015-May 2022 Notre Dame College, Department of History; South Euclid, OH, Adjunct Instructor
May 2017-January 2020 Cuyahoga Community College, College of Liberal Arts; Cleveland, OH Adjunct Instructor
August 2010-May 2016 Austin Peay State University, Department of History and
Philosophy, Clarksville, TN, Adjunct Instructor
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Controlling the Uterus: Labor Inducing Drugs in American Childbirth, 1900-1970,” History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, March 2023.
“The Case For Western Reserve: Medical Education Reform in the Midwest, 1900-1920,” Ohio History 126, no. 1 (2019): 72-88.
“Premature Birth and Neglected Maternal Mental Health.” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 7, no. 3 (2017): 208-210.
Online Publications:
“With Roe gone, women could lose more than abortion rights,” The Washington Post, June 27, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/27/with-roe-gone-women-could-lose-more-than-abortion-rights/
“Abortion and Whispered Networks of Botanical Knowledge,” Chacruna Institute. January 2021. https://chacruna.net/abortion-plants-and-whispered-networks/
“Ergot and the First Roots of the FDA,” POINTS: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (24 September 2019). https://pointsadhsblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/ergot-and-the-first-roots-of-the-fda/
"Premature Birth and the Right to Grieve" Nursing Clio (1 October 2015).
http://nursingclio.org/2015/10/01/premature-birth-and-the-right-to-grieve/
Review: The Mama Sherpas, by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, Perceptions of Pregnancy Network (21 September 2015). https://perceptionsofpregnancy.com/2015/09/21/the-mama-sherpas-2015-reviewed/
Book Reviews:
Review of Testosterone: an unauthorized biography, by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis. Harvard University Press, 2019. The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs.
Vol. 34., No. 2 (Fall 2020).
Review of Leaving a Legacy: Lessons from the Writings of Daniel Drake, by Philip M. Diller. University of Cincinnati Press, 2019. Ohio History. Volume 127, Number 2, (Fall 2020).
Review of Alice Paul: Equality for Women, by Christin Luardini. The History Teacher 47, No. 2 (August 2014).
Review of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, by Michael L. Gillette. The History Teacher 47, No. 2 (February 2014).
Review of The Writing and Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, by John R. Vile. The History Teacher 47, No. 1 (November 2013).
Review of Into the Pulpit: Southern Baptist Women and Power Since World War II, by Elizabeth H. Powers. The History Teacher 46, No. 3 (May 2013).
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2019 American Institute of the History of Pharmacy PhD Thesis Support Grant
2019 Baker Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Affiliate, CWRU
2019 Baker Nord Center for the Humanities Graduate Research Award, CWRU
2019 American Association for the History of Medicine Travel Grant
2019 Organization of American Historians Travel Grant
2019 School of Graduate Studies Travel Award
2019 American Historical Association Council Annual Meeting Travel Grant
2019 NSF travel grant for the AAHM
2018 Society for the Social History of Medicine Graduate Student Bursary
2018 Carl W. Ubbelohde Prize for best Teaching Assistant in the last year
2018, 2017, 2015 History Associates Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University
2017 Travel Grant, Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
2017 Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Summer Research Grant; Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
INVITED TALKS
2022: “A New History of American Childbirth,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute,
California State University, East Bay. March.
2020: “Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Natural Childbirth,” Women’s Studies
Colloquium, Department of Women’s Studies, Texas A&M University. November.
2020: “Natural Childbirth and Patient Autonomy,” Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky. November.
2020: “Labor Inducing Pharmaceuticals and the Nature of Natural Childbirth,” Research Ethics Lecture Series, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky. November.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS
2020 “Vincent du Vigneaud and Oxytocin,” New Social History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy and University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy. September 24-29, 2020.
2019 “Why One Childbirth Drug Was Natural and Another Was Not,” Case Western Reserve University, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities. October 15, 2019.
2019 “Pushing Too Hard: Oxytocin in the History of American Childbirth; 1900-1950,” 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, April 25-28. Columbus, Ohio.
2019 “Preparing to Push: Natural Childbirth in the United States, 1930-1979,” on the panel “What Comes Naturally”: Motherhood in North America, 1850–Present. 133rd Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 4-7. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Organizer]
2019 “Pushing Too Hard: Oxytocin in the History of American Childbirth; 1900-1950,” on the panel, The Costs of Motherhood: Capitalism and Reproduction in the United States, 1900 to the Present, 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 3-6. Chicago, Illinois. [Organizer]
2018 “The Fungus that Changed American Childbirth: Maternal Mortality and the Ergot Controversy, 1927-1932,” the Biennial Conference for The Society for the History of Social Medicine, Liverpool, UK. July.
2018 “The Fungus that Changed American Childbirth: Maternal Mortality and The Ergot Controversy, 1927-1932,” Cleveland Humanities Festival symposium, “Beyond Empathy: Critical Perspectives in Medical Humanities.” 2018.
2017 “Recommended by Dr. Mom: Feminist Health Activism’s Influence on the
DE-medicalization of Childbirth in the United States, 1950 to Present,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 1.
2016 “The Case for Western Reserve: Medical Education in the Midwest, 1900-1920,” Case Western Reserve University, History Associates Fellowship talk.
2015 “Lamaze as a Consumer Movement: 1960-1980.” History of Women’s Health, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. April.
2012 “Beyond the Classroom: Enriching Community Partnerships to Promote Student Success,” Provost Lecture Series, Austin Peay State University, October 11.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Wilson College
World Civilization I
World Civilization II
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Health and Medicine in US History (Fall 2022)
California State University, East Bay
Health Humanities (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
Plagues, People, and Population (Spring, Summer 2021)
Homelessness, Urban Poverty, and Health (Spring 2021, Fall 2021)
Cuyahoga Community College
First Year Success Seminar (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
Introduction to Women’s Studies (Spring and Summer 2019)
Notre Dame College
Themes in American History; online, utilizing Moodle (Every semester)
Austin Peay State University
American History I, on campus and online utilizing D2L (Fall Semesters)
American History II, on campus and online (Spring Semesters)
Introduction to University Life, on campus (Fall semester 2011, 2012)
Case Western Reserve University, Teaching Assistant:
World History, (Fall 2017)
Introduction to History (Fall 2019)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
(2019-2022) Social Media Coordinator for the American Institute for the History of
Pharmacy
(2021-2022) Social Media Coordinator for POINTS Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.
(2020-2021) Curriculum Committee member, Health Sciences Department,
California State University, East Bay
(2019-2021) Member, Educational Outreach Council, American Association for the History of Medicine.
