Curriculum Vitae
Education
August 2020- PhD Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Dissertation Advisor: Jonathan Sadowsky
August 2010 MA
American Military University; American History
May 2007 BA California State University, Chico
Major: Middle East Studies
Minor: Religious Studies
Professional Appointments
California State University, East Bay, Department of Health Sciences
Hayward, California, Adjunct Instructor, August 2020
Cuyahoga Community College, College of Liberal Arts, Cleveland, OH
Adjunct Instructor, May 2017-January 2020
Notre Dame College, Department of History, South Euclid, OH
Adjunct Instructor, June 2015-present
Austin Peay State University, Department of History and Philosophy, Clarksville, TN
Adjunct Instructor, August 2010-May 2016
Teaching and Research Interests
Modern American History
Women’s History
History of Medicine
Medical Anthropology
Medical Consumerism
History of Reproduction
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles:
“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:
“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/
Manuscripts in Preparation:
“Controlling the Uterus: Oxytocin and the Reshaping of American Childbirth,” in preparation to submit to Pharmacy in History.
Book Reviews:
Review of Testosterone: an unauthorized biography, by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis. Harvard University Press, 2019. (Forthcoming)
Review of Leaving a Legacy: Lessons from the Writings of Daniel Drake, by Philip M. Diller. University of Cincinnati Press, 2019. Ohio History (Forthcoming).
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).
Presentations
INVITED TALKS
2021: "Pitocin and Natural Childbirth," Porter Fortune Symposium, "Public Health in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries," University of Mississippi. March.
2020: “Natural Childbirth and Patient Autonomy,” Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky, April *Rescheduled due to COVID-19
2020: “Labor Inducing Pharmaceuticals and the Nature of Natural Childbirth,” Research Ethics Lecture Series, Program for Bioethics, University of Kentucky, April. *Rescheduled due to COVID-19
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES and PRESENTATIONS
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.
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
Service and Other Activities
2019- present: Social Media coordinator for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
2020-present: Social media coordinator for POINTS Blog (the blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society)