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Research Interests

• Race and Medicine in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the impact of racial theory on African American Civil War soldiers.

Recent Publications

• review of Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine, by Carole Adrienne, The Journal of Military History (Forthcoming).
• review of W.G.: The Opium-addicted Pistol Toting Preacher Who Raised the First Federal African American Union Troops, by Donna Burtch & William Burch, The Civil War Monitor (Forthcoming).
• review of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, by Rana Hogarth, Southern Historian (Spring 2021).

Awards & Honors

• Charles G. Summersell Fellow in Southern History, The University of Alabama, 2022-3
• Frank Lawrence Owlsey Memorial Scholarship, The University of Alabama, 2022