I am a historian of science and medicine, with a particular interest in the historical contexts of reproduction, disability, and racial health inequities in the United States. My first book, Monstrous Conceptions: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Science in America, 1830-1930 is under contract with Columbia University Press for the Series in Race, Inequality, and Health. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in academic journals including The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The American Journal of Bioethics, Isis, The Lancet, Gender & History, New Genetics and Society, and Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva. I received my PhD in History of Science from Harvard University.

I am currently the James Wade Rockwell Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Medicine at the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities at UTMB, where I teach in the PhD and MA programs. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. I have taught as a lecturer for the undergraduate Program in History of Science and Medicine at Yale University, the History Department at Dartmouth College, and the Section in History of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. I have also worked as a historical research consultant for Yale’s SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. My teaching spans topics in U.S. history and global health humanities, including reproductive healthcare, health and incarceration, citizenship and public health, racial health inequities, concepts of race in medical science, medicine and colonialism, disability, and environmental health.