I am a historian of science and medicine, with a particular interest in the historical contexts of reproduction, disability, and racial health disparities in the United States. My first book, Monstrous Conceptions: Race, Reproduction, and Medical Science in America, 1830-1930 is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. My writing appears 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 taught as a lecturer in History of Medicine at Yale University and in the History Department at Dartmouth College, where I was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. 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, concepts of race in science and medicine, disability, medicine and colonialism, and environmental health.