Teaching
Histories of Slavery, 'Race', Health and Medicine
Histories of Health and Medicine in the United States Histories of American Slavery Histories of the African American experience Histories of the American South Since joining the Department in autumn 2005 have taught, coordinated and contributed to a wide range and number of undergraduate and graduate modules. Have also supervised a large number of undergraduate dissertations on a extensive variety of topics exploring histories of bodies, disease, 'race', health, medicine, and slavery in the United States. At Masters level teach on both the interdisciplinary 'Health, Cultures and Societies' and the International Slavery Studies programs. Have supervised a large number MA dissertations exploring various social and cultural histories of bodies, disease, 'race', health and medicine in the United States and histories of American slavery. Working with Professor Alison Fell and Laura Clouting and Sarah Paterson from the Imperial War Museum, London, am a co-supervisor for: Rachel Ditchfield (AHRC CDP studentship) 'The Bethlem Royal Hospital during the First World War' Working with Chris Pearson and Christienna Fryar, am a co-supervisor for: Victoria Shea (ARHC PhD studentship) 'Racism and companion species relationships in the American South' Working with Michael Tadman, was a co-supervisor for: Andrea Livesey (ESRC PhD studentship), 'Sexual Violence in the Slaveholding Regimes of Louisiana and Texas' [completed August 2015] Working with Mark Peel and Graeme Milne, was a co-supervisor for: Emily Trafford (AHRC PhD studentship), ‘Where the Races Meet’:Racial Framing through Live Display at the American West Coast World’s Fairs, 1894-1916' [completed December 2015] Working with Richard Huzzey (Durham University) and William Ashworth, was part of the supervisory team for: Joe Kelly (ESRC CASE studentship, 2014) 'Supply Chains and Moral Responsibility: Slavery and Capitalism after British Emancipation' [completed 2017] Working with Deana Heath and Celia Donert, was a co-supervisor for: Beth Wilson (AHRC PhD studentship) '"I ain' mad now and I know taint no use to lie": The Framing, Editing and Manipulation of Emotions in 1930s Ex-Slave Documents' [completed September 2019] Working with Graeme Milne, Alex Buchanan, was a co-supervisor for Nicholas Fuqua, ‘Mapping the Architecture of Slavery: Racial Capitalism and the Shaping of Space in Liverpool and Charleston’ [completed 2020]
A few recommendations ...
Students interested in histories of slavery, 'race', the body, health and medicine might want to some consult the following key works: George J. Annas, The Rights of Patients (2nd edition, 1992 and 3rd edition, 2004) Margo DeMello, Body Studies: An Introduction (2014). Elizabeth Edwards, Photographs and the Practice of History: A Short Primer (2022) Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey, Racist America (4th edition, 2018). Sharla Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (2002). Vanessa Northington Gamble, Making a Place for Ourselves: the Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945 (1995). Rana Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (2017). Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999). Susan Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War (1995). Susan Reverby, Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (2009). Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997). Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, Deborah Willis, eds., To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes (2020) Gillian Rose, Visual Methodologies: An introduction to researching with visual materials (5th edition, 2022). Michael Sappol, A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (2002). Todd Savitt, Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (1978). Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016). Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1996). John Harley Warner and James Edmonson, Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine: 1880-1930 (2009).
Modules for 2024-25
BODIES AND POWER: ENCOUNTERS IN MODERN AMERICAN HEALTH, MEDICINE AND SOCIETY
Module code: HIST268
Role: Module Co-ordinator
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Module code: HLAC705
Role: Teaching
CRITICAL MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Module code: HLAC701
Role: Teaching
CRITICAL MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Module code: HLAC711
Role: Teaching
GENERATIONS OF HURT: HISTORIES OF HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Module code: HIST341
Role: Module Co-ordinator
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Module code: HIST507
Role: Teaching
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Module code: HIST527
Role: Teaching
HISTORY DISSERTATION
Module code: HIST396
Role: Teaching
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Module code: HLAC704
Role: Teaching
REPRESENTING SLAVERY
Module code: MODL515
Role: Teaching
RESEARCHING HEALTH, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES
Module code: HLAC700
Role: Teaching
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY: HISTORIES AND AFTERLIVES
Module code: HIST530
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- 'I ain' mad now and I know taint no use to lie': The Framing, Editing and Manipulation of Emotions in 1930s Ex-Slave Documents
- Mapping the Architecture of Slavery: Racial Capitalism and the Shaping of Space in Liverpool and Charleston
- Sexual violence in the slaveholding regimes of Louisiana and Texas: patterns of abuse in Black testimony
- The Problem of Anti-Slavery in the Age of Capital, c. 1830-1888
- ‘Where the Races meet’: racial framing through live display at the American West Coast World’s Fairs, 1894-1916