I am a historian of science and medicine, with a particular interest in the historical contexts of racial and reproductive health inequities in the United States. My first book, Monstrous Births: Race, Gender, and Defective Reproduction in U.S. Medical Science, 1830-1930 is under contract with Columbia University Press for the Series in Race, Inequality, and Health. My writing has appeared in academic journals including 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 an Assistant Professor in 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 the U.S. history of reproductive healthcare; citizenship and public health; racial inequities and concepts of biological race in medical science; and health and incarceration.