I am a historian of U.S. medicine, science, and health. My first book, Monstrous Conceptions: A History of Race, Disability, and Reproductive Medicine in the United States (Columbia University Press, 2026), explores the history of “monstrous birth” as a category in modern medical science, revealing how historical practices produced enduring ideas about human difference.

I am currently the James Wade Rockwell Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Medicine at UTMB (Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities). Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows and taught as a lecturer at Yale University (History Department/School of Medicine). I received my PhD in history of science from Harvard University.