Areas of Research Interest:
- Civil War and American Medicine
- Race and Medicine
- Southern Diseases
- History of the body
- War and Medicine
- Infectious diseases in the nineteenth century particularly cholera, smallpox, gangrene, erysipelas, pyemia
- Experimental method in medicine
- Medical case reporting and knowledge production in nineteenth and twentieth century medicine
- Vaccination
- Identity in American medicine
- Medical Photography
- Histories of Scientific Observation
General Teaching Interests:
- History of Medicine and Science
- War, Society and Medicine
- History of public health in the U.S. and Canada
- The 1850s: The Union in Peril
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Jacksonian America
- The United States from Colonization to 1877
- Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1865
- Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South
- The Atlantic slave trade and black enslavement in America
- The American Presidency
Advanced Teaching Interests:
- Comparative medical history, particularly, American, French and German medicine and medical cultures in the nineteenth-century
- The development of medical technology and the laboratory in nineteenth and twentieth century medicine
- Southern diseases and southern/regional “distinctiveness” in American medicine
- Bio-medical ethics
- Medical Photography/Medical Technology as an investigative resource
- Histories of Scientific Observation and Technology