About Me

I am a historian of slavery, medicine, and racism, and currently, I am a Visiting Junior Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University's Center for Humanities & Information. Additionally, this academic year, I am a Visiting Fellow in the University of Pennsylvania’s new study “Penn Medicine and the Afterlives of Slavery.” My work focuses on the role Atlantic slavery and scientific racism played in shaping the curriculum of medical schools in the past and present. Previously, my research has been published in popular and academic venues, such as The Washington Post, The Journal of Southern History, and The Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences. In addition to my already published works, I am writing a monograph on the history of racial science and slavery in American Medical Schools, which is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. You can find me on twitter @antiquatedmeds, and you can find my full cv here.