About
Ph.D. candidate in history at Temple University, dissertation fellow at the Ohio State University’s Center for Historical Research. Education
Ph.D., American History, Temple University (2014)
B.A. with Honors, History, University of California, Berkeley (2006) Publications
Manuscripts in Progress
To Make the Wounded Whole: African American Responses to HIV/AIDS (book manuscript under advance contract with University of North Carolina Press for Justice, Power, and Politics series)
“‘A Disease, Not a Lifestyle’: Race and AIDS in the City of Brotherly Love,” chapter in
Rethinking Sexual Politics: Gay Rights and the Challenge of Urban Diversity in the Post-Civil Rights Era, ed. Jonathan Bell (forthcoming volume)
Journal Articles
“Teaching Digital Humanities with Oral History: The Staring Out to Sea Oral History Project and OHMS in the DH Classroom,”
Oral History Review (Summer/Fall 2016)
Book Reviews
Douglas A. Boyd and Mary A. Larson, eds.,
Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement (Palgrave MacMillian, 2014),
Oral History Review (forthcoming)
Dagmawi Woubshet,
The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS (Johns Hopkins, 2015),
National Political Science Review 18: 1(2017)
Larry Kramer, The American People, Vol.1 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015), Outhistory.org (April 2015)
Victoria Harden,
AIDS at 30: A History (Potomac Books, 2012),
Isis (December 2014)
Digital Publications
HIV/AIDS, Gay Communities, and the Struggle for Gay Rights (essay for
Anonymous No More: John Fryer, Psychiatry, and the Fight for LGBT Equality)
“Civil Rights (LGBT)”,
“AIDS and AIDS Activism”, and
“Legionnaires’ Disease” for
The Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, ed. Charlene Mires, Howard Gillette, and Randall Miller
Other Publications
“Silence = Death: It’s Time to Teach AIDS History,” Perspectives on History (October 2016)
“Taking It to the Streets: AIDS, Race, and Protest in Philadelphia,”
Pennsylvania Legacies (Spring 2016)
“The Impact of AIDS on the Gay Rights Movement” and “The Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)” in
The Encyclopedia of American Reform Movements, ed. John R. McKivigan and Heather L. Kaufman (Facts on File, 2011)
Blogging
“Love and Rage,” Nursing Clio (March 9, 2017)
NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality
OutHistory
VitaeMemberships
American Historical Association
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History of the AHA
Organization of American Historians
National Council on Public History
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
American Association for the History of Medicine
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
