Research

My research explores the history of social welfare and social movements in the twentieth-century U.S.

I am currently working on my book,  Poor Health: The Story of Chicago’s Only Public Hospital, with the support of an ACLS Fellowship (2024-2025). Through the lens of Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, Poor Health charts the enduring importance of the local public hospital and the sustained advocacy for just public sector health care over the course of the twentieth century. The dissertation on which the book manuscript is based received an Honorable Mention for the Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation Completed in 2020 from the Urban History Association.

My writing has appeared in the Journal of Policy History, Dissent: A magazine of politics and culture, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and various edited collections.

I received my Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University in 2020. I also hold a M.A. in Historical Studies from University of Maryland Baltimore County and a B.A. in English and Latin American & Caribbean Studies from McGill University.

My research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Religion and Ethics from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation National Fellowship, the Rutgers/New Jersey Council for the Humanities Public Humanities Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in History Education at the Museum of the City of New York, and the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis Seminar in Medical Humanities Graduate Fellowship.

And, I am grateful to have received research grants from the American Historical Association, the University of Illinois at Chicago Library Special Collections, the Illinois State Historical Society and Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, the Walter P. Reuther Library, the Rutgers University School of Graduate Studies, and the Rutgers University Department of History.