Women's History - Independent Identities

Current MSI-LIS student Nestor Cook describes challenges in identifying women in historical records due to marital naming conventions.

Ambiguous Motivations of Family Planning: Dr. Jessie Laird Brodie and the Pathfinder Fund in Haiti, 1969-1971

Archives, Ambivalence, and Dr. Clifford's Conference Paper

Ava Purkiss explores researcher ambivalence and contradictions in archival sources through the Maurice Clifford Papers.

Revisiting the Mary Pauline Root papers

Caitlin "KT" Abadir-Mullally details the process of reparative archives and necessity revisiting the Mary Pauline Root Papers

Black Women Physicians Project: An Early Step in the Path Toward Reparative Archives

Jess Hutchison highlights her experience processing the Black Women Physicians Project and where the project fits into the history of reparative archives. 

Research Co-op Projects 2021: Dez Uwaomah

Dez Uwaomah discusses her starting research on Hartwig Kuhlenbeck, MD from the end of World War I in 1918 to his appointment as Research Professor in Neurobiology in 1963. intending to explore his life story, discoveries in neuroscience, and his professional network help us to understand his contributions to the history of neuroscience.

Research Co-op Projects 2021: Amanda Lyles

Amanda Lyles introduces her research on the journeys of Indigenous women in medicine as early representatives of their communities who historically attempted to improve conditions and eliminate disparities as a result of the government’s mission to fully assimilate Native Americans. As healers, representatives, and activists; Indigenous women in medicine demonstrated resistance that called for government responsibility and obligation by way of genuine intent for change during the Progressive era which ignited later movements. Their journeys set examples for how their communities are expected to survive a structure created to uphold inequality.

The True Path to Diversity

The murder of George Floyd turned the United States and the world into a state of chaos. He wasn’t the first person to lose his life to police brutality and unfortunately, probably won’t be the last. His death sparked many conversations about the racist violence and just plain racism that Black People endure while living in the nation. In the world of archives, conversations began about how to document the lives of Black People during this time and how to bring the hidden stories already acquired to the main dialogue of the archives' story. 

Woman's Medical College vs the 1918 Flu Pandemic

In the aftermath of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, health officials struggled on defining ways to better help individuals. Without immunization in sight for influenza, physicians needed to turn to different ways to better support their patients.