- Ph.D. in History, SUNY-Stony Brook, August 2006.
Advisor: Nancy Tomes
The Universal Mind Assumption: Harlem and the Development of a New Racial Formation in American Psychiatry, 1938-1968, Ph.D. dissertation,
- Master of Arts in History, SUNY-Stony Brook, 1999.
- Bachelor of Arts, Eastern Connecticut State University, 1997 (University Honors Thesis: A Benevolent Enterprise: The Development of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Public Welfare in Connecticut, 1822-1870 ).
- Instructor, Mississippi State, 2006-
- Adjunct Instructor, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2003-06
- Learning Communities Teaching Fellow, SUNY-Stony Brook, 2001-02 and 2005-06
" A Fine New Child: the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic and Harlem s African American Communities, 1946-1958, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 64 (forthcoming 2009)
- Conference Pieces:
"Engineering the Black Epileptic: Psychiatry and the Importance of Race and Gender in the Construction of Epilepsy as Disease, 1932-1941, American Association for the History of Medicine, May 1999, New Brunswick, New Jersey
"Nuisance and Necessity: Public Health, the Rural Cemetery Movement, and Potter s Field, 1823-52, Conference on New York State History, June 1999, Oneonta, New York
"The Universal Mind Assumption: The Development of a New Racial Formation in Psychiatry, 1946-1958, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"From Another Race : Comic Books, Juvenile Delinquency, and Color-Blind Psychiatry, 1946-1957, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2006, Washington, D. C.
"Reconsidering Scientific Racism: Dr. Lauretta Bender, Bellevue Hospital, and Race in American Psychiatry, 1936-9, Southern History of Science and Technology Conference, April 2007, Mississippi State University
"'The Quiet Ones : New York Psychiatrists and the Image of Harlem s Juvenile Delinquents on the Silver Screen, 1943-1950, American Association for the History of Medicine, April 2008, Rochester, New York
- University Honor s Program Director s Award for Outstanding Leadership, Eastern Connecticut State University, spring 1997
- University History Department writing award, Eastern Connecticut State University, spring 1996
- David M. Roth History Award for academic achievement, Eastern Connecticut State University, spring 1996
- Honor s Scholarship, Eastern Connecticut State University, fall 1995-spring 1997
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