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CONFERENCES

Alcohol and Drugs History Society, 2016  

Presented “‘A hard lesson for temperance men’: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Turn to Opiates” 

 

Alcohol and Drugs History Society, 2015 

Presented “Sympathy and Scorn: The Role of Class in Shaping Antebellum American Attitudes toward Opiate Dependency” 

 

Organization of American Historians, 2015 

Presented “America Discovers Dependency: Reports on Domestic Drug Addiction in the Nineteenth Century” 

 

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2014 

Participated in a roundtable on “Drugs, Alcohol, and Gendered and Racial Experiences of Addiction” 

 

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2010 

Presented “Habitual Opium Use and Secrecy in Early-Republic America” 

 

History of Women’s Health Conference, Pennsylvania Hospital, 2010 

Presented “American Women and Opiate Addiction, 1776–1914” 

MEDIA FELLOWSHIPS

Participant, “How Profits from Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston” and “As the Opium Trade Boomed in the 1800s, Boston Doctors Raised Addiction Concerns,” WBUR, Summer 2017. Interviewed for the two-part story. 

 

Historian, “America: Facts vs. Fiction,” American Heroes Channel, March 2017 Appeared in the documentary series’ episode titled “Bad Medicine,” which focused on bad medical practices in America’s past. 

 

C-SPAN 3, “Lectures in History: Drug Addiction in 19th-Century America,” American History TV, 2015 

C-SPAN recorded and broadcast one session of my upper-level course “Drug Use and Drug Policy in America, 1492–1990” 

 

C-SPAN 3, “Addiction in Early America,” American History TV, 2014 

Participated in a roundtable on “Drugs, Alcohol, and Gendered and Racial Experiences of Addiction” at the conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. C-SPAN recorded and broadcast the session. 

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