Jacqueline Antonovich
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
- M.A., University of Wyoming
- B.A., Colorado Mesa University
Teaching Interests
I am a historian of health and medicine in the United States, with particular interests in how race, gender, and politics shape the medical field and access to health care. My teaching interests include histories of public health, alternative medicine, disability, reproduction and childbirth and epidemics. I also focus on the history of the American West, nineteenth-century America and the Gilded and Progressive Eras.
Research and Scholarship
My research focuses on the history of medicine, gender, and politics in the United States. My recent publications include, “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America,” and The Nursing Clio Reader. My next book, Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine will be available in June 2027 with Rutgers University Press. I’m also the creator and executive editor emerita of Nursing Clio, an online journal that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender, health, and medicine. My research and teaching have been featured in The Washington Post, BBC, Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.
- American Civil War & Reconstruction
- FYS:Bad Boys & Rebel Girls
- History of Alternative Medicine in the United States
- 2024 Robert C. Williams Faculty Award for Research
- Faculty Rising Scholar Award, 2022