Alumni
Doctoral Alumni
Desiree Abu-Odeh (PhD, 2021)
Dissertation: Sexual Violence and Responses to It on American College Campuses, 1952–1980.
Currently a Global Trial Optimization Specialist for Merck & Company.
Ijeoma Eboh (PhD, 2019)
Dissertation: I Can’t Breathe: The Rise of Asthma in Black Urban America.
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellowships in Health, Humanities, and Society at the Reilly Center at Notre Dame.
Dave Johns (PhD, 2019)
Dissertation: Good Evidence, Bad Evidence: Science, Ethics, and the Politics of Making and Unmaking Public Health Policies.
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale School of Public Health.
Matt Kelly (PhD, 2017)
Dissertation: The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday Unorthodoxies in an Era of AIDS.
Currently enrolled at Johns Hopkins Medical School.
Kathleen Bachynski (PhD, 2016)
Dissertation: No Game for Boys to Play Debating the Safety of Youth Football, 1945-2015.
Currently an Assistant Professor of Public Health, Muhlenberg College.
Elisa M. González (PhD, 2016)
Dissertation: Food for Every Mouth: Nutrition, Agriculture, and Public Health in Puerto Rico, 1920s-1960s.
Currently an Associate at Community Science, Rockville, Maryland.
Laura Bothwell (PhD, 2014)
Dissertation: The Emergence of the Randomized Controlled Trial: Origins to 1980.
Currently an Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health.
Claire Edington (PhD, 2013)
Dissertation: Beyond the Asylum: Colonial Psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940.
Currently a Professor, University of California-San Diego.
Ava Alkon (PhD, 2012)
Dissertation: Late 20th-Century Consumer Advocacy, Pharmaceuticals, and Public Health: Public Citizen’s Health Research Group in Historical Perspective.
Currently working with the Access Campaign of Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Megan J. Wolfe (PhD, 2011)
Dissertation: The Money Value of Risk: Life Insurance and the Transformation of American Public Health, 1896-1930.
Currently the Policy Director, Beyond Plastics.
Marian Moser Jones (PhD, 2008)
Dissertation: Confronting Calamity: The American Red Cross and the Politics of Disaster Relief, 1881–1939.
Currently an Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Family Science, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, MD.
Nick Turse (PhD, 2008)
Dissertation: Kill Anything That Moves: United States War Crimes and Atrocities in Vietnam, 1965–1973.
Currently an Investigative Reporter and Managing Editor of The Nation Institute's TomDispatch.
Sarah Vogel (PhD, 2008)
Dissertation: The Politics of Plastics: The Economic, Political, and Scientific History of Bisphenol A.
Currently the Vice President, Health at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
James Keith Colgrove (PhD, 2004)
Dissertation: Vaccination Policy, Politics, and Law in the Twentieth Century.
Currently a Professor, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health.
Michael Yudell (PhD, 2001)
Dissertation: Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20th Century American Thought.
Currently the Vice Dean, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University.
Sheryl Ann McCurdy (PhD, 2000)
Dissertation: Transforming Associations: Fertility, Therapy, and the Manyema Diaspora in Urban Kigoma, Tanzania, c. 1850–1993.
Currently a Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
Amy Lauren Fairchild (PhD, 1997)
Dissertation: Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and Defense of the Nation, 1891 to 1930.
Currently a Professor of Public Health Ethics and Dean of the School of Public Health at Ohio State University.