Jacqueline D. Antonovich 
Assistant Professor of History
Director, Shankweiler Scholars Medical Humanities Program
Ettinger 300D
484-664-3323
Education :
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., University of Wyoming
B.A., Colorado Mesa University
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.
My recent publications include "White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America," which received Honorable Mention at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for "Best Article in the Field of The History of Women, Gender, and/or Sexuality," and "Feminist Doctors and Medicine Women: The Lady Physician in the American Western," in Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama." Currently, I'm working on a book with Rutgers University Press, focusing on the history of women physicians and their political activism in the early twentieth century. I'm also the creator and executive editor emerita of Nursing Clio, an online journal connecting historical scholarship to present-day issues of gender, health, and medicine. My research and teaching have been featured in The Washington Post, BBC, Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR, and the podcast Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.
Courses Taught:
History of Public Health in America
The Birds & the Bees: History of Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth in America
Snake Oil, Quacks, & Self Help: The History of Alternative Medicine in the United States
Disability History in the United States
History of Epidemics
Do No Harm? The History of Health and Medicine in the U.S.
Civil War & Reconstruction
The American West
Gender and Jim Crow
CUE: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the History of American Medicine
