My department is hiring in African history and the United States since 1865! Both positions are tenure-track, and both hires will be made at the assistant level. I'm not on either search committee (sabbatical, babyyyyy), but I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have. 🗃️

CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 @annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!

⭐ Our Curator of Art Collections has contributed three new biographies on women artists for this month's #ODNB update. Read her Introduction and new entries in the link below! 👇 #ODNB #WomenInArt

Please join us on September 30 for a *fascinating* talk from historian / musicologist Bronwen McVeigh! (Also a Medical Humanities master's grad from @urochestersmd.bsky.social !) She'll be discussing the "toothache blues" and different media (including the musical) for public health messaging. 🦷🎶🦷

Forthcoming events on objects in the history of healthcare #HistMed: 1) 'Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900' @unibirmingham.bsky.social (5 Dec, free, online. CFP deadline 6 Oct. Organised by @annafranjam.bsky.social & @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social): www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

Here's the teaser for Season 2 of "In the Same Vein" - the health humanities and bioethics podcast that I co-host with students. If this sounds like it'll be of interest to you (or your students), make sure that you follow / subscribe so that you don't miss any eps! open.spotify.com/episode/15H3...

My book-in-progress has a chapter that deals, in part, with eugenic euthanasia and the quest to relieve "social suffering." But until it's out, might I recommend an oldie but a goodie? (by one of my dissertation committee members)

Last week I got to do a fun & cool thing and sign my books that are being sold at the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social gift shop at the Royal College of Surgeons!

Please join us on September 30 for a *fascinating* talk from historian / musicologist Bronwen McVeigh! (Also a Medical Humanities master's grad from @urochestersmd.bsky.social !) She'll be discussing the "toothache blues" and different media (including the musical) for public health messaging. 🦷🎶🦷

This was a real treat—great turnout and fantastic audience questions in a gorgeous setting (on a glorious early-fall day in Rochester). Many thanks to @slobogin.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who attended in person and on Zoom.

Such kind words for my article from none other than the brilliant @beapichel.bsky.social - whose phenomenal work I've been reading and citing obsessively for years now!

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

This looks so great!!! I love the prompt to bring in a *single* object for the talks. Deadline: October 6

SO excited for our next event with the Nat'l Collab on Humanities & Ethics in Dentistry! @urochestersmd.bsky.social 's own Bronwen McVeigh will give a talk titled "Rockefellers, Root Canals, and 'Race Records': The Toothache Blues and the Story of Dentistry Reform in Interwar Harlem" Sept 30!

Piglet by Lottie Hazell! 🍔

Do you have a work in progress about the history of health and the urban environment? Want constructively critical feedback from a varied group of historically oriented scholars? Consider putting in a proposal to present in the CHSTM working group docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

📣Annual Book Development Prize Competition 📣 Submissions are now invited for the 2026 Award, which funds authors to turn a proposal into a book in the Social Histories of Medicine series, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until 16 Jan 2026. #histmed

We are thrilled to have one of our esteemed contributors @barronlerner.bsky.social write this fantastic essay about our book "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" for the @hastingscenter.bsky.social bioethics forum. Read it here www.thehastingscenter.org/lets-not-era...

Check out this video blog about my book _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_! (Sneaky discount code at the bottom of the page, too!) boydellandbrewer.com/blog/early-m...

I believe that a good title is half the battle; consider the battle half won already, @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.edu/bear-with-me

GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

I so appreciate the shoutout in the Visual & Material Lab newsletter! @durhamimh.bsky.social

Our first Corner Society lecture is taking place on Wednesday, September 10, at 5:30 pm at the Rochester Academy of Medicine! @renfro.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled "Ryan White, Hemophilia, and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic" You can register here: www.raom.org/event-6257176

Thrilled to be in such great company. What a line-up!

The new Corner Society schedule is live! I'm so pleased to be able to welcome exciting history of medicine scholars to Rochester during this academic year. Even if you're not in Rochester, each of these lectures will be available via Zoom (with free registration).

My department @utexasrtf.bsky.social is hiring a TT faculty member in media studies. We are looking for faculty who conduct broad-based research in the following areas: media history and industries associated with film, television, and/or digital media. More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261

Examining the responsibilities of #historians when documenting the past, DO LESS HARM edited by @cethompson.bsky.social & @drkyliesmith.bsky.social is out now from @hopkinspress.bsky.social! Buy from your bookshop anywhere in Europe. DM @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social for media copies.

How nice to see that an edited collection that I contributed a wee chapter to is now out. Let me know if you want a copy of my chapter on humour and the British women's liberation movement! www.routledge.com/Humour-in-Ti...

Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities' Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary. thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...

Having a real case of the sads about Ceddy. Anyways, did a little stroll down memory lane tonight. Here’s some of the greatest hits. And yes, I was at all of these games.

Do you work on the history of dentistry? 🦷 The visual culture of oral health? 🦷 Representations of teeth in literature? 🦷 Consider submitting to our special issue on the intersection of humanities and ethics in dentistry! Let me know if you have any Qs - articles of up to 3,000 words due on Nov 1

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

So sad to see good academic publishers like JHUP surrender books to an environmentally destructive industry, which they surely know is diametrically opposed to the very meaning of knowledge and education www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

“…she had been told the museum was considering removing her painting depicting a transgender Statue of Liberty to avoid provoking President Trump.”

Tomorrow!

Users shouldn’t have to play Russian roulette with everyday products. This administration has decided that anyone who buys a harmful, defective, ineffective or overpriced product is a sucker, nothing more and nothing less.

As a historian of injuries and product safety, this one feels personal. The CPSC can’t do its job without independent commissioners. Let’s review some of the cases that led to the establishment of the agency in the first place:

Do you work on the history of dentistry? 🦷 The visual culture of oral health? 🦷 Representations of teeth in literature? 🦷 Consider submitting to our special issue on the intersection of humanities and ethics in dentistry! Let me know if you have any Qs - articles of up to 3,000 words due on Nov 1

ICYMI Early Career Paper Prize 2026! It entails two good things in one: publication in the journal 2026 & £1000 award. Another one which the journal excels in: in-depth peer-reviews; every submission gets reviewed by members of editorial board, plus externals.

Any historians know of any secondary literature that deals with French accident/injury insurance in the early 20th century? I'm interested in marketing, whether the state tried to regulate the policies being sold, etc. I've asked this question twice on H-France & ... radio silence.

📢Come and work at the Hunterian Museum 📢 RCS England Museums is seeking a dynamic, highly motivated and empathetic individual to develop, deliver and promote inspiring public and professional Museum engagement programmes, on site and online. 👇👇👇 hunterianmuseum.org/news/vacancy...

I'll be giving an online book launch talk for the military medicine group Friends of Millbank on July 25! 1:30 pm EST; 5:30 pm BST. You can register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

I'll be giving an online book launch talk for the military medicine group Friends of Millbank on July 25! 1:30 pm EST; 5:30 pm BST. You can register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's been two weeks since my book was published, and it has been SO nice seeing folks with their copies, or telling me that they've looked at sections or images online. Reminder that _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_ is available open access! You can read it here: library.oapen.org/viewer/web/v...

Calling video game industry folks! You know the Strong Museum of Play, right? The museum that understands us & is documenting OUR history? Federal budget shenanigans have them in a surprise $500K hole. If you're able to support them, now's the time. Here's the link: www.museumofplay.org/support/

Alt text: You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale Date: July 8-11, 2025 Location: Bookshop.org Enjoy free shipping and the knowledge that your money will go toward supporting independent bookstores, not billionaires