Recent Activities

Lector: Academic/Professional Writing (ENGL 13000)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Winter 2010.

Presented the paper, "'Crazy, bedeviled, bewitched or something': Concepts of Insanity in the United States, 1800-1843," at the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 2009.

Presented the paper, "'Chimerical Dogmas': Honor and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century American Law," at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, November 2009.

Presented the paper, "'Unnatural Murder' in the Early Republic: Madness, Morality, and Family" at the Social History Workshop at the University of Chicago, October 2009.

Presented the paper, "Temporary Insanity and the Law: Evidentiary Limits in 19th-Century Psychiatry," at "Origins: The Historical Sciences in the Age of Darwin," The Chicago Max-Planck Symposium at the University of Chicago, June 2009.