• PhD, University at Buffalo, 2016
• MSEd, Niagara University, 2010
• MA, University at Buffalo, 2009
• BA, Wells College, 2007

HIS 144: Health, Medicine and Society

HIS 209: Civil War and Reconstruction

HIS 272: Bodies at War 

HIS 301: Historical Writing

HIS 357: US Disability History 

HIS 406: War and American Memory 

HIS 531: Civil War and Reconstruction 

Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, University of Georgia Press, 2019

 “‘Wrestling at the Gates of Death:’ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and Nonvisible Disability in the Post Civil War North,” The Journal of the Civil War Era, June 2016

"Best Men, Broken Men: Gender, Disability and American Veterans," in Kara Dixon Vuic, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2017) 

"Speaking for Themselves: Disability in Civil War Medical Photography," in Brian Jordan and Evan Rothera, eds., The War Went On: New Perspectives on Civil War Veteranhood (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020) 

"No, Mr. President, Traumatic Brain Injuries Are Not 'Just Headaches,'" Made by History, The Washington Post

"Work Requirements for Medicaid hurt people with 'invisible' disabilities," Made by History, The Washington Post

“Ghosts Are Scary, Disabled People Are Not: The Troubling Rise of the Haunted Asylum,” Nursing Clio

“Come to the Dark Side: Disability as ‘Dark’ Civil War History,” Nursing Clio

“PTSD and the Civil War,” Disunion, The New York Times 

“The Wounded Lion of Union,” Disunion, The New York Times 

Founder & Producer, DIG: A History Podcast 

Editor, Nursing Clio

• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2021
• Outstanding Book Award for Bodies in Blue, Disability History Association, 2020
• Honorable Mention, Best Article/Book Chapter Prize, Disability History Association, 2017
• AASLH Good History Award for DIG: A History Podcast, 2017
• New York Humanities Public Humanities Fellow, 2015-2016