Sarah Handley-Cousins
PhD
Fields
19th century United States History; Civil War and Reconstruction; Social and Cultural History; Gender and Sexuality; History of Medicine, Disability and Science; History of Discipline
Education
- PhD, University at Buffalo, 2016
- MSEd, Niagara University, 2010
- MA, University at Buffalo, 2009
- BA, Wells College, 2007
Courses Regularly Taught
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 387: Reacting to the Past
HIS 406: War and American Memory
HIS 412: Topics in Women's History
HIS 531: Civil War and Reconstruction
Selected Publications
Books
Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, University of Georgia Press, 2019
Spiritualism's Place: A Reflective History of Lily Dale, New York, co-authored with Averill Earls, Elizabeth Garner Masarik, and Marissa Rhodes, forthcoming from Three Hills Publishing, an imprint of Cornell University Press
The Nursing Clio Reader, co-edited with the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
"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)
"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)
“‘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
Selected Digital Publications
"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
Digital Projects
Founder & Producer, DIG: A History Podcast
Executive Editor, Nursing Clio
Awards and Fellowships
- 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