Ph.D., Rutgers University
Doctor of Philosophy in History, 2001
Thesis: “Action Psychologique: French Psychiatry in Colonial North Africa, 1900-1962”
(Winner, Forum for the History of the Human Sciences Biannual Dissertation Prize, 2002)

M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
Master of Arts in History, 1996
Thesis: “Forgetting Freud: Language, Psychoanalysis, and the Body in France, 1913-1932”

B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
Bachelor of Arts in History, 1992

Publications

"Taking Science to the Colonies: Psychiatric Innovation in France and North Africa," in Psychiatry and Empire, ed. by Megan Vaughan and Sloan Mahone (London: Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming).

“Race and the Hazards of Advocacy: Psychiatry, Colonialism, and Segregation,” in The Mental Health Power and the Liberal State, ed. by Leonard V. Kaplan and Michael Smith (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming).

“Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French Empires, 1800-1962,” Journal of Social History 35 (2001): 295-326.

“Pierre Janet and the Psychoanalytic Crisis in France, 1913-1915,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 24 (1997): 168-177.

Mariano Plotkin, ed., Argentina on the Couch: Psychiatry, State, and Society, 1880 to the Present (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003). Reviewed for Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming: 2004).

Eric J. Engstrom, Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003). Reviewed for Choice (forthcoming: 2004).

David Macey, Frantz Fanon: A Biography (New York: Picador, 2000). Reviewed for Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming).

Current Position

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor, Dept. of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Secondary Appointments: Assistant Professor, African Studies Program and Program in Science and Technology Studies