My M.A. thesis focused on reproductive healthcare on the second-largest federal healthcare system: the military health system. Through the lens of active-duty women and military wives, my thesis examines the historical changes in the military health system prompted by social, political, and medical changes and demonstrates how these changes were both detrimental and beneficial to military families.

Geographic Areas of Study: United States and Metropolitan Areas

Research Areas of Interest: History of science, technology, and society, history of population health, public health epistemology, youth health behaviors, health citizenship, boipolitics, biopower, and law enforcement public health.

How do you envision your research having a real-world impact that will promote health? The experiences and lives of the LGBTQ community are essential to understanding any history, and the medical experiences of LGBTQ individuals will only add to the growing queer narrative. I want to examine the connection between medicine, science, and the queer community. I want to understand how American medicine shaped and impacted queer lives, and the role science played in shaping gender and sexual identity. What are your future professional aspirations?

Dissertation Title: A Disease Itself: The Transformation of Pain After 1945 

Calling the Shots: A Social History of Vaccination in the US, 1968-2008 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60b551qq)

Teratology Transformed: Uncertainty, Knowledge, and Conflict over Environmental Etiologies of Birth Defects in Midcentury America (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jk4g5mm)

Revolutionary Medicine: Homeopathy and the Regulation of the Medical Profession in Mexico, 1853-1942 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ff3f2n3)

Dissertation: Pluralizing Postcoloniality from a Standpoint of Margins: A Historical Detour of Global Health and Imperial Regimes in Postwar Taiwan through the Traces of the Marginalized  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ng7t2bz 

Dissertation: Broken: A Disability History of Veterans' Healthcare https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7603x8fs

Dissertation: More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1996  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3492v6tx 

Dr. Antoine Johnson's research at UCSF focused on the history of the Black community's experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Bay Area. He was instrumental in helping found the REPAIR project and co-authored a syllabus, "A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine," highlihgting often overlooked social responses to health crises.

Cows, Cattle Owners, and the USDA: Brucellosis, Populations, and Public Health Policy in Twentieth Century United States (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1244313t)

Molecular Ferment: The Rise and Proliferation of Yeast Model Organism Research (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g51w0qk)

Heightened Expectations: The History of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n8021rj)

"Shangri-Laboratory": Place and Psychiatric Public Health in Hawaii, 1939-1963 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9w92r769)

Better Health is Purchasable: The History of Health Economies and Public Health, 1958-1975 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bd1r7gg()

Free and Community Clinics of the 1970s: The Origins of an Essential Component of California's Healthcare Safety Net

The Brain Electric: A History of Neurscientific Ideas About How We Change (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fw5n2rd)

Unearthing Botanical Medicaments: A History of Plant-Derived Therapies in Modern America (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s35m36k)

"Operating on Shadows": Evolving Perceptions of the Incidentally Discovered Adrenal Mass, 1982-2002

"Two Strikes--a Lady and Colored:" Gender, Race, and the Making of the Modern Medical Profession, 1864-1941 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jx8n0ck)