PhD Candidate
North America
Lucy is a PhD student in the History department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on slavery and medicine in the antebellum United States. She is particulalry interested in psychiatry and the experiences of enslaved people working as medical assistants or caregivers and in institutions. Her research tries to understand the ways that antebellum medicine, which so often supported the slave system through its intellectual culture and use of Black bodies, created ideological ripples or gaps in that system through its reliance on specialized enslaved caregivers and in the experience of treating or describing mental illness.
Research Interests
- North America: Nineteenth-century United States
- Medicine
- Slavery and Race (US)
- Disability
- Psychiatry
Education
BA in History with Highest Honors, PBK, the College of William & Mary (2023)
