Writing

“Policing Venereal Disease at Fort Huachuca, 1941-1945” 

Journal of Military History, vol. 88, no. 2, April 2024

Winner of 2025 Society for History in the Federal Government Prize for Article or Essay

Winner of 2025 Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize, Coordinating Council for Women in History

“The Fight for Trans Inclusion in the Military Goes Back Decades”

Time (Made by History), February 21, 2025

“Congress Is Taking a Good First Step To Address the Mistreatment of LGBT Veterans”

Washington Post (Made by History), March 14, 2022

“The Forgotten Women of the Antibiotics Race”

Lady Science, July 22, 2021

“Racism Has Long Undermined Military Cohesion, Just as Gen. Milley Testified”

Washington Post (Made by History), June 29, 2021

“It Just Wasn’t a Good Fit”

Nursing Clio, November 12, 2020

“Psychiatry and Homosexuality Draft Exemptions during the Vietnam War”

Nursing Clio, August 4, 2020

Reviews

Review of Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America by Susan L. Carruthers and Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior, edited by Beth Bailey, Alesha E. Doan, Shannon Portillo, and Kara Dixon Vuic

War in History, November 2023

Race and Early American Medical Schools: Review of Christopher D.E. Willoughby’s Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

Nursing Clio, February 14, 2023

Review of To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS by Dan Royles

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, October 2022

Review of An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War by Amanda Boczar

Journal of Military History, July 2022

Review of Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 by Khary Oronde Polk

Journal of American History, September 2021

“Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry”

Black Perspectives, September 8, 2020

“Black Women in the Army during World War II” 

Black Perspectives, October 17, 2018