Articles and Book Chapters
“The “Practitioner of Physick and Surgery” and the Enslaved “Doctor”: Medicine, Slavery, Race, and Patriarchy in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica,” The Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (Forthcoming).
“Across the Atlantic: Traversing the Morbid Geographies of Enslavement and Public Health in the French Atlantic,” Atlantic Studies (February 2024): 90-114.
“Everyday Histories of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Newspapers,” Early Modern Medicine: An Introduction to Source Analysis, ed. Olivia Weisser (Routledge, 2024).
“Black and African American,” in “Critical Engagements: What’s in a Name?,” Journal of the Early Republic 43, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 85-100.
““They had no choice but to obey”: On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive” in “Dilemmas of Archival Objectivity,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 53, no. 1 (2023): 82–85.
“Morbid Crossings: Surviving Smallpox, Maritime Quarantine, and the Gendered Geography of the Early Eighteenth-Century Intra-Caribbean Slave Trade,” The William and Mary Quarterly 79, no. 2 (2022): 177-210.
*Winner of the 2023 WMQ New Voices Prize
“Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade,” Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery eds. Sean Morey Smith and Christopher. D. E. Willoughby (LSU Press, 2021)
Essays
“How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.” Slate (September 4, 2023).
*On Bunk History’s “Best History Writing of 2023” list
“Public Healing and the Black Radical Tradition in the Americas,” The Funambulist (March 2023).
“Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Legacies of Distrust,” Black Perspectives (August 3, 2022)
““If bitterness were a whetstone”: On Grief, History, and COVID-19,” Black Perspectives (April 23, 2020)
“The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease,” The Atlantic: Ideas (March 11, 2020)
CO-AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS
“Apologies Alone Won’t Solve Structural Racism: We Need a Reckoning with the Racist Roots of U.S. Medicine,” Medical Humanities: Blog (March 5, 2021)
“West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell,” The Royal Society Blog (October 20, 2020)
“Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine,” Black Perspectives (August 12, 2020)