Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine
Created by Dr. Antoine Johnson, Dr. Ayah Nuriddin, and Dr. Elise A. Mitchell.
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Syllabus: A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine – AAIHS
Dr. Antoine Johnson earned his Ph.D. in the History of Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. His dissertation, “More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1996,” explored ways in which Black grassroots organizers confronted HIV/AIDS and structural-medical racism that exposed their communities to infection. His research interests include the AIDS epidemic, anti-Black racism in medicine, twentieth-century American History, and hip-hop culture.
Dr. Ayah Nuriddin is Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine with a secondary appointment in the Program on Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M). She is a historian of medicine and biology with particular interests in the histories of eugenics, racial science, scientific racism, reproduction, and human subjects research.
Dr. Elise A. Mitchell is a historian of the early modern Black Atlantic. She is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Princeton University. Later in 2024, she will begin as Assistant Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Broadly, her work examines the social and political histories of embodiment, healing, disease, race, and gender in the early modern Atlantic World, with a focus on the Caribbean region. She is also an editor and founding board member of the online magazine, Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies.