Hi! My name is Jherron Sutton and I am a rising third year at Grinnell College. I am a Sociology major and plan to teach after graduation before beginning a career in educational law and policy. I enjoy spending time with my family and trying new foods. This upcoming fall I will be studying abroad… Read more Black Women and Contraception
Vincent Benlloch is a second-year Philosophy major whose main hobbies include misunderstanding people, being pretentious, and engaging in insufferable debates about epistemology. The history of medicine and the history of race in the U.S. are deeply interwoven. Both medical science and the conception of hierarchical categories of race are intrinsically linked, to the point of… Read more Born Dead: The Culture of Slavery in American Medicine, Then and Now.
Alexus Williams is a junior at Grinnell College majoring in English. She enjoys dance, film and fiction writing. Black physicians have been practicing in the U.S. since 1850 when slavery was legal in the South. Up to nine doctors were recorded and known to be practicing that year in a few Northern states. This essay… Read more Black Physicians in the South
Monica Knaack is a second-year Biology major at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. Outside of her academics, she enjoys playing volleyball, hiking, and snuggling with her black lab puppy, Ella. In an age when a rapidly growing human population is no longer a sign of prosperity, but rather represents a growing strain on limited resources,… Read more Survival of the Fittest (Or the Richest)
Marisa Leib-Neri is a second year Independent major in Disability Studies. She is fascinated by different cultural conceptions of disability and how disability, health, medicine, and wellness are historically intertwined. Her hobbies include tennis, violin, and re-watching every season of Parks and Recreation. The modern view of reality is based in straight lines and angles.… Read more “Everything in Nature goes in curves and circles”: Native American Concepts of Disability
Meredith Carroll is a rising senior at Grinnell College, where she studies history, plays flute, and braves the Iowa climate as a campus tour guide. Her interests include the history of the popularization of science and its intersections with the history of the book. She can regularly be found ensconced in Grinnell’s Burling Library, with… Read more “Frailty, Danger, and Isolation”: Turn-of-the Century America and the Pathologization of Old Age
Ellen Schneider is a student at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA. She is studying history and education, and hopes to become a middle school social studies teacher. In her free time, Ellen can usually be found going to estate sales, thinking about architecture, and asking people on the street if she can pet their dogs.… Read more Let Your Freak Flag Fly: Constructing Health and Reinforcing American Exceptionalism through the Display of Othered Bodies
