I have a chapter in Mujeres y Psicodélicos: Descubriendo las voces invisibles, edited by Erika Dyck et al. (Mexico City: Lunaria/Instituto Chacruna, 2022). In it, I examine the life of Marlene Dobkin de Rios, a transcultural psychotherapist and medical anthropologist from New York who spent much of her life working and living with curanderos and ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon. I unpack how Dobkin de Rios’ positionality as one of the first women and medical anthropologists to consider ayahuasca’s embeddedness amidst practices of urban curanderismo beginning in the late 1960s. I demonstrate how her situatedness, including her intimate relationships, enabled and complicated the trajectory of her work.

This volume will be published in English in 2023.

With Dr. David Wright (McGill University), I examined the transnational migration of physicians and allied healthcare practitioners to Newfoundland, an Atlantic Canadian province, following the Second World War. Our work demonstrated how the province’s isolating and isolated geography constrained and provided opportunities for physicians during the mid-twentieth century, especially those from the British Commonwealth and, increasingly, post-colonial nations. To uncover this story, we drew from hundreds of entries in the Canadian Medical Directory and American Medical Directory, along with newspapers, interviews and oral histories, and government health reports. You can read our article in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History here.

I have penned book reviews for Isis, the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, and the Canadian Historical Review. Please contact me if you’d like access.