Connect the Personal and Historical with Nursing Clio

Nursing Clio provides a digital platform for accessible, compelling essays on the histories of gender, science, and medicine. We draw connections between current events and the long histories of health, medicine, and the gendered body, and foster collaborative, imaginative, and personal work on these histories. Our writers include academic and public historians, sociologists, healthcare professionals, activists, creative writers, students, and the members of the general public. Nursing Clio has published over 1,686 essays from 521 writers, and has been cited in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Vogue, The Lancet, Smithsonian Magazine, CNN and PBS, among other outlets. Nursing Clio represents the vanguard of current scholarship on the history of reproductive health in the United States, and we are actively expanding our scope in a more global direction. 

Students will work remotely to help us increase the discoverability of our large back catalog of essays by implementing a system of keyword tags. Learning outcomes will include the development of Wordpress skills, introduction to the principles of public scholarship and digital history, the ability to read and evaluate an essay to determine key themes, and experience working closely with a diverse team.

Interested students may also be invited to try their hand at the other aspects of managing a digital history project according to their interest, such as writing an essay, assisting with editing, laying out an essay in Wordpress, or using social media to market the project. 

• Nursing Clio
  

• Meet with Dr. Handley-Cousins
  
  
•  Read the following selected essays from Nursing Clio to become familiar with the project: 
  •  T.J. Tallie, “Asymptomatic Lethality: Cooper, COVID-19, and the Potential for Black Death,” June 8, 2020: https://nursingclio.org/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-lethality-cooper-covid-19-and-the-potential-for-black-death/
  • Lance C. Turner, “Lizards and the Idea of Mexico,” April 12, 2018: https://nursingclio.org/2018/04/12/lizards-and-the-idea-of-mexico/
  • Shannon Withycombe, My Story of 20 Weeks: https://nursingclio.org/2017/10/09/my-story-of-20-weeks/
  • Udodiri Okwandu, "Contextualizing the 2022 Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Report," https://nursingclio.org/2023/03/15/if-they-were-white-and-insured-would-they-have-died-contextualizing-the-2022-texas-maternal-mortality-and-morbidity-report/
  • Sarah Handley-Cousins, "On Football, Trauma, and War" https://nursingclio.org/2023/01/19/on-football-war-and-trauma/

History, public health, feminism, gender, editing, digital projects, public history, English, Global Gender Studies,