University at Buffalo (UB)
Connect the Personal and Historical with Nursing Clio
Join the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective to help us in our mission to bring nuanced, accessible histories of gender and health to the public.
Project description
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.
Project outcome
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.
Project details
| Length of commitment | About a semester; 3-5 months |
| Start time | Summer (May/June) |
| In-person, remote, or hybrid? | Remote Project |
| Level of collaboration | Individual student project |
| Benefits | Stipend |
| Who is eligible | All undergraduate students |
Core partners
Project mentor
Sarah Handley-Cousins
Assistant Teaching Professor
History
Phone: (716) 645-8426
Email: handley2@buffalo.edu
Start the project
- Email the project mentor using the contact information above to express your interest and get approval to work on the project. (Here are helpful tips on how to contact a project mentor.)
- After you receive approval from the mentor to start this project, click the button to start the digital badge. (Learn more about ELN's digital badge options.)
Preparation activities
Once you begin the digital badge series, you will have access to all the necessary activities and instructions. Your mentor has indicated they would like you to also complete the specific preparation activities below. Please reference this when you get to Step 2 of the Preparation Phase.
- 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/
Keywords
History, public health, feminism, gender, editing, digital projects, public history, English, Global Gender Studies,