Katie Brian, PhD
Senior Instructor
Office
Location
Old Main 330J
Hours
Not teaching for the department AY 2023-24.
About
Education
Ph.D. American Studies, George Washington University
Kathleen Brian is a cultural historian whose primary interests are in histories of science, medicine, and public health in the United States and its imperial outposts, as well as critical race and disability theory. Both her research and teaching are animated by inquiry into epistemology; the transmutation of knowledge as it circulates between popular, professional, and official spaces; and the role that emotion plays in both processes. Her recent work appears in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and her co-edited collection, Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Masculinity and Disability (2017), is available from Oxford University Press. She is also at work on a book project that rethinks the origins and agendas of Anglophone eugenics through the history of suicide.