Jamie Marsella is a historian of medicine and a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Her current project examines the role of domestic science, religion, and eugenics in Progressive Era public health and child welfare. Work stemming from her research has been published in academic and public-facing publications, including the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Teen Vogue, Nursing Clio, and The American Historian. Jamie holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. Her research has been supported by fellowships from various institutions, including the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society, the Charles Warren Center for American Studies, the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
