Participant Info
- First Name
- Elizabeth Kelly
- Last Name
- Gray
- Country
- United States
- State
- MD Maryland
- egray@towson.edu
- Affiliation
- Towson University
- Website URL
- https://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/history/facultystaff/egray.html
- Keywords
- 19th-century America; history of American drug use, dependency, and addiction
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
My book Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 will be published by Oxford University Press in December 2022.
I study American history in an international context in the early national and antebellum eras, focusing on social and cultural history.
- Recent Publications
Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2022)
“Was Edgar Allan Poe a Habitual Opium User?” Commonplace: the journal of early American life (February 2022)
“The World by Gaslight: Urban-gothic Literature and Moral Reform in New York City, 1845–1860,” American Nineteenth-Century History, 10, no. 2 (June 2009)
“‘Whisper to him the Word ‘India’: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830–1860,” The Journal of the Early Republic 28 (Fall 2008)
“The Trade-Off: Chinese Opium Traders and Antebellum Reform in the United States, 1815–1860,” in Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c. 1500–c. 1930, James H. Mills and Patricia Barton, eds. (Palgrave, 2007)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @IrnaPhillips
- Country Focus
- U.S.A.
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Diplomacy
