Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Whitt
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- sawhitt@uci.edu
- Affiliation
- University of California-Irvine
- Website URL
- https://sarahwhitt.weebly.com/
- Keywords
- Native American history, Settler Colonial studies, History of Medicine, Carceral studies, Progressive Era
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sarah Whitt (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is an assistant professor at UC Irvine where she researches, teaches, and writes about Indigenous histories. Her forthcoming book Bad Medicine examines Indigenous experiences of institutionalization in settler facilities in the Progressive Era United States. Her research has been supported by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Ford Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies, among other organizations. Her research has been published in the Western Historical Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, and American Indian Culture and Research Journal, as well as other venues.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- https://time.com/6335525/native-american-historical-moments-more-important-thanksgiving/
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples, Medicine, Race, Women
