Participant Info
- First Name
- Kylie
- Last Name
- Smith
- Country
- United States
- State
- GA Georgia
- kylie.m.smith@emory.edu
- Affiliation
- Emory University
- Website URL
- http://nursing.emory.edu/faculty-and-research/directory/profile.html?id=3420
- Keywords
- nursing history, history of psychiatry, critical theory, social justice, social medicine, civil rights, racism, mental health, incarceration
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am Assistant Professor and the Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow for Nursing and the Humanities in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta. I am a historian, not a nurse, but I love working with nurses as colleagues and students. I teach history, ethics and social justice to nurses, and undertake research on the history of psychiatry.
I was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English and History and a PhD in History from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Before coming to Emory, I worked in the School of Nursing at the University of Wollongong where I researched mental health nursing history and taught reflective practice. I have also worked in multicultural HIV/AIDS health promotion in Sydney, Australia and studied scriptwriting at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
I am currently finishing a book called “Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing” which will be published by Rutgers University Press in 2019.
I have also started research on a new project called “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South”. This book will explore racial segregation in the large state asylums in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and will explore the impact of the Civil Rights Act on racism in psychiatry.
- Recent Publications
Lewenson, S., Macallister A. and Smith K.M. (Editors) Nursing History for Contemporary Role Development, Springer Publishing, New York, 2016.
Foth, T., Lange, J, and Smith, K.M. (2018). Nursing History as Philosophy: Notes towards a Critical History of Nursing, Nursing Philosophy. Early access online https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nup.12210
Smith, K. M. (2018 In press) “A Rather Straightforward Problem”: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in Alabama 1966-1972. Viral Networks Digital Humanities/History of Medicine Workshop. Virginia Tech, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Library of Medicine.
Smith, K. M. (2018) Different places, different ideas: Reimagining practice in American psychiatric nursing after WWII. Nursing History Review, Volume 26, 17-47 http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1062-8061.26.17
Smith, K. M. (2016) Recovery and reflection: The role of history in nursing education. Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation, Issue IV, Fall. Available online at https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/journalofhumanitiesinrehabilitation/2016/11/30/recovery-and-reflection-the-role-of-history-in-nursing-education/
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- drkyliesmith
- Country Focus
- USA
- Expertise by Geography
- Australia, United Kingdom, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Medicine, Race
