Participant Info
- First Name
- Cheyenne
- Last Name
- Pettit
- Country
- United States
- State
- MI Michigan
- Ckpett@umich.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Michigan
- Website URL
- https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/graduate-students/cheyenne-pettit.html
- Keywords
- History of Medicine, Syphilis, Canada, British Empire, First World War
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a first generation student working on a PhD at the University of Michigan. I study the history of medicine in an imperial and military context. I am interested in the role of Dominions in the First World War and specifically how Canada as a ‘nation’ emerged from this conflict. My primary work is on syphilis and VD in WWI. I study the experimental methods designed during the war to treat the disease as well as the conflicts of expertise that arose between general practitioners and syphilologists. I am interested in the ways that hospitals set up and administered through the Canadian Army Medical Corp played a role in separating the British identity from the Canadian identity in the midst of wartime treatment and care regiments.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- twitter.com/CKaceyPettit
- Country Focus
- Canada
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Medicine, Military, Science, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, World War I
