Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessica
- Last Name
- Hauger
- Country
- United States
- State
- NC North Carolina
- jessica.hauger@duke.edu
- Affiliation
- Duke University
- Website URL
- https://scholars.duke.edu/display/per6752612
- Keywords
- History of medicine, history of public health, Indigenous healing, Kiowa history, American Indian history, spatial history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a teacher, an organizer, and a southerner. I have a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, each from the University of Alabama (#rolltide). I’m invested in learning and teaching the history of local people and places to make myself and others better neighbors.
As a PhD Candidate at Duke University, I study healing in modern history. My dissertation recovers medicine’s role as a key site of contestation between Indigenous people, settlers, and the U.S. government between 1880 and 1934. I argue that Kiowas, members of a tribal nation of the Great Plains, used both Indigenous and Western healing practices to sustain and reconstitute their communities through this era of settler occupation.
- Recent Publications
Hauger, Jessica. “Colonial Politics are Reproductive Politics: A Review of Brianna Theobald’s Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century.” Nursing Clio, November 26, 2019.
Hauger, Jessica. “Carr, the Confederacy and Conversations Ongoing.” The Abusable Past, October 29, 2019.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @jjhauger
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Local & Regional, Medicine, Race, Religion, Rural & Agrarian History, Women
