Email: eobrien@history.ucla.edu

Elizabeth O’Brien, Acting Director [Spring 2024)

Elizabeth O’Brien is an Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and of Latin America. Her book, Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940, is forthcoming with The University of North Carolina Press in fall 2023. Her research has been funded by grants from ACLS/Mellon, NEH, Fulbright, and NSF, and has been published in The Lancet, Endeavour, The Washington Post, The Journal of Women’s History, Women’s History Review, and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 

 

Email: On leave spring 2024. Please contact Prof. Elizabeth O’Brien with any PHI Inquiries.

Office: Bunche Hall, 6345

 

Tawny Paul, Director [On leave Spring 2024]

Chloe Bell-Wilson, Graduate Research Assistant, Public History Toolkit Project

Chloe Bell-Wilson is a doctoral candidate focusing on the history of medicine at UCLA. She has a deep interest in developing innovative pedagogy, and in the application of public history methodologies across the history curriculum.