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Tanya Hart

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213J Bailey Hall
 
 
   
Current Research

Examination of cancer as metaphor and reality within medical, political and popular discourses during the early national and antebellum periods of the United States.

 
Current Projects
Comparative analysis of anti-syphilis neighborhood health programs among African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women and the anti-prostitution movement of the first quarter of the twentieth century in New York City
 
Research Interests

Women's studies, African American studies, public health and medicine in U.S. history, and migration studies, all with an overarching emphasis on identity formation.

 
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Courses Taught

AMS 510 History of American Women--Colonial Times to 1870

AMS 550 Introduction to Current Issues and Research in American Studies

AMS 696 Studies in: _____ Identity &Health in US History

 
Education

Ph.D. Yale University