Photograph by Andrew G. Payne
Carrie Streeter specializes in the U.S. history of health, gender, and race. She currently a teaches history at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Her dissertation, “Wings to their Heels: Self-Expression and Health and the Rise of the New Woman,” explores the corporeal expertise about mind-body medicine that late nineteenth-century women created through studies of elocution and physical culture.