Katie Brian

Katie Brian is a second-year doctoral candidate whose primary interests are 19th-century medical culture, performance theory, and the history of mental illness. She is most concerned with how effects of individual experiences of trauma engage with the process of identity formation and the ways in which the aural realm acts as a site of both regulation and contestation. She is currently at work researching the effects of aural observation and hallucinatory culture at St. Elizabeth's hospital at the turn of the 20th- century.

Katie recently wrote an encyclopedia entry on the National Committee on Social Hygiene for the Encyclopedia for American Disabilities History. She also held a position with the National Park Service as the cultural resources intern for the Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration.

kmbrian@gmail.com