Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
@poxygraduate.bsky.social
PhD in HSTM, Lecturer Public Health & Society at Wash U STL - South Africa, British empire, public health - #envhist, water supply, urbanity - Fulbright, NSF - She/her
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Crafting Uneven Waterscapes: The Well, the Tank, and the Racialised Contestation of Early Water Infrastructure in Colonial Durban, 1854–1898
Following borough incorporation in 1854, Durban took control of and built on the existing spiderwebbed networks of wells and tanks to maintain a clean water supply until the introduction of piped w...
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Happy to say I've got another new article out to end the summer: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to the SAHJ's fabulous editors and peer reviewers - they truly gave this piece new life!
Thanks to the SAHJ's fabulous editors and peer reviewers - they truly gave this piece new life!
Need some light reading for the evening? Check out @jakobburnham.bsky.social's recently published interview with @nursingclio.bsky.social 2025 Article Prize winners Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive, who wrote a fab analysis of medical businesswomen in 18th c France 🇫🇷
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Interview with Nursing Clio Prize 2025 Winners, Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive
Nursing Clio’s sixth annual best article prize competition was awarded to Cathy McClive, Ben Weider Professor in French Revolutionary Studies and Professor of History at Florida State University, a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Need some light reading for the evening? Check out @jakobburnham.bsky.social's recently published interview with @nursingclio.bsky.social 2025 Article Prize winners Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive, who wrote a fab analysis of medical businesswomen in 18th c France 🇫🇷
nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...
nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of PFAS — also known as "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
The consensus remains clear: vaccines do not cause autism.
The statement in the image is not consistent with the evidence.
The statement in the image is not consistent with the evidence.
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The consensus remains clear: vaccines do not cause autism.
The statement in the image is not consistent with the evidence.
The statement in the image is not consistent with the evidence.
Did you know there was a time when fandoms constituted medical conditions? (I didn't)
Diana Anselmo, one of this year's @nursingclio.bsky.social Writers in Residence, explains what happened in this newest piece!
nursingclio.org/2025/11/19/f...
Diana Anselmo, one of this year's @nursingclio.bsky.social Writers in Residence, explains what happened in this newest piece!
nursingclio.org/2025/11/19/f...
“Filmitis”: When Movie Fandom Became a Medical Condition
In 1916, when Hollywood cinema first emerged, “filmitis” debuted in US cultural debate as “the most modern of diseases, the last cry in pathology.” Likened to an infection “over which physicians an…
nursingclio.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Did you know there was a time when fandoms constituted medical conditions? (I didn't)
Diana Anselmo, one of this year's @nursingclio.bsky.social Writers in Residence, explains what happened in this newest piece!
nursingclio.org/2025/11/19/f...
Diana Anselmo, one of this year's @nursingclio.bsky.social Writers in Residence, explains what happened in this newest piece!
nursingclio.org/2025/11/19/f...
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
Great new @nursingclio.bsky.social essay on 20th-century women's healthcare in Colorado!
nursingclio.org/2025/11/12/w...
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“Working for Our Lives:” How One Colorado Women’s Clinic Redefined Healthcare Amid Conservative Backlash.
In 2022 the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting safe and legal abortion on the chopping block around the country. The current administration cut most of the CDC’s Division of Reproductive…
nursingclio.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Great new @nursingclio.bsky.social essay on 20th-century women's healthcare in Colorado!
nursingclio.org/2025/11/12/w...
nursingclio.org/2025/11/12/w...
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🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
Wadham College invites applications for a fixed-term Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, named the David Richards Fellowship, September 2026 – August 2029.
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧
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theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city’s archives
Colonial era records reveal the intersection of race and access to water in South Africa’s history.
theconversation.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
theconversation.com/access-to-wa...
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
@nursingclio.bsky.social
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
A New Film about Ida Craddock: An Interview with the Director
A new docu-drama about reproductive freedom and women’s rights, Sex Radical chronicles the life of Ida Craddock (1857-1902), a feminist, spiritualist, and sex educator. Craddock frequently ran afou…
nursingclio.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@nursingclio.bsky.social
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."
We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/30/a...
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…
wp.me
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…
wp.me
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
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It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.
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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Wash U's School of Public Health is hiring an environmental/planetary health scholar (among other things)! Disciplines to apply include but are not limited to geography, biostats, toxicology, and economics 🌎💉
apply.interfolio.com/173629
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October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wash U's School of Public Health is hiring an environmental/planetary health scholar (among other things)! Disciplines to apply include but are not limited to geography, biostats, toxicology, and economics 🌎💉
apply.interfolio.com/173629
apply.interfolio.com/173629
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There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.
niche-canada.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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Editor of William and Mary Quarterly
Job Requisition: JR100984 Editor of William and Mary Quarterly (Open) Job Posting Title: Editor of William and Mary Quarterly Department: CC00007 WM001 | PRES | OIEAHC - Omohundro Institute Job Family...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly
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New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice
On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not take Tylenol because fetal exposure to acetaminophen causes autism…
nursingclio.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Ned Blackhawk - How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Reposted by Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...