Adler CV, January 2017
Jessica L. Adler
Assistant Professor | Departments of History and Health Policy and Management
Florida International University | 11200 SW 8th St., AHC5-449, Miami, FL 33199
[email protected] | 305-348-7968
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (with distinction) Columbia University, History, 2013
Master of Philosophy, Columbia University, History, 2009
Master of Arts, Columbia University, History, 2007
Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), University of Rochester, History, 2000
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Florida International University, Assistant Professor, History/Health Policy & Management, August
2014-present
Tufts University, Visiting Researcher, Department of History, January 2014-August 2014
Tufts University, Visiting Lecturer, Experimental College, August-December 2012; August-December
2013
Columbia University, Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellow, Department of History, 2006-2011
Barnard College, Teaching Assistant, Department of History, January-May 2008; January-May 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System (Johns Hopkins University Press,
forthcoming)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“‘The service I rendered was just as true’: African American soldiers and veterans as activist patients”
(American Journal of Public Health, accepted January 21, 2017)
“The Founding of Walter Reed General Hospital and the Beginning of Modern Institutional Army
Medical Care in the United States” (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, October
2014)
Book Chapter
“Veterans”, The Routledge Handbook of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military, Kara Dixon Vuic, ed.,
(Routledge, forthcoming)
1
Adler CV, January 2017
Book Reviews
The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Journal of Economic History, forthcoming)
Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran (Journal of
Military History, October 2016, Vol. 80, No. 4, p. 1285-1286)
The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War (Journal of the
History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, published online September 4, 2015, doi:
10.1093/jhmas/jrv036)
War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America (Reviews in History, July 2014)
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Enterprise & Society,
June 2014, Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 588-590)
Peer-Reviewed Encyclopedia Entries
“Department of Veterans Affairs” (Blum, Edward J., ed., America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A
Supplement to the Dictionary of American History. 2 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 2016.)
“Newton Diehl Baker” (International Encyclopedia of the First World War, issued by Freie Universität
Berlin, http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/baker_newton_d, December 2014)
Popular/Open Source Publications
“The Grisly Work of VA Secretaries” (The Hill, January 2017)
“War Vets Find Solace in Stories of Others” (Miami Herald, November 2015)
“Private Care for Veterans? We’ve already tried it” (USA Today, June 2014)
“People Were Skeptical About Veterans’ Hospitals, too: The Affordable Care Act and Health Policy
Precedents” (Origins, January 2014)
In progress/under review
“Medicine and Modern Warfare” chapter, Oxford Handbook of American Medical History, James A.
Schafer, Jr., Richard M. Mizelle, Jr., and Helen K. Valier, Eds., Oxford University Press (in progress)
The Impact of Zika on Local Businesses (co-authored article under review with peer-reviewed journal)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
‘Communistically-minded’ Health Care for United States Veterans: When State Medicine Prevailed,
May 2017, American Association for the History of Medicine, Nashville, TN
2
Adler CV, January 2017
Yield not to sympathy: The losing battle against publicly sponsored veterans’ health care in 1930s
America, April 2017, Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL
When Government Sponsored Health Care Prevailed: An Historical Case Study of the United States
Veterans' Health System, October 2016, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting &
Expo, Denver, CO
I never did feel quite well again: African American veterans and health care in the Great War Era,
May 2016, American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
The service that I rendered was just as true: Government sponsored health care for African Americans
in the World War I era, April 11, 2015, Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Montgomery,
AL
Centers of Revolution: Protest, Advocacy, and Medical Care in World War I America, Oct. 18, 2014,
Dissent, Activism & Transformation in the World War I Era, Georgian Court University, Lakewood,
NJ
The Burdens of a Great War: Health, Policy, & the Birth of the United States Veterans’ Health
System, June 5, 2014, Policy History Conference, Columbus, OH
Precedents for Federal Action: Ensuring the Health of Veterans and Seniors (co-author, panel coorganizer), January 5, 2014, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
To save those men from the doctrines of the radical agitator: Interest group advocacy and veterans’
medical care in World War I America, January 5, 2014, American Historical Association Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Soldier-Patients Become Civilian-Citizens: Shifting Presentations and Perceptions of a U.S. Military
Hospital During and After the Great War, March 29, 2013, Popular Culture/American Culture
Association National Conference, Washington, D.C.
A Solemn Obligation: Soldiers, Veterans, and Health Policy in the United States, 1917-1924, January
5, 2013, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
“War was hell but the after-war effects were ‘heller’”: The Great War and the Roots of the United
States Veterans’ Hospital System, May 11, 2012, Society for Military History Annual Meeting,
Arlington, VA
Perceptions of United States Army Health Care in the World War One Era, July 1, 2011, AngloAmerican Conference, London, England
Walter Reed Hospital and the Rise of the American Military Medical Complex, April 29, 2009, Walter
Reed Army Medical Center Centennial Symposium, Washington, D.C.
3
Adler CV, January 2017
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CAMPUS LECTURES
Women’s History in Motion conference: a celebration of the career of Alice Kessler-Harris, “The
Gendered Imagination: From Women to Gender and Beyond” panel member, April 29, 2016,
Columbia University, New York, NY
Historians, Archives, and Qualitative Research, March 2, 2016, presentation for Prof. Nazafe
Ganapati’s Empirical Methods in Public Administration graduate class, Florida International
University, Miami, FL
The Ins and Outs of Conference Presentations, October 9, 2015, graduate student professionalization
seminar sponsored by the Department of History Graduate Student Association, Florida International
University, Miami, Florida
World War I Health Care, September 24, 2015, Skype with Prof. Stephen Ortiz’s undergraduate War
and Society in the Modern United States class, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
Health Policy and History: The Case of the United States Veterans’ Health System, March 6, 2015,
Department of Epidemiology Research in Progress seminar, FIU Robert Stempel College of Public
Health and Social Work, Miami, FL
The Debt We Owe Them: World War I and the Birth of the United States Veterans’ Hospital System,
Nov. 6, 2014, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
World War I: A Century Later, panel discussion sponsored by the Knight Foundation and History
Miami, September 20, 2014, New World Symphony, Miami, FL
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
War and Health: Veterans’ Policies and Perspectives, Florida International University, Office of the
Provost, Humanities Research Initiative, Individual Research Project in the Humanities, 2016-17
(Project Director)
Bridging the Gap: Linking History PhD Training to Non Academic Employment, National
Endowment for the Humanities, Next Generation Planning Grant, 2016-17 (Co-Project Director)
Talking Service, Florida Humanities Council, 2015, 2016 (Program Facilitator)
Quinn Fellow, Doris G. Quinn Foundation, 2011-12
Hugh Davis Graham Award, Institute for Political History, 2010-2011
Travel Bursary, John S. Cohen Foundation, 2011
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, Columbia University, 2009, 2010
General and Mrs. M. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, U.S. Army Military History Institute,
2008
4
Adler CV, January 2017
Brebner Travel Grant, Department of History, Columbia University, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellow, Columbia University, Department of History, 2006-2011
Scholarship to attend Columbia University Center for Oral History Summer Institute, 2005
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Bancroft Dissertation Award, Columbia University, 2013
Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize nominee, Society of American Historians, 2012
First Place, Health/Science/Environment, New Jersey Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists,
2005
First Place, Special Issue, New Jersey Press Association, 2005
Third Place, Business and Financial Writing, New Jersey Press Association, 2005
First Prize, Feature, Lifestyle, and Entertainment Writing, New Jersey Press Association, 2005
Webb Prize for the Study of the Black Experience in America, University of Rochester, 2000
PROFESSIONAL, PUBLIC AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Professional
American Journal of Public Health, peer reviewer, 2017
University Press of Florida, peer reviewer, 2015
Journal of Policy History, peer reviewer, 2014
Public
What does a historian of health and medicine do? Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim 5th Annual
Wertheim Conference, “How to Become a Health Professional”, September 20, 2016
“The Technicality of Fort Lauderdale’s Homeless Feeding Ban,” WLRN, South Florida (interview),
December 2, 2014
“Body Politics: the History of Health Care Policy” All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU, Columbus,
Ohio (interview) January 30, 2014,
“Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower” History Talk, Ohio State University (interview), March 20, 2014
“Saying Goodbye to Walter Reed” Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio (interview), July 27,
2011
5
Adler CV, January 2017
Big Onion Walking Tours, (tour guide), May 2007-May 2008
Department/University
Florida International University, Department of History, Graduate Committee, 2015, 2016
Florida International University, Department of History, Library Committee, 2014-15
MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Historical Association
American Public Health Association
Society for Military History
NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Features Reporter, Herald News, Paterson, New Jersey, 2003-2006. Sample publications include:
“Vicious Cycle for Needy: Hospitals, MDs, patients, hurting” (April 2, 2006); “Love & Grief:
Caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s face challenge” (May 3, 2005); “Beyond Skin Deep:
Living with epidermolysis bullosa” (December 13, 2005); “A Child’s Illness: It happens to the whole
family” (April 5, 2005); “In the Face of Segregation” (from the “Oral History series”, January 2,
2005); “Journey to a Dream” (from the “Oral History series”, April 10, 2005); “Have it Their Way:
Fast food choices abound in inner cities” (November 15, 2005); “Cultural Factors Drive Teen
Pregnancy” (October 24, 2004)
6