Kathleen Vongsathorn
Assistant Professor
Peck Hall 1232
Office Phone: 618-650-2413
Email: kvongsa@siue.edu
Education
D.Phil. in Modern History (University of Oxford, 2013)
M.Sc. in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology (University of Oxford, 2008)
B.A. in History (Carleton College, 2007)
Research Focus
History of Medicine
African History
Humanitarianism
Missionary Medicine
Women's Health
History of Childhood
Courses Taught
World History, 1500 to Present (112B)
From Leprosy to Ebola: Health in African History
Aid to Africa: Humanitarianism and Development in African History
Publications
"Teaching, Learning, and Adapting Emotions in Uganda's Child Leprosy Settlement, c. 1930-62," in Stephanie Olsen (ed.), Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History: National, Colonial, and Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
"'A Real Home': Children, Family, Mission, and the Negotiation of Life at the Kumi Children's Leper Home in Colonial Uganda," Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth 8, no. 1 (2015), 55-74.
"Public Health or Public Good? Humanitarian Agendas and the Treatment of Leprosy in Uganda," in Bronwen Everill and Josiah Kaplan (eds.), The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 43-66.
"Discovering the 'Leper': Shifting Attitudes towards Leprosy in Twentieth-Century Uganda’, in Jonathan Reinarz and Kevin Siena (eds.), A Medical History of Skin: Scratching the Surface (Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 99-111.
"Gnawing Pains, Festering Ulcers, and Nightmare Suffering: Selling Leprosy as a Humanitarian Cause in the British Empire, c. 1890-1960," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40, no. 5 (2012), 863-78.
"First and Foremost the Evangelist? Mission and Government Priorities for the Treatment of Leprosy in Uganda, 1927-48," Journal of Eastern African Studies 6, no. 3 (2012), 544-60.