Jennifer Brier Author

Jennifer Brier is an associate professor of history and of gender and women's studies, and director of the Program in Gender and Women's Studies, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis . Jim Downs is an associate professor of history at Connecticut College and the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction . Jennifer L. Morgan is a professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University and the author of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery .