Teaching Fellows

Caine Jordan specializes in the History of Medicine and African-American history. Focusing on African American physicians in the Jim Crow North, his first project examines obstacles to their professional advancement, their development and use of counter-institutions for professional and patient advocacy, and their creation of public health outfits for the distribution of care to disadvantaged communities. Specifically, it considers the desegregation of the American Medical Association (AMA) through efforts by National Medical Association (NMA) officials, and public health clinics addressing narcotic addiction and lack of access to hospital care. He earned his doctoral degree in History (2024) at the University of Chicago.