PhD '24 (US History), University of Chicago

BIOGRAPHY

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.

DISSERTATION

Leonidas: Black Physicians and Public Health in the Jim Crow North

PUBLICATIONS

"'A Disgrace to all Slave-Holders': The University of Chicago's Ties to Slavery and the Path to Reparations," co-written with Guy Emerson Mount and Kai Perry Parker, The Journal of African-American History, Vol. 103 No. 1-2, 163-178.

"The Future of the Stephen A. Douglas Relics", co-authored with Anne K. Knafl, and Nancy Spiegel, May 2, 2022.