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Matthew Gambino

Graduate Student

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Areas of Specialization

History of Psychiatry, History of Medicine, Modern U.S. History, History of Science

Research Focus

Citizneship and Mental Health; St. Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

Education

M.D., University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign (expected 2010), Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (expected 2010), B.A. (with honors), University of Chicago (1998)

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Gambino, Matthew. ""These Strangers Within Our Gates": Race, Psychiatry, and Mental Illness among Black Americans at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1900-1940 ." History of Psychiatry 19.4 (2008): 387-408.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Gambino, Matthew. "St. Elizabeths Hospital." Encyclopedia of American Disability History, 3 vols.. New York: Facts On File, 2009.

Reviews

  • Rev. of Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American CultureBulletin of the History of Medicine 83 (2009): 615-616.
  • Rev. of Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006, by Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen. Annals of Iowa 66 (2007): 336-338.
  • Rev. of Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914: A Social History of Madness in Comparative Perspective, comp. Bill Forsythe. , ed. Joseph Melling. Isis 92 (2001): 197-199.