Bio
Jessica L. Adler is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Her research and teaching focus on the modern United States, especially public health, war and society, and incarceration. Adler’s first book, Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), is about the World War I-era origins of the nation’s largest integrated health care system. Ongoing projects include a book about the history of medical services in U.S. prisons, as well as research on contemporary health conditions in carceral facilities and late twentieth century transformations in the U.S. veterans’ health program. Adler's work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including Health Affairs, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. She has collaboratively led community-based public history programs and written for news outlets, such as The Washington Post, The Hill, and The Miami Herald.
Adler's work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine, Friends of the Princeton University Library, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the Florida Humanities Council, the FIU Office of the Provost Humanities Research Initiative, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation, the Institute for Political History, and the U.S. Army Military History Institute.