• Jessica Borsellino
  • 2023-24
  • American Dissertation Fellowships
  • Duke University (Durham-NC)
  • Doctor of Philosophy
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  • History
  • History of Medicine
  • Medicine for Generations: Healing and Colonialism in Kiowa Communities, 1867–1934
  • Durham
  • NC
  • United States
  • Jessica Borsellino (she/they) is a new mom and a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at Duke University. Her dissertation, “Medicine for Generations: Healing and Colonialism in Kiowa Communities, 1867–1934,” argues that Kiowas, members of a Great Plains tribal nation, used both Indigenous and western healing practices to sustain and reconstitute their communities through an era of settler occupation, transforming their reservation into a homeland between 1867 and 1934.