Andrew Fearnley
ANDREW M. FEARNLEY is an intellectual historian and historian of science and medicine with a particular interest in the United States and Europe. Much of my work deals with the concept of race, and the history of racial thought in the modern world. My doctoral work considered how this particular concept influenced American psychiatrists’ epistemologies and their decisions about methods, and proposed ways in which historians could go about recovering such concepts in the past. I am presently revising the manuscript for publication under the proposed title of _Making Methods Work: American Psychiatry and Concepts of Race_. I am also working on an article that plots the rise and formalization of psychiatric research around mid-century, and the challenges investigators faced from their research subjects.
Publications
Selected Publications
- "Review of Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports by Susan Ware," International Journal of the History of Sport 29 5 (2012), 787-89.
- "Review of The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960, by Lawrence P. Jackson," Journal of American Studies (forthcoming).
- ‘Review of Melvin Sabshin, Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective,’ History of Psychiatry 21 1 (March, 2010), 102-104.
- ‘Would you give us the benefit of your combined wisdom: Cleveland’s branch of the NAACP, 1929-1968,’ 201-18, in Long is the Way and Hard: A Centennial History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, eds. Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
- ‘Writing the History of Karamu House: Philanthropy, Welfare, and Race in War-Time Cleveland,’ Ohio History 115 1 (Spring, 2008), 80-100.
- ‘Race and the Intellectualizing of Suicide in the American Human Sciences, c.1950-c.1975,’ 231-56, in Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World, edited by Jonathan Weaver and David Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
- ‘Primitive Madness: Re-Writing the History of Psychiatry and Race,’ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63 2 (April, 2008), 245-57.
- ‘How Historians’ Beliefs about Race have Influenced Histories of Racial Thought,’ Reviews in American History 37 3 (September, 2009).
- ‘Changing Conceptions and Technical Expressions: Child Psychiatry and the Rise of the Longitudinal Study in the American Mental Sciences,’ in Looking in and Seeing Out: Contexts of a Longitudinal Study in the Age of Eisenhower, edited by Stephen Lassonde and Linda Mayes. New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming.
- ‘Review of Steven Epstein, Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research,’ Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 34 4 (August, 2008), 835-40.
- ‘”An Attempt to Proselytize”: Globalization and Its Discontents,’ (forthcoming)
- 'Review of Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul,' (forthcoming)
Work in Progress
- "When the Harlem Renaissance Became Vogue: The Mechanics of Periodization and Styles of Historicism in the Postwar United States" (under review)
- ‘Diagrams of Disorder and Difference: Psychiatry’s Technical Illustrations, Theories of Communication, and Disciplinary Assumptions about Race, c1900-1950’ (under preparation).
- '"Profits for Panthers": The Black Panthers Publishing Strategies, 1968-1973' (under preparation)
- Making Methods Work: American Psychiatry and Concepts of Race (under preparation)