Sarah-Louise Dawtry
Home Department: History
Sarah-Louise Dawtry completed her undergraduate degree in History with a minor in English Literature at the University of Cincinnati, where she attained membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and went on to complete a masters in Art History at the same University. Her dissertation, completed at Northwestern University in August 2024, is entitled "The Performance of Care: Hospitals as Advertisements and Centers of Healing in the Mining Districts of the United States and Mexico at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." In it, she examines the significance of mining hospitals in the late 19th and early 20th century US-Mexico borderlands as indicators of capitalist growth and symbols of statebuilding, and shows how marginalized groups, particularly Mexican women, were able to use these institutions to further their own interests. While historical in nature, her work is intended to be a direct commentary on both contemporary debates on the politics of care, the role of state and private practice in public health, and the recent resumption of industrial mining in the Southwest. She is currently a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Northwestern's Chabraja Center.