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Jessica L. AdlerFlorida International UniversityDepartment of History, Steven J. Green School of International and Public AffairsDepartment of Health Policy & Management, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work11200 SW 8th St., AHC5-449, Miami, FL 33199 jadler@fiu.edu 305-348-7968EDUCATIONPhD (with distinction)Columbia UniversityHistory2013M.PhilColumbia UniversityHistory2009MAColumbia UniversityHistory2007BA (magna cum laude;Phi Beta Kappa)University of RochesterHistory2000ACADEMIC EXPERIENCEFlorida International UniversityAssociate Professor- History- Health Policy &Management2020-Florida International UniversityAssistant Professor- History- Health Policy &Management2014-2020Tufts UniversityVisiting ResearcherDepartment ofHistory2014Tufts UniversityVisiting LecturerExperimentalCollege2012, 2013Columbia UniversityRichard HofstadterFaculty FellowHistory2006-2011PUBLICATIONS IN DISCIPLINEBOOK1. Adler, J.L., Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System (Baltimore:The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS1. Adler, J.L., Page, T., “Disability Reporting Among U.S. Immigrant Veterans: Findings andImplications,” Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health, 27, no. 2: (2019): 18-27.2. Chen, W., Adler, J.L., “Assessment of Screen Exposure in Young Children, 1997 to 2014,”JAMA Pediatrics (2019): doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.5546. [Epub ahead of print]1
3. Adler, J.L., “Veterans, Like Other Working- and Middle-Class Americans, Increasingly Relyon Public Health Programs,” American Journal of Public Health, 108, no. 3 (2018): 298-299.4. Page, T., Williams, M., Cassella, G., Adler, J.L., Amick, B., “The Impact of Zika on LocalBusinesses,” Disaster Prevention & Management, 26 (2017): 452-457.5. Adler, J.L., “‘The Service I Rendered Was Just as True’: African American Soldiers andVeterans as Activist Patients,” American Journal of Public Health, 107, no. 5 (2017): 675683.6. Adler, J.L., “The Founding of Walter Reed General Hospital and the Beginning of ModernInstitutional Army Medical Care in the United States,” Journal of the History of Medicineand Allied Sciences, 69, no. 4 (2014): 521-553.REFEREED BOOK CHAPTER1. Adler, J.L., “To Recognize Those Who Served: Gendered Analyses of Veterans’ Policies,Representations, and Experiences,” The Routledge Handbook of Gender, War, and the U.S.Military, Kara Dixon Vuic, ed., (New York: Routledge, 2017): 303-322.REFEREED BOOK REVIEWS1. Adler, J.L., A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making ofthe Veterans Bureau, by Rosemary Stevens, Nursing History Review, 28, no. 1, (2020): 209211.2. Adler, J.L., Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health CareSystem, by Christy Ford Chapin, Business History Review, 92, no. 2, (2018): 390-392.3. Adler, J.L., Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists, by Fiona Reid,Social History of Medicine, 31, no. 2 (2018): 432–433.4. Adler, J.L., The Rise of the Military Welfare State by Jennifer Mittlestadt, Journal ofEconomic History, 77, no. 2 (2017): 625-627.5. Adler, J.L., Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the DisabledVeteran, by John Kinder, Journal of Military History, 80, no. 4 (2016): 1285-1286.6. Adler, J.L., The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First WorldWar, by Ana Carden-Coyne, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 71, no.1 (2016): 97-99.7. Adler, J.L., War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America, by Beth Linker, Reviewsin History – open source, long format reviews hosted by the Institute for Historical Researchat the University of London (2014): https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1619.8. Adler, J.L., Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State,by Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, Enterprise & Society, 15, no. 3 (2014): 588-590.2
REFEREED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES1. Adler, J.L., “Department of Veterans Affairs,” America in the World, 1776 to the Present: ASupplement to the Dictionary of American History, 2 vols. Blum, Edward J., ed., (FarmingtonHills: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2016): 284-286.2. Adler, J.L., “Newton Diehl Baker” International Encyclopedia of the First World War,issued by Freie Universität Berlin (2014): ker newton d,NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS1. Adler, J.L., “If we want to stop covid-19, we can’t forget the incarcerated,” Washington Post,March 31, 20202. Adler, J.L., “Why Incarcerated People Must Be Able to Speak Out About Abuse,”Washington Post, November 15, 2019.3. Adler, J.L., “Veterans’ Perspectives and the Great Task Remaining,” National Council onPublic History, History@Work, March 8, 2019.4. Adler, J.L., “The Veterans Who Fought For — and Won — Government Health Care,”Washington Post, November 11, 2017.5. Adler, J.L., “The Page 99 Test, Jessica Adler’s Burdens of War: Creating the United StatesVeterans Health System,” page99test.blogspot.com, September 30, 2017.6. Adler, J.L., “The Evolution of the Department of Veterans Affairs,” Scholars StrategyNetwork brief, September 2017.7. Adler, J.L., “The Grisly Work of VA Secretaries,” The Hill, January 13, 2017.8. Adler, J.L., “War Vets Find Solace in Stories of Others,” Miami Herald, November 10, 2015.9. Adler, J.L., “Private Care for Veterans? We’ve Already Tried It,” USA Today, June 11, 2014.10. Adler, J.L., “People Were Skeptical About Veterans’ Hospitals, Too: The Affordable CareAct and Health Policy Precedents,” Origins, Vol. 7, no. 5 (2014).REPORTS1. Adler, J.L., Almarales, B., Humanities-Based Programming for Veterans: Report on aUniversity-Community Partnership, for the National Endowment for the Humanities (2019).2. Adler, J.L., Amick, B., Qamar, A., Arrieta, A., “The Role of Economic Information inHealth Care Related Decision-Making: A Case Study of a PAHO Disaster Risk ReductionProgram in the Caribbean,” Preliminary report for the Pan American Health Organization(2019).3
SELECTED WORK IN PREP1. Adler, J.L., “Health and Modern Warfare: The Civil War Through the Early Cold War”chapter for Oxford Handbook of American Medical History, James A. Schafer, Jr., RichardM. Mizelle, Jr., and Helen K. Valier, Eds., (Oxford University Press) (revision under review)2. Adler, J.L., Health-Related Prison Conditions in the Progressive and Civil Rights Eras:Lessons from the Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports,accepted for IssueLab.org3. Martin T. Olliff, Nancy K. Bristow, Adler, J.L., proceedings of panel, “Fighting the GreatWar Over Here” from conference, Dixie’s Great War: World War I and the American South,Andrew Huebner and John Giggie, eds., (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press)(contribution and volume accepted for publication)4. Adler, J.L., Minimal Standards of Adequacy: A History of Health Care in U.S. Prisons (bookmanuscript in progress)PRESENTATIONSINVITED TALKS1. “Black Vietnam: Into the Light” (panelist for film screening held via Zoom/Facebook Live),Ensemble Studio Theater, Los Angeles, CA, June 13, 2020.2. “Deinstitutionalizing Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans and Community-Based Care in anAge of Limits” (research talk), Culpeper Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology,History and Social Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA,May 22, 2019.3. “Fighting for and Against Government Sponsored Health Care in America: Lessons from theHistory of the Veterans’ Medical System” (research talk), event for National Library ofMedicine exhibit, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform,University of Florida Health Science Center Library, Gainseville, FL, Feb. 28, 2019.4. “The Great War and the Birth of the United States Veterans Health System” (research talk),Symposium on World War I in Alabama, Alabama Department of Archives and History,Montgomery, AL, June 9, 2018.5. “Post-War Multiplicity: United States Veterans and the Vietnam-Era Fight for CommunityBased Mental Health Counseling” (research talk), Historian of Multiplicity: A Symposium,University of Rochester, Department of History, Rochester, NY, May 5, 2018.6. “Suffering the Horrors of War: Interwar Debates about the Veterans Health System and theirEnduring Consequences” (research talk), LCpl Benjamin W. Schmidt Symposium on War,Conflict, and Society, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, March 1, 2018.4
7. “Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System” (book talk) Books &Books, Coral Gables, FL, January 14, 2018.8. “A Southern View of the Advent of the Veterans Health System” (research talk), Dixie’sGreat War Symposium, Summersell Center for the Study of the South, University ofAlabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, October 6, 2017.9. “Veterans and ‘the Gendered Imagination’” (research talk), Women’s History in MotionConference: a Celebration of the Career of Alice Kessler-Harris, Guest Speaker, ColumbiaUniversity, New York, NY, April 29, 2016.10. “Health Policy and History: The Case of the United States Veterans’ Health System”(research talk), Department of Epidemiology Research in Progress seminar, FIU RobertStempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Miami, FL, March 6, 2015.11. “The Debt We Owe Them: World War I and the Birth of the United States Veterans’Hospital System” (research talk), National Archives and Records Administration,Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2014.12. World War I: A Century Later (panelist), event sponsored by the Knight Foundation andHistory Miami, New World Symphony, Miami, FL, September 20, 2014.CONFERENCESAccepted/Completed Presentations1. “Veterans’ Health Care and Social Protection in the Post-Civil Rights, Pro-Free Market Era”paper accepted for Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, April 2020,event canceled due to covid-19.2. “Care in Confinement: Negotiating Patients’ Rights in U.S. Hospitals and Prisons in the1940s” accepted for American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting,May 2020, Ann Arbor, MI, event canceled due to covid-19.3. "Help Without Hassles": Vietnam Veterans and Community-Based Care in Cold WarAmerica” (paper) Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, May 10-12,2019.4. “A Global Paradigm and Domestic Realities: ‘Well-Functioning Health Systems’ andStakeholder Activism” (paper) Business History Conference, Cartagena, Colombia, March15, 2019.5. “Vet Centers and the Fortification of Community-Based Care in Post-Vietnam America”(paper) Policy History Conference, Phoenix, AZ, May 18, 2018.6. “Communistically-Minded Health Care for U.S. Veterans: When State Medicine Prevailed”(poster) American Association for the History of Medicine, Nashville, TN, May 6, 2017.5
7. “Yield not to sympathy: The losing battle against publicly sponsored veterans’ health care in1930s America” (paper) Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL,April 1, 2017.8. “When Government Sponsored Health Care Prevailed: An Historical Case Study of theUnited States Veterans' Health System” (poster) American Public Health Association AnnualMeeting & Expo, Denver, CO, November 1, 2016.9. “I never did feel quite well again: African American Veterans and Health Care in the GreatWar Era” (paper) American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting,Minneapolis, MN, April 30, 2016.10. “The service that I rendered was just as true: Government sponsored health care for AfricanAmericans in the World War I era” (paper) Society for Military History Annual Meeting,Montgomery, AL, April 11, 2015.11. “Centers of Revolution: Protest, Advocacy, and Medical Care in World War I America”(paper) Dissent, Activism & Transformation in the World War I Era, Georgian CourtUniversity, Lakewood, NJ, October 18, 2014.12. “The Burdens of a Great War: Health, Policy, & the Birth of the United States Veterans’Health System” (paper presentation and panel co-organizer) Policy History Conference,Columbus, OH, June 5, 2014.13. “Precedents for Federal Action: Ensuring the Health of Veterans and Seniors” (co-author ofpaper and panel co-organizer) American Historical Association Annual Meeting,Washington, D.C., January 5, 2014.14. “To save those men from the doctrines of the radical agitator: Interest group advocacy andveterans’ medical care in World War I America” (paper presentation and panel co-organizer)American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 5, 2014.15. “Soldier-Patients Become Civilian-Citizens: Shifting Presentations and Perceptions of a U.S.Military Hospital During and After the Great War” (paper) Popular Culture/AmericanCulture Association National Conference, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2013.16. “A Solemn Obligation: Soldiers, Veterans, and Health Policy in the United States, 19171924” (poster) American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January5, 2013.17. “‘War was hell but the after-war effects were heller’: The Great War and the Roots of theUnited States Veterans’ Hospital System” (paper) Society for Military History AnnualMeeting, Arlington, VA, May 11, 2012.18. “Perceptions of United States Army Health Care in the World War One Era” (paper) AngloAmerican Conference, London, England, July 1, 2011.6
19. “Walter Reed Hospital and the Rise of the American Military Medical Complex” (paper)Walter Reed Army Medical Center Centennial Symposium, Washington, D.C., April 29,2009.Panels Chaired/Moderated1. Veterans Studies: Understanding Those Who Serve and the Experience of War (panelmoderator) National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogues on the Experience of WarProject Director’s Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2018.2. Mobilizing Medicine in War and Peace (panel chair) American Association for the History ofMedicine Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 13, 2018.3. Fit to Fight?: War, Medicine, and Disease (panel chair)Society for Military History AnnualMeeting Louisville, KY, April 6, 2018.PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS1. Nominee for Research Award, Florida International University, 20202. Top Scholar Award, Florida International University, 20193. Carnegie Fellowship nominee, Florida International University, 20174. Bancroft Dissertation Award, Columbia University, 20135. Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize nominee, Society of American Historians, 20126. First Place-Health/Science/Environment, Society of Professional Journalists, New JerseyChapter, 20057. First Place-Feature, Lifestyle, & Entertainment Writing, New Jersey Press Association, 20058. First Place-Special Issue, New Jersey Press Association, 20059. Third Place-Business/Financial Writing, New Jersey Press Association, 200510. Webb Prize for the Study of the Black Experience in America, University of Rochester, 2000GRANTSACTIVE GRANTS1. We are Veterans Too: Women’s Experiences in the U.S. Military, National Endowment forthe Humanities, Dialogues on the Experience of War, (Preparatory Program Staff; PI: Dr.Sarah Myers, Messiah College), 2020-20217
COMPLETED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS1. Minimal Standards of Adequacy: Health Care in Modern U.S. Prisons, Rockefeller ArchiveCenter, Research Stipend to develop book project (Principal Investigator), 2019-202. Minimal Standards of Adequacy: Health Care in Modern U.S. Prisons, Friends of thePrinceton University Library, Research Stipend to develop book project (PrincipalInvestigator), 2019-203. Warrior Chorus: American Odyssey, National Endowment for the Humanities (RegionalCenter Scholar; PI: Dr. Peter Meineck, New York University), 2019-20204. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of SMART Hospitals, Pan American Health Organization (CoInvestigator; PI: Dr. Alejandro Arrieta, FIU), 2017-195. War and Healing: A Century of Veterans Reintegration, National Endowment for theHumanities (Principal Investigator), 2018-196. Interdisciplinary Working Group on Health Care, History, and the Humanities, Office of theProvost Humanities Research Initiative, (Consultant; PI: Dr. Alexandra Cornelius, FIU),2018-197. War and Health: Veterans’ Policies and Perspectives, Florida International University, Officeof the Provost, Humanities Research Initiative, (Principal Investigator), 2016-178. Bridging the Gap: Linking History PhD Training to Non Academic Employment, NationalEndowment for the Humanities, Next Generation Planning Grant, (Co-PI; Co-PIs: Dr.Kenneth Lipartito and Dr. April Merleaux, FIU), 2016-179. Talking Service, Florida Humanities Council, (Project Director), 2015, 201610. Quinn Fellow, Doris G. Quinn Foundation, 2011-1211. Hugh Davis Graham Award, Institute for Political History, 2010-201112. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, Columbia University, 2009, 201013. General and Mrs. M. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, U.S. Army Military HistoryInstitute, 200814. Scholarship to attend Columbia University Center for Oral History Summer Institute, 2005GRANT PROPOSALS UNDER REVIEW OR NOT FUNDED1. Minimal Standards of Adequacy: Health Care in U.S. Prisons, National Institutes ofHealth/National Library of Medicine Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health(G13), [submitted 2020]8
2. War, Peace, and Readjustment: Community-Based Care in Post-Vietnam America, CarnegieCorporation of New York (Project Director) [submitted 2018, denied funding]3. Leveraging Policies for Organizational Sustainability: Building Housing and Fostering aCulture of Health in the Rural U.S. South, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (PrincipalInvestigator) [submitted 2016, denied funding]4. Service to Scholar: Bridge program for student veterans, National Endowment for theHumanities (Project Director) [submitted 2016, denied funding]5. Impact of Reducing Low Income Pool Funds in Florida, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(Co-Investigator) [submitted 2015, denied funding]SERVICEPROFESSIONAL SERVICEExhibition Review Committee member, “Do the Best for Our Soldiers”: University ofCalifornia Medical Service in World War I, University of California/Calisphere DigitalExhibition, 2019National Endowment for the Humanities, Dialogues on the Experience of War grant applicationreviewer, 2018Society for Military History 2018 Annual Meeting Program Committee Member, 2017Peer Reviewer for:1. Public Health Reports, 20202. University of Pennsylvania Press, 20203. American Journal of Public Health, 2017, 2018, 20194. Journal of Military History, 20195. Journal of Policy History, 2014, 2017, 2018, 20196. Social Science History, 2017, 20197. Journal of Military, Veteran, and Family Health, 20178. The University Press of Florida, 2015DEPARTMENTAL SERVICEFIU Department of History, CommitteesGraduate Admissions Committee member, 2015Public History Working Group member, ex-officio member, 2018Search Committee member, Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Modern U.S. History, 2015,2019Library Committee member, 2014-159
FIU Department of History, PresentationsCoffee and Conversation with N.D.B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor ofHistory, (discussant), Department of History Graduate Student Association Conference, March29, 2019.“Applying for Grants and Securing Research Funding,” Department of History graduate studentprofessionalization seminar, Florida International University, November 9, 2018.“The Ins and Outs of Conference Presentations,” Department of History graduate studentprofessionalization seminar, Florida International University, February 16, 2018; October 9,2015.“Teaching Writing: Offering Constructive Feedback,” graduate student professionalizationseminar, Florida International University, Department of History, September 29, 2017.FIU Department of Health Policy and Management, Committees and ServiceMPH Graduate Committee member, 2017Assisted with development of Health Systems Research doctoral program, 2018-19Search Committee member, Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Health Policy andManagement, 2015UNIVERSITY SERVICEUniversity CommitteesFlorida International University, University Graduate School, Dissertation Advisor StatusEvaluation Committee, representative of the Steven J. Green School of International and PublicAffairs, 2020Florida International University, Office of the Provost, Evaluating Teaching Project, Departmentof History committee member, 2018-20Presentations for FIU CommunityHistorians, Archives, and Qualitative Research,” Professor Nazafe Ganapati’s EmpiricalMethods in Public Administration graduate seminar, FIU, March 2, 2016; March 17, 20202020 Faculty Innovation for Student Success Showcase (panelist presenting on a Peer-to-PeerTeaching Workshop organized by the Department of History), Center for the Advancement ofTeaching workshop, February 13, 2020Public discussion of Smithsonian Lessons and Legacies of World War I Poster Series (panelist),FIU Green Libraries, February 12, 2020.10
Humanities Based Programming for Veterans: Report on a University-Community Partnership,Public Humanities Seminar sponsored by The Humanities Edge, an MDC-FIU Pathway Programsupported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, November 18, 2019.Grant Writing Workshop, 2019 Faculty Summer Institute (panelist), The Humanities Edge, anMDC-FIU Pathway Program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, May 3, 2019.Seeking Funding in the Humanities (panelist), Office to Advance Women, Equity, and Diversity,Florida International University, November 2, 2018.“Nurturing Growth in Those Empty Spaces": Blackness and Multiculturalism in AIDS Education(discussant), African American and Diaspora Studies Work-in-Progress Series, FloridaInternational University, October 23, 2018.Tips for Tenure and the Third-year Review (panel member), Faculty Mentoring Program andSteven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University,November 9, 2017.TEACHINGCOURSES DEVELOPED/TAUGHT1. History of U.S. Health Policy2. Public Health and Medicine in U.S. History3. Public History: Theory and Practice4. History of U.S. Health and Society5. American History Since 18776. Health Policy Analysis7. Health Systems Research Readings Seminar8. Prisons, Punishment, PowerMEMBERSHIPSAmerican Association for the History of MedicineAssociation for the Study of African American Life and HistoryAmerican Historical AssociationOrganization of American HistoriansSociety for Military HistoryPUBLIC ENGAGEMENT/MEDIA“Behind bars, in tight quarters, Miami inmates and officers alike dread coronavirus spread”(quoted) April 4, 2020“Floridians with loved ones in prison fear lightning spread of coronavirus behind bars” (quoted)April 2, 2020“Kids’ increasing screen time” W Radio Miami (interview), March 20, 2019.11
What does a historian of health and medicine do? Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim 5th AnnualWertheim Conference, “How to Become a Health Professional” (public presentation for youthfair) September 20, 2016.“The Technicality of Fort Lauderdale’s Homeless Feeding Ban” WLRN, South Florida (quoted),December 2, 2014.“Body Politics: the History of Health Care Policy” All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU,Columbus, Ohio (interview) January 30, 2014.“Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower” History Talk, Ohio State University (interview), March 20,2014.“Saying Goodbye to Walter Reed” Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio (interview), July27, 2011.12
Florida International University Department of History, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs Department of Health Policy & Management, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work 11200 SW 8th St., AHC5-449, Miami, FL 33199 jadler@fiu.edu 305-348-7968
