Email: rathge@bc.edu
Education:
B.S. University of Dayton, 2006
M.A. University of Cincinnati - U.S. History, 2009
Thesis: "Swill Milk in the 'Metropolis of Malt': Cincinnati Physicians and the Fight to End Distillery Dairies, 1850-1920"
Research Interests:
I am particularly interested in late nineteenth and twentieth century United States' history with a specific focus on the social and cultural history of "drugs" and narcotic substances, especially with regard to their association with urban vice and underground economies, their paths to demonization and criminalization, and lasting trends in the modes and practices used by government, law, medicine, and society to shape and control them over the past hundred and fifty years.