Jonathan Sadowsky

Chair, Department of History and Theodore J. Castele Professor, Professor

Contact

jonathan.sadowsky@case.edu
216.368.2622
Mather House 209
Office Hours: by Zoom, by appointment

Dr. Sadowsky’s main research interest is the history of medicine, especially psychiatry, in Africa and the United States. He teaches courses in African history, history of medicine and the body, and historical method and cultural studies.

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria

 

Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy

The Empire of Depression: A New History

 

 

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