peer-reviewed articles
Udodiri R. Okwandu, “The War on Postpartum Psychosis: Elizabeth B. Davis, Voluntary Sterilisation, and the Fight Against Poverty in Black Harlem, 1960–1978,” Social History of Medicine, January 2026, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf105
Udodiri R. Okwandu, “Violence and the (Black) Brain: Biomedicalizing in the Era of Law and Order Politics, 1960-1975,” Special Issue, History of Psychiatry, forthcoming, 2027.
book chapters
The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice, edited by The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2025)
- “On Mothers Who Kill and the Racialization of Postpartum Mental Illness” by Udodiri R. Okwandu
- “‘If she were white and insured, would she have died?’”: Contextualizing the 2022 Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Report” by Udodiri R. Okwandu
Udodiri R. Okwandu, “Obstetric Authority, Race, and Reproduction in the United States” in A Cultural History of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Modern Age, 1860 – 1945, edited by Miriam Rich and Elizabeth O’Brian, (London, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing), forthcoming, fall 2026.
Udodiri R. Okwandu, “Racialized Health in the Nineteenth Century,” in The Cambridge History of Medicine, Vol. 5: Nineteenth-Century Medicine, edited by Rana Hogarth and Projit Mukharji, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming , 2028.
public scholarship
Udodiri R. Okwandu, “Silenced Suffering: The Historical and Contemporary Plight of Black Women with Uterine Fibroids.” Nursing Clio, August 7, 2024, https://nursingclio.org/2024/08/07/silenced-suffering-the-historical-and-contemporary-plight-of-black-women-with-uterine-fibroids/
Udodiri R. Okwandu, ““If they were white and insured, would they have died?”: Contextualizing the 2022 Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Report,” Nursing Clio, March 15, 2023, https://nursingclio.org/2023/03/15/if-they-were-white-and-insured-would-they-have-died-contextualizing-the-2022-texas-maternal-mortality-and-morbidity-report/
book reviews
Udodiri R. Okwandu, Administration of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at Milledgeville Asylum by Mab Segrest. New York, NY: The New Press, 2020. 416 pp. ISBN 9781620972977, Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences (2022), 58: 108 – 110. https://doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1002/jhbs.22140