Conceptualizing Mental and Physical (Ill) Health

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians 20
Coordinating Council for Women in History 21
Saturday, January 10, 2026: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Kimball Room (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
Papers:
Naming Tragedy: How Female Autobiographers in the 18th Century Conceptualized Mental Illness
Emilee NK Robbins, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Universal Lessons from Historical Periods: Marian P. Whitney and Jane Addams’s Strategies for Maintaining Mental Well-Being, 1905–30
Sheryl Gordon, Molloy University
The Health of Identity: Erik H. Erikson, Gender, and Childhood
Sophia DeLeonibus, Yale University
“I Felt Wild the Other Day When I Caught a Breath”: Getting Away with Gilded Age New York’s Female Elite
Yael Tara Merkin, Harvard University
Comment:
Leisa D. Meyer, College of William and Mary
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