My Research

I am a doctoral student, funded by both the Wellcome Trust and the Clarendon Fund, studying history at the University of Oxford.  My research investigates the emergence of the myth of ‘Patient Zero’ in the North American AIDS epidemic.

I am particularly interested in hearing from anyone who was acquainted with Gaétan Dugas, as one of my research goals is to broaden our very limited understanding of a man who was posthumously and unjustly blamed for causing a continental epidemic.