2018 Schmidt Symposium

Jessica L. Adler is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University. She is a historian of U.S. health, social, welfare, and disability policy; war and society; and American political development. She combines all of these interests in her first book Burdens of War: Creating the United States Veterans Health System (Johns Hopkins, 2017), about the World War I-era origins of the nation’s largest integrated health care system. Her work has been published in the Journal of American History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health, among other scholarly journals, as well as in The Washington Post, The Hill, and The Miami Herald. Her projects have been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine, and the Florida Humanities Council.