Kelly O'Reilly

Kelly O’Reilly is a fourth-year graduate student in twentieth-century American history, specializing in the history of medicine and the history of social policy.  Her research, which she has presented at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, focuses on the history of American health care policy and the welfare state.  She is currently working on her dissertation, “The Health of the Poor: Federal Experiments in Community Health Care in the War on Poverty,” which explores the community health center movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In 2015, she received a College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award to conduct dissertation research at the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.  She also received a Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid for research at the Rockefeller Archive Center.  She works with Professor Sarah Igo and Professor Gary Gerstle.