Doctoral Fellow, 2010-11

Jodie Boyer Hatlem is interested in the relationship between religion, law, and psychiatry. She is currently writing a dissertation entitled Sin and Sanity in 19th Century America: it is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between legal, medical, and religious accounts of the will in the U.S. in the nineteenth century and of how these shaped a notion of the default legal person. Jodie’s research describes how various pathological states of the will, known collectively as moral insanities, were understood in the context of a complex religious background in the nineteenth century and involved wide variations on the Protestant concept of the bondage of the human will. Jodie completed a Master of Divinity degree at Duke, where she studied the history of American Christianity and theological ethics. Her undergraduate degree in European History was earned at Calvin College. She has presented and published on several ethical and historical topics including eugenics, the history of psychiatry, Christian-Jewish relations, nonviolence, power, Mennonite historiography, policing and the law, and race and Christian missions.

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