Barbra Mann Wall

Barbra Mann Wall's research involves the history of Catholic hospitals and sister-nurses as well as oral histories of retired nurses. Her work illustrates the gendered story of hospital establishments and the nursing profession. The overriding theoretical foundation is the interplay between religious and secular institutions and the place of that interplay in American social history. Her recent work addresses the history of disaster nursing in the Southwest and the range of discourses people drew upon when interpreting disasters of the past. Her research has been utilized in the classroom and in other academic and public settings.