Doctoral Student at University of Southern California
About
Nic John Ramos is a doctoral student at the University of Southern California in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. His work explores race, gender, and sexuality at the intersections of healthcare and urban policy in the 1960s and 1970s. His writing and research has been supported by the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation as well as grants from the LBJ Presidential Library, UCLA Darling Biomedical Library, and the Huntington Library. He has served as the managing editor of American Quarterly.
Current Work:
"Worthy of Care: Comprehensive Healthcare and King-Drew Medical Center" examines the history of an iconic public hospital built in Watts (Los Angeles) and its use of federal healthcare policy called "comprehensive healthcare," which gave birth to three new medical disciplines in the 1960s & 70s: Community Medicine, Community Mental Health, and Emergency Medicine. Ramos explores how health systems built to augur greater health inclusion for poor citizens in this era actually created more complexities than solutions by the 1980s.
Research Area(s)
- History
- Urban Planning and Urban Studies
- American Studies
