She teaches courses on culture, women’s reproduction, social inequality, and deviance and social control. The recipient of a 2014 Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, Barnes-Brus is researching “Saviour of Her Sex”: The Lydia E. Pinkham Patent Medicine Company and the Construction of Female Health. She will be a Faculty Fellow for the ACM Newberry Seminar in the Humanities, “Novel Action: Literature, Society, and the Public Good” in the fall of 2016.