Amy C. Sullivan, PhD
FECOHP Oral Historian
Amy is an oral historian, writer, and professor who teaches U.S. histories of drugs, medicine, race, gender, and childhood at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Her oral history projects highlight narratives rooted in social change, community, and healing. Her book, Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) uses oral history interviews she conducted to explore the complexity of America’s opioid epidemic through the lives of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. She has worked as an oral historian and researcher for Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, The Bakken Museum, the National Library of Medicine, and other projects for community groups around the U.S.. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.