Mab Segrest (NHC Fellow, 2017–18)

Project Title

Administrations of Lunacy: Race, Psychiatry and Georgia's State Hospital

Connecticut College

Fellowship Work Summary, 2017–18

Mab Segrest completed the introdution and six chapters of her her book Administrations of Lunacy: Race, Psychiatry and Georgiaʼs State Hospital (The New Press, 2019). She also completed an essay for South: A Scholarly Journal.

Genre > Monographs

Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

History / Medicine / History of Medicine / Hospitals / Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis / Racism /

Genre > Interviews

Between the Covers, Fall 2020: Fellows Discuss Their Recent Publications

Humanities / Environmental History / History of Literature / African History / Psychiatry / Poetry / Anthropology /

Genre > Humanities Moments

Sometimes You Just Need to Keep Reading

Literature / History / Gender and Sexuality / Racial Segregation / Reading / Lesbians / Homosexuality /

Genre > Podcasts

Mab Segrest, “A Metahistory of Suffering: Race, Lunacy, and Psychiatry in Milledgeville, Georgia”

History / Medicine / Patients / Psychiatry / Mental Illness / Racial Discrimination / American South /