Karen Kruse Thomas received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina in 1999. She currently serves as associate director of the Reichelt Oral History Program at Florida State University, where she is leading a project on the history of medical education at FSU. Her book, “deluxe Jim Crow: the South and National Health Policy” is under contract with University of Georgia Press. She has published articles on the history of race and health care in Social Science and Medicine; the Journal of Southern History; the Journal of African American History, and Nursing History Review. She also published a contract history of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Minnesota in 2002.