Personal Statement:

April Haynes is the author of Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-century America (Chicago, 2015), which received the James F. Broussard prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Dissertation Title:Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary ViceFaculty Advisor(s):Patricia Cohen