Jonathan D. Riddle
@jonathandriddle.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and religion | Health humanities coordinator | Notre Dame PhD | Same handle everywhere
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
Book mss: The Gospel of Health: How Science, Religion, and Capitalism Shaped Wellness in America
I'm thrilled that my new health humanities minor is now live, and even more thrilled that the incomparable @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social helped launch the program by delivering its inaugural lecture!
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
Health Humanities Minor Launches at Seaver College with Inaugural Guest Lecture
Seaver College has launched a new heath humanities minor available to undergraduate students beginning this 2025 fall semester. Jonathan Riddle serves as the program's coordinator.
seaver.pepperdine.edu
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm thrilled that my new health humanities minor is now live, and even more thrilled that the incomparable @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social helped launch the program by delivering its inaugural lecture!
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
🗃️ #histmed
seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...
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Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!
I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us!
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Can't wait to talk FIT NATION at Pepperdine! Join us IRL in Malibu on Tuesday for my public talk!
I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
I am so excited to be heading to 🌴 Malibu 🌴 next week to spend time with students + faculty @ Pepperdine U and to give a public talk about my book, FIT NATION, as part of the launch of the new Health Humanities minor. If you’re in SoCal, I hope you’ll join us!
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trum...
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm so excited to welcome @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social to campus next week to help launch our new minor!
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
The lecture is open to the public, so feel free to join if you're in the area! You can buy her book while here, too.
What was supposed to take one year has now taken five years (and counting) due to various obstacles.
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The ongoing fight to replace racist monuments in the US: ‘requires a lot of perseverance’
Since a reckoning brought awareness to problematic statues across the country, the road to replacing them has been slow and arduous
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What was supposed to take one year has now taken five years (and counting) due to various obstacles.
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
But artist Vinnie Bagwell is still proceeding with plans to install her "Victory" statue where James Marion Sims's statue once stood. #histmed 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Famous trainer Jillian Michaels announces support for MAHA:
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
Jillian Michaels Backs RFK Jr.’s Health Movement - NewsBreak
Fitness trainer Jillian Michaels has supported Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement. She
www.newsbreak.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Famous trainer Jillian Michaels announces support for MAHA:
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
“[What] we’re not going to get from the government, you can create in your own life by taking agency.”
My book on c19 health reform explores how agency became the watchword in US health. #histmed 🗃️
www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-c...
“The foundation [of the curriculum] is traditional medicine but enhanced with the humanities and the arts to improve the delivery of care—so we improve on how we [act] with patients and how we partner with patients,” says Makhija.
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School
The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.
time.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“The foundation [of the curriculum] is traditional medicine but enhanced with the humanities and the arts to improve the delivery of care—so we improve on how we [act] with patients and how we partner with patients,” says Makhija.
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
#histmed
time.com/7303692/alic...
The EEOC is suing the Mayo Clinic for refusing an employee's request for a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate.
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Mayo Clinic refused employee's COVID-19 vaccine exemption request, lawsuit says
A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges the Mayo Clinic violated federal law when it refused a security guard's request to be exempt from getting the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs.
www.cbsnews.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The EEOC is suing the Mayo Clinic for refusing an employee's request for a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate.
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
It gets less fanfare these days, but folks are still processing and fighting over pandemic issues like mandates, religious liberty, etc.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates.
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
July 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Do any of you brilliant #histmed teachers know of a nice narrative introduction to early nineteenth-century medicine? Something like a case study of a doctor or a patient? I'm looking for something for undergraduates.
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
I have a separate story for medicine and slavery.🗃️
On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On the fiction that we're in total control of our health.
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Building on Nancy Tomes's history of patients becoming savvy consumers. #histmed 🗃️
hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Just like Christian bodybuilding, Christian diet culture abides.
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
Opinion | The Unrepentant Return of Christian Diet Culture
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Just like Christian bodybuilding, Christian diet culture abides.
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
I would just add that its history stretches further back than the 1970s and Oral Roberts. In fact, I'm writing about its manifestation in the 1830s! 🗃️
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
American Christians have been blending bodybuilding and faith for more than a century. Here's a check-in with how they're faring these days, with insights from @paulputz.bsky.social. 🗃️
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
Faith, Fitness, and the New Gospel of #Gains: Inside the Conflicted World of Christian Bodybuilders
Christian bodybuilders and fitfluencers are ascending to greater heights of visibility—and facing compelling questions about lust, idolatry, and purpose.
www.menshealth.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
American Christians have been blending bodybuilding and faith for more than a century. Here's a check-in with how they're faring these days, with insights from @paulputz.bsky.social. 🗃️
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a651...
Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.
Courtesy of Andrew Dunning, Zotero and other CSL-supporting reference managers now have full support for Chicago Manual 18th edition: www.zotero.org/styles?q=Chi... (there's a dizzying variety bc CMoS gives you a lot of choices www.zotero.org/styles?q=id%... is your most generic option)
Zotero Style Repository
www.zotero.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Big news for #skystorians 🗃️: Zotero now supports CMOS 18.
A new survey shows that "congregation switching and ideological sorting" have increased among church-goers since the pandemic.
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Post-COVID, church-shifting has created more ideological agreement – Baptist News Global
The COVID pandemic facilitated a greater sorting of churchgoers into more ideological groups than before
baptistnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A new survey shows that "congregation switching and ideological sorting" have increased among church-goers since the pandemic.
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Is this just a correlation, or did pandemic-inspired reflection cause people to make a change in their religious lives? baptistnews.com/article/post...
Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!
Want to know how to not just write a scholarly text but make it into a manuscript that publishers actually want?
That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for.
Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for.
Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Make Your Manuscript Work
From the bestselling author of The Book Proposal Book, a practical, step-by-step approach to mastering the four pillars of scholarly writing for authors, editors, and publishing professionals
press.princeton.edu
June 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Based on how useful *The Book Proposal Book* was for me, I'm very much looking forward to this one!
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Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Is anyone working on the history of homeopathy? Or do you know scholars who have written about homeopathy recently? I could use some help... #histmed 🗃️
#histmed #skystorians: Do you have a favorite reading for introducing students to the *historical* nature of health and medicine?
i.e. It's not just the march of science, but context matters.
I find great snippets here and there, but I'm looking for a standalone reading. Case studies welcome. 🗃️
i.e. It's not just the march of science, but context matters.
I find great snippets here and there, but I'm looking for a standalone reading. Case studies welcome. 🗃️
June 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#histmed #skystorians: Do you have a favorite reading for introducing students to the *historical* nature of health and medicine?
i.e. It's not just the march of science, but context matters.
I find great snippets here and there, but I'm looking for a standalone reading. Case studies welcome. 🗃️
i.e. It's not just the march of science, but context matters.
I find great snippets here and there, but I'm looking for a standalone reading. Case studies welcome. 🗃️
Can anyone make out the missing word? 🗃️
Doctor reflecting on seeing poor dispensary patients during the day and then going to fancy parties with the wealthy at night.
"surroundings of wealth and the luxury have made me [something] for a time and moralize upon the different phases of human life."
Doctor reflecting on seeing poor dispensary patients during the day and then going to fancy parties with the wealthy at night.
"surroundings of wealth and the luxury have made me [something] for a time and moralize upon the different phases of human life."
June 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Can anyone make out the missing word? 🗃️
Doctor reflecting on seeing poor dispensary patients during the day and then going to fancy parties with the wealthy at night.
"surroundings of wealth and the luxury have made me [something] for a time and moralize upon the different phases of human life."
Doctor reflecting on seeing poor dispensary patients during the day and then going to fancy parties with the wealthy at night.
"surroundings of wealth and the luxury have made me [something] for a time and moralize upon the different phases of human life."
Do any #histsci #histmed #skystorians have experience researching at the National Library of Medicine? Do you know if they offer scanning services? 🗃️
June 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Do any #histsci #histmed #skystorians have experience researching at the National Library of Medicine? Do you know if they offer scanning services? 🗃️
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ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...
June 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...
June 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...
I wonder if this model could be generalized to work on nineteenth-century American handwriting more broadly?
This is a good use of AI: transcription of 2.3 million pages of manuscripts trained on 30k pages transcribed by hand
archives-20973928.hs-sites.com/ai-and-the-r...
archives-20973928.hs-sites.com/ai-and-the-r...
AI and the Revolutionary War Pension Files
archives-20973928.hs-sites.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I wonder if this model could be generalized to work on nineteenth-century American handwriting more broadly?
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PLEASE SHARE:
We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team.
We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration.
Come work with our great team!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team.
We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration.
Come work with our great team!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
June 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
PLEASE SHARE:
We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team.
We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration.
Come work with our great team!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
We just posted an ad for TWO research assistant positions on @pewresearch.org's religion team.
We expect a lot of applications so it's best to apply this week for full consideration.
Come work with our great team!
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...
As far as I can tell, collaboration has shaped the interaction of medicine and religion as much as secularization. Both strains weave their way through the history. 🗃️
"Georgetown Launches Faith-Health Commission To Strengthen Trust in Health Systems"
www.georgetown.edu/news/georget...
"Georgetown Launches Faith-Health Commission To Strengthen Trust in Health Systems"
www.georgetown.edu/news/georget...
New Faith-Health Project Aims To Increase Trust in Health Systems
The Global Health Institute's initiative will explore how collaborations between faith and health leaders can improve global health outcomes.
www.georgetown.edu
June 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
As far as I can tell, collaboration has shaped the interaction of medicine and religion as much as secularization. Both strains weave their way through the history. 🗃️
"Georgetown Launches Faith-Health Commission To Strengthen Trust in Health Systems"
www.georgetown.edu/news/georget...
"Georgetown Launches Faith-Health Commission To Strengthen Trust in Health Systems"
www.georgetown.edu/news/georget...
What are the chances a #skystorian has already visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to scan George Wood's transcribed diary? 🗃️
We really need a way to avoid repeating the same work over and over again.
discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-A...
We really need a way to avoid repeating the same work over and over again.
discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-A...
Description: George Bacon Wood diary :: Library Catalog
discover.hsp.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
What are the chances a #skystorian has already visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to scan George Wood's transcribed diary? 🗃️
We really need a way to avoid repeating the same work over and over again.
discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-A...
We really need a way to avoid repeating the same work over and over again.
discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-A...