Evan Sullivan
@evanpsullivan.bsky.social
PhD | Assistant Prof of History at SUNY ADK | Historian of disability, gender, & war | book: Constructing Disability after the Great War | Father, husband, & cat dad | posts are my own
I’m at the Saratoga Book Festival this evening, but beforehand I stopped into @northshirebooks.bsky.social, saw my book on the shelf (first time that has happened), and signed a couple copies.
October 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I’m at the Saratoga Book Festival this evening, but beforehand I stopped into @northshirebooks.bsky.social, saw my book on the shelf (first time that has happened), and signed a couple copies.
First time playing live since high school. Only this time I got to play with my dad and brother, I have more gray hairs, and I am not playing post-hardcore music.
September 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
First time playing live since high school. Only this time I got to play with my dad and brother, I have more gray hairs, and I am not playing post-hardcore music.
Spent the morning researching at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, reading through US surgeon journals from the Western Front.
July 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Spent the morning researching at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, reading through US surgeon journals from the Western Front.
Today was my last day at the Barbara Bates Center at UPenn’s School of Nursing. Great experience, wonderful help from the archivists! Tomorrow I’ll be in the archive at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia!
Image: me standing in front of the sign for Claire M. Fagen Hall, School of Nursing.
Image: me standing in front of the sign for Claire M. Fagen Hall, School of Nursing.
July 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Today was my last day at the Barbara Bates Center at UPenn’s School of Nursing. Great experience, wonderful help from the archivists! Tomorrow I’ll be in the archive at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia!
Image: me standing in front of the sign for Claire M. Fagen Hall, School of Nursing.
Image: me standing in front of the sign for Claire M. Fagen Hall, School of Nursing.
At the Museum of the American Revolution, the temporary flag exhibit has a flag from the Massachusetts Militia, the same militia, though different regiment, in which my 6th great grandfather Captain Benjamin Barnes served.
July 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
At the Museum of the American Revolution, the temporary flag exhibit has a flag from the Massachusetts Militia, the same militia, though different regiment, in which my 6th great grandfather Captain Benjamin Barnes served.
Today, I started my first research trip since publishing my book. I was awarded the Karen Buhler-Wilkerson fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing archives, the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
July 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Today, I started my first research trip since publishing my book. I was awarded the Karen Buhler-Wilkerson fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing archives, the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
It has been at least a few weeks, but I finally got the MX6 out for a drive today
June 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It has been at least a few weeks, but I finally got the MX6 out for a drive today
From last week: planted two Italian plum trees, a honeycrisp tree, and two blueberry bushes. Hoping for success!
May 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
From last week: planted two Italian plum trees, a honeycrisp tree, and two blueberry bushes. Hoping for success!
Some scenes from yesterday when we celebrated our amazing students, the graduating class of 2025 #sunyadkgrad and when I received my chancellor’s award for excellence in scholarship and creative activities from Dr. Duffy!
May 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Some scenes from yesterday when we celebrated our amazing students, the graduating class of 2025 #sunyadkgrad and when I received my chancellor’s award for excellence in scholarship and creative activities from Dr. Duffy!
Just three professors with their Chancellor’s awards. THANK YOU Wendy and Val. You will always be two of my favorite professors and you are amazing colleagues. I am grateful every day to be able to go to work alongside you.
May 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just three professors with their Chancellor’s awards. THANK YOU Wendy and Val. You will always be two of my favorite professors and you are amazing colleagues. I am grateful every day to be able to go to work alongside you.
So grateful for my colleagues’ support, nominating me for the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Thanks especially to Val and Wendy for the nomination, and Rick Fogarty, Kim Nielsen, and Mike Rembis for writing on my behalf!
May 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
So grateful for my colleagues’ support, nominating me for the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Thanks especially to Val and Wendy for the nomination, and Rick Fogarty, Kim Nielsen, and Mike Rembis for writing on my behalf!
From the American Journal of Nursing, April 1917.
May 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
From the American Journal of Nursing, April 1917.
Molly fully enjoying her caturday
April 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Molly fully enjoying her caturday
Underneath the design is the quote from Erich Maria Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front, “A hospital alone shows what war is.”
April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Underneath the design is the quote from Erich Maria Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front, “A hospital alone shows what war is.”
Then we went with a rod of Asclepius but the snake is constricted by bits of barbed wire from the WF. The symbol was inspired by a quote from Ellen La Motte’s book, in which she writes, “was it not all a dead-end occupation, nursing back to health men to be patched up and returned to the trenches…?”
April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Then we went with a rod of Asclepius but the snake is constricted by bits of barbed wire from the WF. The symbol was inspired by a quote from Ellen La Motte’s book, in which she writes, “was it not all a dead-end occupation, nursing back to health men to be patched up and returned to the trenches…?”
New addition to the World War I tattoo montage: Amanda added the Dewey decimal number for my book in the John Singer Sargent/Gassed & DaVinci/Vitruvian Man piece.
April 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New addition to the World War I tattoo montage: Amanda added the Dewey decimal number for my book in the John Singer Sargent/Gassed & DaVinci/Vitruvian Man piece.
March 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
6) frosted and ready to eat
6) frosted and ready to eat
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
6) frosted and ready to eat
6) frosted and ready to eat
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
5) out of the oven
5) out of the oven
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
5) out of the oven
5) out of the oven
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
4) sliced and into the fridge overnight
4) sliced and into the fridge overnight
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
4) sliced and into the fridge overnight
4) sliced and into the fridge overnight
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
3) rolled and ready to slice
3) rolled and ready to slice
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
3) rolled and ready to slice
3) rolled and ready to slice
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
2) cinnamon sugar butter spread over dough
2) cinnamon sugar butter spread over dough
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
2) cinnamon sugar butter spread over dough
2) cinnamon sugar butter spread over dough
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
1) dough rolled out
1) dough rolled out
February 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Homemade cinnamon rolls from start to finish:
1) dough rolled out
1) dough rolled out