Hailey Davis

Hailey Davis (she/her) is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine. Before coming to Yale, Hailey graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in History from Harvard College and worked numerous jobs: as a seventh grade English Language Arts teacher, in a center for entrepreneurship at a business school, and as a psychiatric technician at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Since coming to Yale, Hailey has explored her interest in the history of psychiatry, as well as health politics, the history of paranoia, media studies, sexuality studies, histories of surveillance, rural healthcare, and fiction. She has worked as a Strategic Initiatives Fellow for the Yale Alumni Association, as a Holmes Workshop co-coordinator for her department, and as a teaching assistant in Yale undergraduate courses. She lives near Yale University with her cats, Leo and Pearl, and enjoys keeping a journal, reading, and triathlons.