Assistant Professor
Jessica Borsellino
Assistant Professor
Contact Info:
Campus: McNichols Campus
Building: Jane & Walter O. Briggs Building
Room: 326
Phone: 313-993-1121
Email: jborsel@udmercy.edu
Areas of Expertise:
United States History 1861-1939
History of medicine
History of nursing
Indigenous history of North America
Kiowa history
Degrees
- Ph.D., History, Duke University
- Bachelor of Arts, History and Anthropology, University of Alabama
Biography
Jessica J. Borsellino is an assistant professor and a mother of two from Augusta, Ga. She joined the Detroit Mercy faculty in 2025 and teaches United States History since 1877. She is also developing new courses in the history of medicine and Native American history.
Borsellino's research concerns health and healing in 19th and 20th century Native America. Her book project, To Take Care of My People: Men, Women, and Medicine in Kiowa Communities, 1867-1940, is a study of healing practices in use among Kiowas, members of a Great Plains tribal nation, during their first 80 years of reservation life.