Ally Robidoux
Candidate, M.A. History (2025)
- B.A. History (杏吧原创 University)
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Current Program: M.A. History (2025)
Degrees and Institution:
B.A. (杏吧原创 University)
Supervisors:
Academic Interests:
History of medicine, social history, British history, Victorian London, history from below, class, nineteenth-century professionalization of medicine, disease
| Publications and Current Projects: |
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| Robidoux, Ally. “From the Tomb to the Table: Resurrection and Dissection in the 1820s,” Historically Modern 3, 2026. Robidoux, Ally. 鈥淭he Function and Social Perception of Tattoos in Ancient Egypt and Other Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations.鈥 Corvus 14, 2024, 49-67. |
| Conference Contributions: |
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| Robidoux, Ally. 鈥(Un)seen and Unpaid: The Pauper Nurses of Victorian Workhouse Infirmaries.” Paper presented at Underhill Colloquium, Ottawa, Ontario, February 27, 2026. |
| Description of Research: |
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| My thesis focuses on the pauper nurses of Victorian workhouses infirmaries. These unpaid and untrained women were workhouse inmates assigned to care for patients to help keep the workhouse’s operational costs low. My research explores how pauper nurses were more than just the precursor to modern nursing, often exemplified at the time by Florence Nightingale鈥檚 lady nurses. Pauper nurses also represent a unique facet of history from below because their voices are not well represented, yet they navigated the boundary-blurring world of the infirmary where men, women, and children of the poor and working classes intermingled. |