Melanie Beals Goan

Melanie Beals Goan is professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, but has lived in Lexington, Kentucky since 1994. She earned a B. A. in history from Slippery Rock University and a M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Kentucky. Her research interests and teaching focus include twentieth century U. S. history, Kentucky history, gender, and the history of health care. In 2008, she published Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press). Her second book, published by the University Press of Kentucky, is called A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote.