First Sergeant Rance Richardson takes a "break" along the Nima-Nima trail on Bougainville in the South Pacific, April 4, 1944.

Dwyer Studies Psychiatric Care for African American Soldiers

How did race affect the psychiatric care offered soldiers in the "Jim Crow" American army of World War II? Were there race-based differences in diagnoses and treatments? What happened to troubled black soldiers once the war ended? Ellen Dwyer has begun to tackle these and related questions in a new research project. Her first published work on the topic has appeared in the Journal of Medicine and the Allied Sciences (April 2006).