Like my work and my life, my writing resists neat boundaries. I have published peer reviewed articles, journalism, book chapters, and poetry. Writing across different forms engages different thought processes and analytical skills, all of which I find necessary to do my best work.
Selected Articles
Gatrall, C.E. (Forthcoming Summer 2027) Providing Safe Nursing Care for Ethnic People of Color: Marie Branch and Antiracist Nursing in the long 1970s. Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Auerbach, S., Lanshaw, N., Gatrall, C.E., Mehra, R., McCoy-Harms, S., Franck, L. (2026) Approaches to Evaluation of Abortion Training Programs: A Scoping Review. Contraception. https://www.contraceptionjournal.org/article/S0010-7824(26)00149-6/abstract
Gatrall, C.E., McCoy-Harms, S., Auerbach, S., Lanshaw, N., Mehra, R., Franck, L. (June 2026). Doulas and Acompañantes: Non-Clinical Abortion Support after Dobbs. Social Science and Medicine – Qualitative Research in Health, 9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2026.100732
Gatrall, C.E. (February 23, 2026) Nursing Clio. “Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce.
Gatrall, C.E. (2024). The Work of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Nursing Literature, 1970-1985. Nursing Outlook, (72) 5, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102223.
Gatrall, C. E. (2022). After Fifty Years; Alums Anticipate the Impacts of a U.S. Supreme Court Decision that could Overturn Roe v. Wade. Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly. https://magazine.mtholyoke.edu/mthaq/summer_2022/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1805601&app=false#articleId1805601
Gatrall, C. E. (2021). The Rise of the Gynecological Teaching Associate. Lady Science. https://www.ladyscience.com/features/rise-of-gynecological-teaching-associate-2021
Walker, RK, Dillard-Wright, J, Leblanc, R, & Gatrall, C.E. (November 28, 2021). We will never meaningfully transform research-focused doctoral education in nursing without addressing who has power over its design and implementation. Medium. https://rachelkwalker.medium.com/we-will-never-meaningfully-transform-research-focused-doctoraleducation-in-nursing-without-fd5103ffb4d7
Gatrall, C.E. (October 29, 2020). “Marie Branch and the Power of Nursing.” Nursing Clio. https://nursingclio.org/2020/10/29/marie-branch-and-the-power-of-nursing/
McLemore, M.R., Tober, D., Stern, L., Asiodu, I., Eagen-Torkko, M., Wright, M., Draughon, Moret, J., Saint Louis, H.D., Hardeman, R., Howard, G., Tillman, S., Gatrall, C.E., Knutson, M. (2019, February 26). No Deal: Providers Sound Off on Trump’s Domestic Gag Rule. Ms. https://msmagazine.com/2019/02/26/no-deal-providers- sound-off-trumps-domestic-gag-rule/
Gatrall, C. E. (2018, October 29). Context Matters: A Case for Safe Staffing as Massachusetts Goes to the Polls. Radical Nurses. https://radicalnurses.com/2018/10/29/context-matters-a-case-for-safe-staffing-as-massachusetts-goes-to-the-polls/
Book Chapters
Gatrall, C. E. (2022). Madeleine Knows Best: Race, Culture, and the Discipline of Nursing. In J. Dillard-Wright, J. Hopkins-Walsh, & B. Brown (Eds.), Nursing a Radical Imagination: Moving from Theory and History to Action and Alternate Futures. Routledge.
Gatrall, C. E. (2021). Death and the Mother: Integrating Death into Pagan Family Life. In N. Jordan & S. Whedon (Eds.), Pagan, Goddess, Mother. Demeter Press.
Selected Creative Work
Gatrall, C.E. “‘Woman in the Second Pandemic August – Chequessett’ and ‘Sanctuary, Omega.’” Tendon Magazine, November 2022. https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magazine/sanctuary/two-poems/.